The Harry Potter Series
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA; Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781619255197
Copyright date: 2015
Description: "Over the last twenty years, J. K. Rowling has captured the hearts and imaginations of readers around the world with her inimitable Harry Potter series, an adventurous tale of a young wizard's coming of age. In the course of seven books, this epic fantasy saga tells the story of Harry Potter, a boy wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Together with his friends, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, as well as other various modern-day wizards, witches, and Muggles, Harry fights an ongoing battle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard with an obsessive quest for power and immortality. Edited by Lana A. Whited (English Professor and Director of the Boone Honors Program at Ferrum College) and M. Katherine Grimes (Associate English Professor and English Program Coordinator at Ferrum College), Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series presents a collection of essays by established international scholars in such fields as children's literature, fantasy, and even Harry Potter studies. The newest addition to Salem Press' acclaimed Critical Insights series, this volume provides sixteen insightful essays that dig deep at the heart of J. K. Rowling and her fantastical magnum opus, examining both author and work from a multitude of angles." -- Publisher's description
Table of contents: title: About this volume / M. Katherine Grimes, Lana A. Whited; title: The book and the author.; title: On J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series / M. Katherine Grimes; title: The sustaining power of imagination : biography of J.K. Rowling / Laurie Adams; title: Critical contexts.; title: "Contemporary" does not mean "modern" : the Harry Potter series as a sampler of Western literary traditions / M. Katherine Grimes; title: A survey of the critical reception of the Harry Potter series / Lana A. Whited; title: The once and future wizard : Arthurian (and anti-Arthurian) themes in the Harry Potter series / Danny Adams; title: Moral ambiguity in authority figures in The Hunger Games, Divergent, and the Harry Potter series / Crystal Wilkins; title: Critical readings.; title: Mums are good: Harry Potter and the traditional depictions of women / Jeanne Hoeker LaHaie; title: Rock cakes and reciprocity : food and the male performance of nurturing in Harry Potter / Danielle Bienvenue Bray; title: Mentoring in the wizarding world : Dumbledore and his literary ancestors / Christina Vourcos; title: The Dark Lord and the Prince : Machiavellian elements in Harry Potter / Todd J. Ide; title: Morals vs. Christianity : how Harry Potter goes beyond goodness to godliness / Jenn Coletta; title: J.K. Rowling : author(ing) celebrity / Saradindu Bhattacharya; title: Growing up with Harry Potter : what motivated youth to read the Harry Potter series? / Colette Drouillard; title: "Splinched" : the problem of disability in the Harry Potter series / Leigh A. Neithardt; title: Harry Potter and the chronotope : suggestive possibilities for theoretical engagement / Margaret Zeegers; title: From Sorcerer's Stone to Deathly Hallows : the failed quest for immortality in the Harry Potter Series / Lana A. Whited; title: Resources.; title: Chronology of J.K. Rowling's life / Laurie Adams; title: Works by J.K. Rowling; title: Bibliography; title: About the editors; title: Contributors