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  1. Critical perspectives on Harry Potter
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    Offers an analyses of the "Potter" books as phenomenon, bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine the impact of the series. This work features essays that explore on what it has meant for a generation of children to grow up with... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Offers an analyses of the "Potter" books as phenomenon, bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine the impact of the series. This work features essays that explore on what it has meant for a generation of children to grow up with Harry Potter

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0415964849; 020389281x; 9780203892817; 9780415964845; 9781135891541; 9781281707147
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Subjects: Magic in literature; Potter, Harry (Fictitious character); Wizards in literature; Children's stories, English; Children; Fantasy fiction, English
    Other subjects: Rowling, J. K; Rowling, J. K
    Scope: Online-Ressource (ix, 354 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Fostering Insight Through Multiple Critical Perspectives; Part I Perspectives on Identity and Morality; Chapter One Controversial Content: Is Harry Potter Harmful to Children?; Chapter Two Harry Potter and Christian Theology; Chapter Three Harry Potter's World as a Morality Tale of Technology and Media; Chapter Four Is Desire Beneficial or Harmful in the Harry Potter Series?; Chapter Five The Great Snape Debate; Part II Critical and Sociological Perspectives

    Chapter Six Schooling Harry Potter: Teachers and Learning, Power and KnowledgeChapter Seven Comedy, Quest, and Community: Home and Family in Harry Potter; Chapter Eight From Sexist to (sort-of) Feminist: Representations of Gender in the Harry Potter Series; Chapter Nine Monsters, Creatures, and Pets at Hogwarts: Animal Stewardship in the World of Harry Potter; Chapter Ten Harry Potter, the War against Evil, and the Melodramatization of Public Culture; Part III Literacy Elements and Interpretations; Chapter Eleven Playing the Genre Game: Generic Fusions of the Harry Potter Series

    Chapter Twelve Harry Potter and the Secrets of Children's LiteratureChapter Thirteen Harry Potter and the Horrors of the Oresteia; Chapter Fourteen Philosopher's Stone to Resurrection Stone: Narrative Transformations and Intersecting Cultures across the Harry Potter Series; Part IV Cultural Studies and Media Perspectives; Chapter Fifteen Lost in Translation?: Harry Potter, from Page to Screen; Chapter Sixteen The Migration of Media: Harry Potter in Print and Pixels; Chapter Seventeen Writing Harry's World: Children Co-authoring Hogwarts

    Chapter Eighteen Pottermania: Good, Clean Fun or Cultural Hegemony?Contributors; Index