The ivory tower and Harry Potter : perspectives on a literary phenomenon /
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| Imprint: | Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002. |
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| Description: | x, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4801386 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Harry Potter: From Craze to Classic?
- I.. Harry's Cousins in the Magical Realm
- Harry Potter and the Secret Password: Finding Our Way in the Magical Genre
- The Education of a Wizard: Harry Potter and His Predecessors
- II.. Harry's Roots in Epic, Myth, and Folklore
- In Medias Res: Harry Potter as Hero-in-Progress
- Of Magicals and Muggles: Reversals and Revulsions at Hogwarts
- Harry Potter: Fairy Tale Prince, Real Boy, and Archetypal Hero
- III.. Harry's Other Literary Relatives
- Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary
- Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British School Story: Lost in Transit?
- IV.. Greater than Gold in Gringotts: Questions of Authority and Values
- Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority
- What Would Harry Do? J. K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories of Moral Development
- V.. Gender Issues and Harry Potter
- Hermione Granger and the Heritage of Gender
- Locating Harry Potter in the "Boys' Book" Market
- VI.. Harry's Language: Taking Issue with Words
- You Say "Jelly," I Say "Jell-O"? Harry Potter and the Transfiguration of Language
- Harry Potter and the Tower of Babel: Translating the Magic
- VII.. Commodity and Culture in the World of Harry Potter
- Specters of Thatcherism: Contemporary British Culture in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series
- Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic
- Apprentice Wizards Welcome: Fan Communities and the Culture of Harry Potter
- About the Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
