Reading Harry Potter : critical essays / edited by Giselle Liza Anatol.
Record details
- ISBN: 0313320675
- ISBN: 9780313320675
- Physical Description: 217 pages cm.
- Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2003.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- I. Reading Harry Potter through Theories of Child Development -- 1. Archetypes and the Unconscious in Harry Potter and Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Dogsbody / Alice Mills 3 -- 2. Harry Potter and the Magical Looking Glass: Reading the Secret Life of the Preadolescent / Lisa Damour 15 -- 3. Harry Potter and the Acquisition of Knowledge / Lisa Hopkins 25 -- 4. Safe as Houses: Sorting and School Houses at Hogwarts / Chantel Lavoie 35 -- 5. Harry and Hierarchy: Book Banning as a Reaction to the Subversion of Authority / Rebecca Stephens 51 -- II. Literary Influences and Historical Contexts -- 6. Harry Potter's Schooldays: J. K. Rowling and the British Boarding School Novel / Karen Manners Smith 69 -- 7. Accepting Mudbloods: The Ambivalent Social Vision of J. K. Rowling's Fairy Tales / Elaine Ostry 89 -- 8. Hermione and the House-Elves: The Literary and Historical Contexts of J. K. Rowling's Antislavery Campaign / Brycchan Carey 103 -- 9. Flying Cars, Floo Powder, and Flaming Torches: The Hi-Tech, Low-Tech World of Wizardry / Margaret J. Oakes 117 -- III. Morality and Social Values: Issues of Power -- 10. Cruel Heroes and Treacherous Texts: Educating the Reader in Moral Complexity and Critical Reading in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books / Veronica L. Schanoes 131 -- 11. Harry Potter and the Rule of Law: The Central Weakness of Legal Concepts in the Wizard World / Susan Hall 147 -- 12. Fallen Empire: Exploring Ethnic Otherness in the World of Harry Potter / Giselle Liza Anatol 163 -- 13. Class and Socioeconomic Identity in Harry Potter's England / Julia Park 179 -- 14. Cinderfella: J. K. Rowling's Wily Web of Gender / Ximena Gallardo-C., C. Jason Smith 191.
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- Potter, Harry (Fictitious character)
Rowling, J. K. > Characters > Harry Potter.
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Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism.
Magic in literature.
Wizards in literature.
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