Reading Harry Potter : critical essays /
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003. |
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| Description: | xxv, 217 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 78 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5039217 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I.. 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
- 2.. Harry Potter and the Magical Looking Glass: Reading the Secret Life of the Preadolescent
- 3.. Harry Potter and the Acquisition of Knowledge
- 4.. Safe as Houses: Sorting and School Houses at Hogwarts
- 5.. Harry and Hierarchy: Book Banning as a Reaction to the Subversion of Authority
- II.. Literary Influences and Historical Contexts
- 6.. Harry Potter's Schooldays: J. K. Rowling and the British Boarding School Novel
- 7.. Accepting Mudbloods: The Ambivalent Social Vision of J. K. Rowling's Fairy Tales
- 8.. Hermione and the House-Elves: The Literary and Historical Contexts of J. K. Rowling's Antislavery Campaign
- 9.. Flying Cars, Floo Powder, and Flaming Torches: The Hi-Tech, Low-Tech World of Wizardry
- III.. 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
- 11.. Harry Potter and the Rule of Law: The Central Weakness of Legal Concepts in the Wizard World
- 12.. The Fallen Empire: Exploring Ethnic Otherness in the World of Harry Potter
- 13.. Class and Socioeconomic Identity in Harry Potter's England
- 14.. Cinderfella: J. K. Rowling's Wily Web of Gender
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors