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The ivory tower and Harry Potter : perspectives on a literary phenomenon / Lana A. Whited, editor.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2002Description: x, 408 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826214436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 21
LOC classification:
  • PR6068.O93 Z734 2002
Contents:
Introduction. Harry Potter: From Craze to Classic? / Lana A. Whited. I. Harry's Cousins in the Magical Realm: Harry Potter and the Secret Password: Finding Our Way in the Magical Genre / Amanda Cockrell -- The Education of a Wizard: Harry Potter and His Predecessors / Pat Pinsent. II. Harry's Roots in Epic, Myth, and Folklore: In Medias Res: Harry Potter as Hero-in-Progress / Mary Pharr -- Of Magicals and Muggles: Reversals and Revulsions at Hogwarts / Jann Lacoss -- Harry Potter: Fairy Tale Prince, Real Boy, and Archetypal Hero / M. Katherine Grimes. III. Harry's Other Literary Relatives: Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary / Roni Natov -- Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British School Story: Lost in Transit? / David K. Steege. IV. Greater than Gold in Gringotts: Questions of Authority and Values : Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority / Farah Mendlesohn -- What Would Harry Do? J. K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories of Moral Development -- Lana A. Whited, with M. Katherine Grimes. V. Gender Issues and Harry Potter: Hermione Granger and the Heritage of Gender / Eliza T. Dresang -- Locating Harry Potter in the "Boys' Book" Market / Terri Doughty. VI. Harry's Language: Taking Issue with Words: You Say "Jelly," I Say "Jell-O": Harry Potter and the Transfiguration of Language / Philip Nel -- Harry Potter and the Tower of Babel: Translating the Magic / Nancy K. Jentsch. VII. Commodity and Culture in the World of Harry Potter: Specters of Thatcherism: Contemporary British Culture in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series / Karin E. Westman -- Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic / Elizabeth Teare -- Apprentice Wizards Welcome: Fan Communities and the Culture of Harry Potter / Rebecca Sutherland Borah.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PR6068 .O93 Z734 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000692573

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-389) and index.

Introduction. Harry Potter: From Craze to Classic? / Lana A. Whited. I. Harry's Cousins in the Magical Realm: Harry Potter and the Secret Password: Finding Our Way in the Magical Genre / Amanda Cockrell -- The Education of a Wizard: Harry Potter and His Predecessors / Pat Pinsent. II. Harry's Roots in Epic, Myth, and Folklore: In Medias Res: Harry Potter as Hero-in-Progress / Mary Pharr -- Of Magicals and Muggles: Reversals and Revulsions at Hogwarts / Jann Lacoss -- Harry Potter: Fairy Tale Prince, Real Boy, and Archetypal Hero / M. Katherine Grimes. III. Harry's Other Literary Relatives: Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary / Roni Natov -- Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British School Story: Lost in Transit? / David K. Steege. IV. Greater than Gold in Gringotts: Questions of Authority and Values : Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority / Farah Mendlesohn -- What Would Harry Do? J. K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories of Moral Development -- Lana A. Whited, with M. Katherine Grimes. V. Gender Issues and Harry Potter: Hermione Granger and the Heritage of Gender / Eliza T. Dresang -- Locating Harry Potter in the "Boys' Book" Market / Terri Doughty. VI. Harry's Language: Taking Issue with Words: You Say "Jelly," I Say "Jell-O": Harry Potter and the Transfiguration of Language / Philip Nel -- Harry Potter and the Tower of Babel: Translating the Magic / Nancy K. Jentsch. VII. Commodity and Culture in the World of Harry Potter: Specters of Thatcherism: Contemporary British Culture in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series / Karin E. Westman -- Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic / Elizabeth Teare -- Apprentice Wizards Welcome: Fan Communities and the Culture of Harry Potter / Rebecca Sutherland Borah.

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