The Gamecool Books podcast turns to The Amber Spyglass, the concluding volume in His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. Long-form discussions of the intertextual goodness branching out from the book in all directions, and of the depiction of consciousness at its heart, will be posted on a weekly-or-so basis, along with conversations with other fans and scholars. This page will also be updated with recommended additional reading to accompany our deep dive into Pullman's work. I welcome any questions or comments. Enjoy!
Ep 56: A Novel Answer
Ep 56: A Novel Answer
Ch 1 The Enchanted Sleeper
Ch 2 Balthamos and Baruch
Blake, America A Prophecy
Rilke, The Third Elegy
"The Man Who Walked with God: Philip Pullman's Metatron, the Biblical Enoch, and the Apocrypha," John Haydn Baker. In Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Barfield and Cox ed.
Ch 3 Scavengers
Ch 4 Ama and the Bats
Coleridge, "The Knight's Tomb"
Dickinson, "She lay as if at play"
Coleridge, "The Knight's Tomb"
Dickinson, "She lay as if at play"
Ep 58: Conversation with Leanna on BBC/HBO His Dark Materials
Ch 5 The Adamant Tower
Ch 6 Preemptive Absolution
Ch 7 Mary, Alone
from Milton, Paradise Lost bk. I, III, VIII Ching, Wilhelm trans. and commentary
Ch 8 Vodka
Ch 10 Wheels
Ch 11 The Dragonflies
1 Kings 18
Joyce, "A Little Cloud," in Dubliners
Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"
1 Kings 18
Joyce, "A Little Cloud," in Dubliners
Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"
Ep 62: Conversation with Kat Sas
"A Sense of Darker Perspective"
"The Marauders" Ep 19 of the Reading, Writing, Rowling podcast
Ep 63: Conversation with Kris Swank
"The Child's Voyage and the Immram Tradition in Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman"
"A Sense of Darker Perspective"
"The Marauders" Ep 19 of the Reading, Writing, Rowling podcast
Ep 63: Conversation with Kris Swank
"The Child's Voyage and the Immram Tradition in Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman"
Ch 12 The Break
Ch 13 Tialys and Salmakia
Spenser, Faerie Queene I.9 Blake, The Little Girl Lost
Ch 14 Know What It Is
Ch 15 The Forge
(and Stevens, The Snow Man)
Ch 16 The Intention Craft
Ch 17 Oil and Lacquer
Ch 18 The Suburbs of the Dead
Ch 19 Lyra and Her Death
Ch 20 Climbing
Ch 21 The Harpies
Dickinson, I gained it so Byron, Venice letter to John Murray Apr 2, 1817
God and Dust: Notes for a Study Day with the Bishop of Oxford, in Daemon Voices
Ch 22 The Whisperers
Ch 23 No Way Out
Milton, Paradise Lost bk. I
Millicent Lenz - Philip Pullman [essay/chapter in Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction]
As Lyra and Roger read of the scholars in the crypt at Jordan: requiescant in pace
Ch 24 Mrs Coulter in Geneva
Ch 25 Saint-Jean-Les-Eaux
Ezekiel 16 Donne, The Relic
"Writing Fantasy Realistically," essay in Daemon Voices
"Writing Fantasy Realistically," essay in Daemon Voices
Ch 26 The Abyss
Ch 27 The Platform
Blake, America: A Prophecy Marvell, The Garden
Blake, Jerusalem plate 37 and MS variations
Ch 28 Midnight
Ch 29 The Battle on the Plain
Keats, Ode to a Nightingale Blake, Jerusalem plate 37 and MS variations
Ch 30 The Clouded Mountain
Ch 31 Authority’s End
Ch 32 Morning
Ch 33 Marzipan
Blake, America: A Prophecy
Ch 34 There Is Now
Ch 35 Over the Hills and Far Away
"Over the Hills and Far Away," trad. (Or is it Led Zeppelin's?)God and Dust: Notes for a Study Day with the Bishop of Oxford, in Daemon Voices
Ch 36 The Broken Arrow
Ch 37 The Dunes
Valery, Folliot trans. The Graveyard by the Sea and Pullman discussing Brassens' Supplique on Radio 4
Ch 38 The Botanic Garden
Pullman's Acknowledgments
