Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter
Series: Pedagogy and popular culture
Publisher: Falmer Press
Published: November 2002
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415933742
Copyright date: 2002
First sentence: Pottermania has become a cultural phenomenon.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Harry Potter across Theoretical and Disciplinary Boundaries; title: Cultural Studies Perspectives
label: Part I; title: 1. Pottermania: Good, Clean Fun or Cultural Hegemony?; title: 2. Magic, Technoculture, and Becoming Human; title: 3. Controversial Content in Children's Literature: Is Harry Potter Harmful to Children?; title: Reader Response and Interpretive Perspectives
label: Part II; title: 4. Ways of Reading Harry Potter: Multiple Narratives for Multiple Readers; title: 5. Reading Harry Potter with Navajo Eyes; title: 6. Transfiguring Harry's World: Children Co-authoring Hogwarts; title: Literary Perspectives: The Hero, Myth and Genre
label: Part III; title: 7. Harry Potter - a Return to the Romantic Hero; title: 8. Generic Fusion and the Mosaic of Harry Potter; title: 9. Wizardly Initiations: Moral, Familial, and Social; title: Critical and Sociological Perspectives
label: Part IV; title: 10. Comedy, Conflict, and Community: Home and Family in Harry Potter; title: II. The Seeker of Secrets: Images of Learning, Knowing and Schooling; title: 12. Blue Wizards and Pink Witches: Expressions of Gender Identity and Power; title: 13. Images of the Privileged Insider and Outcast Outsider; title: 14. The Civic Leadership of Harry Potter: Agency, Ritual, and Schooling