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Hardback. New. Three recent and commercially successful series of novels employ and adapt the resources of popular fantasy fiction to create visions of religious identity: J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter books, Phillip Pullmans Dark Materials and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Left Behind series. The act of creating fantasy counter-worlds naturally involves all three stories in the creation of what Mike Gray terms transfigurations of transcendence: hopeful albeit paradoxical encodings of the ambiguous, non-observable reality whose primary locus in modern society is the societally extra-systemic human individual. Popular fantasy fiction turns out to involve acts of world-creation that are inherently religious and inherently paradoxical.A substantive examination shows that all three are involved in more or less intentional re-narrations of traditional Christian beliefs and narratives. The "atheist" His Dark Materials series does not deny but re-imagines the Christian visions of selfhood; the…
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Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind: Fantasy Rhetorics and Contemporary Visions of Religious Identity Tapa dura - 2013
de Mike Gray
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- Título Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind: Fantasy Rhetorics and Contemporary Visions of Religious Identity
- Autor Mike Gray
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 308
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- Fecha de publicación 2013-11
- ISBN 9783525604472 / 3525604475
- Peso 1.36 libras (0.62 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.29 x 6.38 x 1.02 pulgadas (23.60 x 16.21 x 2.59 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
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Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind: Fantasy Rhetorics and Contemporary Visions of Religious Identity
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Transfiguring Transcendence in Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind
de Gray, Mike
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Nuevo
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9783525604472 / 3525604475
- Cantidad disponible
- 15
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Bristol, Connecticut, United States
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. 1st. hardcover. New. 104x16x152.
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EUR 149.60
EUR 3.71
enviando a USA