Harry Potter's world : multidisciplinary critical perspectives

Harry Potter's World brings together scholars from various disciplines to provide literary, cultural, sociological, and psychological examinations of the Harry Potter series as both cultural product and social text. Covering many facets of the Potter books, as well as the Pottermania that surrounds them, this collection includes analysis of marketing hype and product spin-offs to supplement interpretive and critical perspectives on the books themselves.

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Elizabeth E. HeilmanTammy Turner-VorbeckPeter AppelbaumDeborah J. Taub and Heather L. ServatyKathleen F. MaluHollie AndersonErnest Bond and Nancy MichelsonMaria NikolajevaAnne Hiebert AltonDeborah De RosaJohn Kornfeld and Laurie ProthroCharles ElsterElizabeth E. HeilmanElizabeth E. Heilman and Anne E. GregoryRebecca Skulnick and Jesse GoodmanAlexander R. Wang

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Fostering Critical Insight through Multidisciplinary Perspectives	p. 1
I. Cultural Studies Perspectives
1. Pottermania: Good, Clean Fun or Cultural Hegemony?	p. 13
2. Harry Potter's World: Magic, Technoculture, and Becoming Human	p. 25
3. Controversial Content in Children's Literature: Is Harry Potter Harmful to Children?	p. 53
II. Reader Response and Interpretive Perspectives
4. Ways of Reading Harry Potter: Multiple Stories for Multiple Reader Identities	p. 75
5. Reading Harry Potter with Navajo Eyes	p. 97
6. Writing Harry's World: Children Coauthoring Hogwarts	p. 109
III. Literary Perspectives: The Hero, Myth, and Genre
7. Harry Potter--A Return to the Romantic Hero	p. 125
8. Generic Fusion and the Mosaic of Harry Potter	p. 141
9. Wizardly Challenges to and Affirmations of the Initiation Paradigm in Harry Potter	p. 163
IV. Critical and Sociological Perspectives
10. Comedy, Conflict, and Community: Home and Family in Harry Potter	p. 187
11. The Seeker of Secrets: Images of Learning, Knowing, and Schooling	p. 203
12. Blue Wizards and Pink Witches: Representations of Gender Identity and Power	p. 221
13. Images of the Privileged Insider and Outcast Outsider	p. 241
14. The Civic Leadership of Harry Potter: Agency, Ritual, and Schooling	p. 261
Appendix Authenticity in Harry Potter--The Movie and the Books	p. 279
Contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 289

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