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:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:pages cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230008502, 023000850X
oclc:ocn824515513
LC Classification:PR6068.O93
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; C. Hallett and P. Huey -- A Fairy Tale Crew? Rowling's Characters Under Scrutiny; A. Klaus -- The Way of the Wizarding World: Harry Potter and the Magical Bildungsroman; R.T. Talley, Jr. -- Bewitching, Abject, Uncanny: Other Spaces in the Harry Potter Films; F. Pheasant-Kelly -- Free Will and Determinism: A 'Compatibilist' Reading of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series; C.M. Fouque -- Dumbledore's Ethos of Love in Harry Potter; L. Guanio-Uluru -- Harry Potter and the Origins of the Occult; E. McAvan -- Wizard's Justice and Elf Liberation; M. Schulzke -- What It Means To Be A Half-Blood: Integrity Versus Fragmentation in Biracial Identity; T. Stockslager -- Magic, Medicine and Harry Potter; C. Partin -- Glorious Food? The Literary and Culinary Heritage of the Harry Potter Series; S. Harris -- Harry Potter and the Myriad Mothers: The Maternal Figure as Lioness, Witch and Wardrobe; R. Weaver and K. McMahon-Coleman -- 'I knew a girl once, whose hair ... ': Dumbledore and the Closet; J. Daems -- 'Neither can live while the other survives': Harry Potter and the Extratextual (After)life of J.K. Rowling; P. Ingleton -- Further Reading -- Bi…

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Children -- Books and reading Children -- Books and reading -- Englis… 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… Magic in literature Magie dans la littérature Potter, Harry, (Fictitious character) Rowling, J. K. Wizards in literature