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Named Person: J K Rowling; J K Rowling; J K Rowling; J K Rowling
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Giselle Liza Anatol
ISBN: 0313320675 9780313320675
OCLC Number: 50774592
Description: xxv, 217 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction / by Giselle Liza Anatol -- [pt.] 1. 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 -- 2. Harry Potter and the magical looking glass : reading the secret life of the preadolescent / Lisa Damour -- 3. Harry Potter and the acquisition of knowledge / Lisa Hopkins -- 4. Safe as houses : sorting and school houses at Hogwarts / Chantel Lavoie -- 5. Harry and hierarchy : book banning as a reaction to the subversion of authority / Rebecca Stephens. [pt.] 2. Literary influences and historical contexts -- 6. Harry Potter's schooldays : J.K. Rowling and the British boarding school novel / Karen Manners Smith -- 7. Accepting mudbloods : the ambivalent social vision of J.K. Rowling's fairy tales / Elaine Ostry -- 8. Hermione and the house-elves : the literary and historical contexts of J.K. Rowling's antislavery campaign / Brycchan Carey -- 9. Flying cars, floo powder, and flaming torches : the hi-tech, low-tech world of wizardry / Margaret J. Oakes -- [pt.] 3. 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 -- 11. Harry Potter and the rule of law : the central weakness of legal concepts in the wizard world / Susan Hall -- 12. The fallen empire : exploring ethnic otherness in the world of Harry Potter / Giselle Liza Anatol -- 13. Class and socioeconomic identity in Harry Potter's England / Julia Park -- 14. Cinderfella : J.K. Rowling's wily web of gender / Ximena Gallardo-C. and C. Jason Smith -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 78
Responsibility: edited by Giselle Liza Anatol.
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