Reviews"This book is a must-read for everyone interested not only in 'Harry Potter' the phenomenon, but culture as the pedagogical force par excellence of the new millennium.." (Henry Giroux, author of The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear)
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Harry Potter across Theoretical and Disciplinary BoundariesI. Cultural Studies Perspectives1. Pottermania: Good, Clean Fun or Cultural Hegemony? Tammy Turner-Vorbeck2. Magic, Technoculture, and Becoming Human, Peter Applebaum3. Controversial Content in Children's Literature: Is Harry Potter Harmful to Children? Heather Servaty and Deborah TaubII. Reader Response and Interpretive Perspectives4. Ways of Reading Harry Potter: Multiple Narratives for Multiple Readers, Kathleen Malu5. Reading Harry Potter with Navajo Eyes, Hollie Anderson6. Transfiguring Harry's World: Children Co-authoring Hogwarts, Ernest Bond and Nancy MichelsonIII. Literary Perspectives: The Hero, Myth, and Genre7. Harry Potter: A Return to the Romantic Hero, Maria Nikolajeva8. Generic Fusion and the Mosaic of Harry Potter, Anne Hiebert Alton9. Wizardly Initiations: Moral, Familial, and Social, Deborah DeRosaIV. Critical and Sociological Perspectives10. Comedy, Conflict, and Community: Home and Family in Harry Potter, John Kornfeld and Laurie Prothro11. The Seeker of Secrets: Images of Learning, Knowing, and Schooling, Charles Elster12. Blue Wizards and Pink Witches: Expressions of Gender Identity and Power, Elizabeth E. Heilman13. Images of the Privileged Insider and Outcast Outsider, Anne E. Gregory and Elizabeth E. Heilman14. The Civic Leadership of Harry Potter: Agency, Ritual, and Schooling, Jesse Goodman and Rebecca Skulnick
SynopsisHarry 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-and 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., Harry Potter's World brings together scholars from various disciplines to provide literary, cultural, sociological, and psychological examinations of the Harry Potter series. "DISCLAIMER: This book is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or movies."
LC Classification NumberPR6068.O93Z73 2002