Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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In the 1990s, Young Adult fantasy blossomed into a major and mainstream genre. This course looks at Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, J K Rowling's Harry Potter series, and Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogy, asking about their deeper concerns, and why and how they became such iconic works, defining a generation.
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