Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter
Subtitle: applying academic methods to a popular text
Series: Studies in British literature ; v. 99
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780773460102
Copyright date: 2005
Notes: "These essays were written and the collection sent to press before the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, book six of what J.K. Rowling has promised is a seven-book series." - Postscript.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Debbie Mynott; title: Introduction : serious scholarship and academic hocus pocus : conjuring Harry Potter into the canon / Cynthia Whitney Hallett; title: Educating Harry Potter : a Muggle's perspective on magic and knowledge in the wizard world of J.K. Rowling / Sarah E. Maier; title: Harry Potter and the temporal prime directive : time travel, rule-breaking, and misapprehension in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / Ron W. Cooley; title: If yeh know where to go : vision and mapping in the wizarding world / Jonathan P. Lewis; title: A basilisk, a phoenix, and a philosopher's stone : Harry Potter's myths and legends / Peggy J. Huey; title: Death and rebirth : Harry Potter & the mythology of the phoenix / Sarah E. Gibbons; title: The harlequin in the Weasley twins : jesters in the court of Prince Harry (and J.K. Rowling) / Rebecca Whitus Longster; title: Lessons in transfiguration : allegories of male identity in Rowling's Harry Potter series / Casey Cothran; title: Reading J.K. Rowling magically : creating C.S. Lewis's "good reader" / Ernelle Fife; title: The problem of identity in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Leigh A. Neithardt; title: Of young magicians and growing up : J.K. Rowling, her critics, and the "cultural infantilism" debate / Steve Barfield; title: High-brow Harry Potter : J.K. Rowling's series as college-level literature / Laura Baker Shearer; title: Hogwarts vs. "the 'values' wasteland" : Harry Potter and the formation of character / William Wandless; title: Metaphor and metafantasy : questing for literary inheritance in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone / Evelyn M. Perry