Demons and Modes of Their Representation in the Trilogy of His Dark Materials: The Relationship Between Human and Animal in the Specific Function of Shaping Human Identity Cover Image

Demoni i modusi njihova predstavljanja u trilogiji Njegove tamne tvari: odnos ljudskog i životinjskog u specifičnoj funkciji oblikovanja ljudskog identiteta
Demons and Modes of Their Representation in the Trilogy of His Dark Materials: The Relationship Between Human and Animal in the Specific Function of Shaping Human Identity

Author(s): Kristina Giacometti
Subject(s): Fiction, Metaphysics, Hermeneutics, Ontology
Published by: Pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Bihaću
Keywords: high fantasy; animal studies; daemons; forming of human identity;

Summary/Abstract: Main characters in the most of the postmodern children’s fantasy literature are frequently animals, so we can linkage animal studies and fantasy literature. The main goal of this work is going to be an analysis of animals which are presented in Philip Pullman’s children’s fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, as characters called ‘dæmons’. In order to prove that presentations of inhuman animals, relation of human and animal, and physical externalization of an animal as the representation of humans’ other I, are in specific function of forming human identity; in the analysis, there is going to be used the combination of critical-animalistic and philology methods.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 91-95
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bosnian