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Title The ivory tower and Harry Potter : perspectives on a literary phenomenon / Lana A. Whited, editor
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 408 pages)
Contents Harry's cousins in the magical realm. Harry Potter and the secret password : finding our way in the magical genre / Amanda Cockrell -- The education of a wizard : Harry Potter and his predecessors / Pat Pinsent -- Harry's roots in epic, myth, and folklore. In medias res : Harry Potter as hero-in-progress / Mary Pharr -- Of magicals and muggles : reversals and revulsions at Hogwarts / Jann Lacoss -- Harry Potter : fairy tale prince, real boy, and archetypal hero / M. Katherine Grimes -- Harry's other literary relatives. Harry Potter and the extraordinariness of the ordinary / Roni Natov -- Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British school story : lost in transit? / David K. Steege -- Greater than gold in Gringotts : questions of authority and values. Crowning the king : Harry Potter and the construction of authority / Farah Mendlesohn -- What would Harry do? J.K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg's theories of moral development / Lana A. Whited, with M. Katherine Grimes -- Gender issues and Harry Potter. Hermione Granger and the heritage of gender / Eliza T. Dresang -- Locating Harry Potter in the "boys' book" market / Terri Doughty -- Harry's language : taking issue with words. You say "jelly," I say "jell-o"? Harry Potter and the transfiguration of language / Philip Nel -- Harry Potter and the tower of Babel : translating the magic / Nancy K. Jentsch -- Commodity and culture in the world of Harry Potter. Specters of Thatcherism : contemporary British culture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series / Karin E. Westman -- Harry Potter and the technology of magic / Elizabeth Teare -- Apprentice wizards welcome : fan communities and the culture of Harry Potter / Rebecca Sutherland Borah
Summary Publisher description: Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Pottter is the first book-length analysis of J.K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-389) and index
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Subject Rowling, J. K. -- Criticism and interpretation
Rowling, J. K. -- Characters -- Harry Potter
Potter, Harry (Fictitious character)
SUBJECT Rowling, J. K. fast
Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) fast
Rowling, Joanne K. Harry Potter. swd
Subject Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
Wizards in literature.
Magic in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children -- Books and reading
Children's stories, English
Fantasy fiction, English
Magic in literature
Wizards in literature
Aufsatzsammlung
Fantastische Literatur
Harry Potter.
Tekstanalyse.
Litterära gestalter.
Engelsk barn- och ungdomslitteratur.
Engelsk fantasy (litteratur)
English-speaking countries
USA
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Whited, Lana A., 1958- editor.
ISBN 9780826263308
0826263305
1417528753
9781417528752