J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter

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This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a variety of critical essays by a range of scholars, providing students with much needed guidance on how to approach these immensely popular texts and films, and how to tackle the complex concepts found within Rowling's world.

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Full title :J.K. Rowling : Harry Potter / edited by Cynthia J. Hallett & Peggy J. Huey.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 206 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1137284927, 9781137284921
oclc:ocn915155016
LC Classification:PR6068.O93
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Introduction / Cynthia J. Hallett -- Glorious food? The literary and culinary heritage of the Harry Potter series / Siân Harris -- A fairy tale crew? Rowling's characters under scrutiny / Anne Klaus -- The way of the wizarding world : Harry Potter and the magical Bildungsroman / Robert T. Talley, Jr. -- Bewitching, abject, uncanny : other spaces in the Harry Potter films / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- Free will and determinism : a 'compatibilist' reading of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series / Charlotte M. Fouque -- Dumbledore's ethos of love in Harry Potter / Lykke Guanio-Uluru -- Harry Potter and the origins of the occult / Em McAvan -- Wizard's justice and elf liberation / Marcus Schulzke -- What it means to be a half-blood : integrity versus fragmentation in biracial identity / Tess Stockslager -- Magic, medicine and Harry Potter / Clyde Partin -- Harry Potter and the myriad mothers : the maternal figure as lioness, witch and wardrobe / Roslyn Weaver and Kimberley McMahon-Coleman -- 'I knew a girl once, whose hair ... ' : Dumbledore and the closet / Jim Daems -- 'Neither can live while the other survives' : Harry Potter and the extratextual (after)life of J.K. Rowling / Pamela Ingle…

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Children -- Books and reading Children -- Books and reading -- Englis… Children's literature Children's literature studies: general Children's stories, English Children's stories, English -- History … Criticism, interpretation, etc Enfants -- Livres et lecture -- Angloph… English-speaking countries Fantasy fiction, English Fantasy fiction, English -- History and… Histoires pour enfants anglaises -- His… JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Literary Critici… LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- English, Irish,… LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Litera… LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literary Criticism & Collections Magic in literature Magie dans la littérature Potter, Harry, (Fictitious character)