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Reading Harry Potter Again : New Critical Essays.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780313361982
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.914
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Harry the Teenager: Muggle Themes in a Magical Adolescence -- I. RELIGION AND MORALITY -- 2. The Lightning Bolt Scar as a Lightning Rod: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series and the Rhetoric of the Extreme Right -- 3. The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings -- 4. Causation, Prophetic Visions, and the Free Will Question in Harry Potter -- 5. Harry Potter and Narratives of Destiny -- 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lies in Harry Potter -- II. THE POLITICS OF HARRY POTTER: ISSUES OF GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS -- 7. Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest for the Domestic -- 8. The Replication of Victorian Racial Ideology in Harry Potter -- 9. A Marxist Inquiry into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series -- 10. Secret Domination or Civic Duty: The Source and Purpose of Magical Power in Harry Potter -- III. THE SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES -- 11. Hermione and the House-Elves Revisited: J.K. Rowling, Antislavery Campaigning, and the Politics of Potter -- 12. (Dis)Order and the Phoenix: Love and Political Resistance in Harry Potter -- 13. Militant Literacy: Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge, and the (Mis)use of Text -- 14. Doubling, Transfiguration, and Haunting: The Art of Adapting Harry Potter for Film -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Editor and Contributors.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Harry the Teenager: Muggle Themes in a Magical Adolescence -- I. RELIGION AND MORALITY -- 2. The Lightning Bolt Scar as a Lightning Rod: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series and the Rhetoric of the Extreme Right -- 3. The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings -- 4. Causation, Prophetic Visions, and the Free Will Question in Harry Potter -- 5. Harry Potter and Narratives of Destiny -- 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lies in Harry Potter -- II. THE POLITICS OF HARRY POTTER: ISSUES OF GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS -- 7. Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest for the Domestic -- 8. The Replication of Victorian Racial Ideology in Harry Potter -- 9. A Marxist Inquiry into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series -- 10. Secret Domination or Civic Duty: The Source and Purpose of Magical Power in Harry Potter -- III. THE SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES -- 11. Hermione and the House-Elves Revisited: J.K. Rowling, Antislavery Campaigning, and the Politics of Potter -- 12. (Dis)Order and the Phoenix: Love and Political Resistance in Harry Potter -- 13. Militant Literacy: Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge, and the (Mis)use of Text -- 14. Doubling, Transfiguration, and Haunting: The Art of Adapting Harry Potter for Film -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Editor and Contributors.

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