A wizard of their age : critical essays from the Harry Potter generation /
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| Imprint: | Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2015] |
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| Description: | xix, 300 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10137284 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Citations
- Introduction: Teaching Them to Love What They Have Loved: Harry Potter Goes to College
- My Harry Potter Story
- Part I. Muggle Studies
- 1. The Harry Potter Phenomenon: Locating the Boy Wizard in the Tradition of the American Bestseller
- 2. Loading the Canon: Harry Potter and Fanfiction
- 3. The Simulated World of Harry Potter
- 4. The Wizard, the Muggle, and the Other: (Post) Colonialism in Harry Potter
- 5. The Generation(s) of Harry Potter: The Boy Wizard and His Young Readers
- My Harry Potter Story
- Part II. Defence Against the Dark Arts
- 6. The Making of a New World: Nazi Ideology and Its Influence on Harry Potter
- 7. The Nuances of Mastering Death: Murder, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide in Harry Potter
- 8. The Wickedest of Magical Inventions: The Separable Soul in Harry Potter and Medieval Folklore
- 9. WWHPD: What Would Harry Potter Do?
- 10. Doubting Dumbledore
- My Harry Potter Story
- Part III. Transfiguration
- 11. Harry Potter and the Wizard's Gene: A Genetic Analysis of Potterworld
- 12. Give Nature a Wand and It Will Nurture Magic
- 13. A Nursing Care Plan for Tom Riddle
- 14. Literary Arithmancy: An Analysis of Number Symbolism in Harry Potter
- 15. Sexual Geometry of the Golden Trio: Hermione's Subversion of Traditional Female Subject Positions
- Afterword: A Conversation with the Contributing Editors
- Appendix 1. Harry Potter Course Syllabus
- Appendix 2. Annotated Harry Potter Timeline
- About the Contributors
- Index
