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Critical perspectives on Harry Potter

Author: Elizabeth E Heilman
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Offers an analyses of the "Potter" books as phenomenon, bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine the impact of the series. This work features essays that explore on what it has meant for a generation of children to grow up with Harry Potter.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Critical perspectives on Harry Potter.
New York : Routledge, 2009
(DLC) 2008005439
(OCoLC)192048093
Named Person: J K Rowling; J K Rowling
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth E Heilman
ISBN: 9780203892817 020389281X 9786611707149 661170714X
OCLC Number: 247144168
Description: 1 online resource (ix, 354 p.)
Contents: Introduction: fostering insight through multiple critical perspectives / Elizabeth E. Heilman --
I. Perspectives on identity and morality. 1. Controversial content: Is Harry Potter harmful to children? / Deborah J. Taub and Heather L. Servaty-Seib --
2. Harry Potter and Christian theology / Peter Ciaccio --
3. Harry Potter's world as a morality tale of technology and media / Nicholas Sheltrown --
4. Is desire beneficial or harmful in the Harry Potter series? --
Taija Piippo --
5. The great Snape debate / Peter Appelbaum --
II. Critical and sociological perspectives. 6. Schooling Harry Potter: teachers and learning, power and knowledge / Megan L. Birch --
7. Comedy, quest, and community: home and family in Harry Potter / John Kornfeld and Laurie Prothro --
8. From sexist to (sort-of) feminist: representations of gender in the Harry Potter series / Elizabeth E. Heilman and Trevor Donaldson --
9. Monsters, creatures, and pets at Hogwarts: Animal stewardship in the world of Harry Potter / Peter Dendle --
10. Harry Potter, the war against evil, and the melodramatization of public culture / Marc Bousquet --
III. Literacy elements and interpretations. 11. Playing the genre game: generic fusions of the Harry Potter series / Anne Hiebert Alton --
12. Harry Potter and the secrets of children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva --
13. Harry Potter and the horrors of the Oresteia / Alice Mills --
14. Philosopher's Stone to resurrection stone: narrative transformations and intersecting cultures across the Harry Potter series / Kate Behr --
IV. Cultural studies and media perspectives. 15. Lost in translation?: Harry Potter, from page to screen / Philip Nel --
16. The migration of media: Harry Potter in print and pixels / Anna Gunder --
17. Writing Harry's world: children co-authoring Hogwarts / Ernest L. Bond and Nancy L. Michelson --
18. Pottermania: good, clean fun or cultural hegemony? / Tammy Turner-Vorbeck.
Other Titles: Harry Potter's world.
Responsibility: edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman.

Abstract:

Offers an analyses of the "Potter" books as phenomenon, bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine the impact of the series. This work features essays that explore on what it has meant for a generation of children to grow up with Harry Potter.

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