The ultimate Harry Potter and philosophy : Hogwarts for Muggles /

"The Ultimate Harry Potter: Hogwarts for Muggles, is a fresh and distinctive report on the great ideas in the series. All the authors of these chapters have had the advantage of thinking through their chosen issues, and writing up their conclusions after the entire Potter storyline was complete...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bassham, Gregory, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2010.
Colección:Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
Temas:
Rowling, J. K. > Philosophy.
Rowling, J. K. > Themes, motives.
Rowling, J. K. > Characters.
Potter, Harry > (Fictitious character)
Rowling, J. K.
Rowling, Joanne K. > Harry Potter.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary organization)
Philosophy in literature.
Children's stories, English > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism.
Poudlard (Organisation imaginaire)
Philosophie dans la littérature.
Histoires pour enfants anglaises > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Characters and characteristics
Children's stories, English
Fantasy fiction, English
Philosophy
Philosophy in literature
Themes, motives
Fantastisk litteratur.
Filosofi i litteraturen.
Litterära gestalter.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Harry Potter and the enchantment of philosophy
  • The soul in Harry Potter / Scott Sehon
  • Sirius Black: man or dog? / Eric Saidel
  • Destiny in the wizarding world / Jeremy Pierce
  • Choosing love: the redemption of Severus Snape / Catherine Jack Deavel and David Paul Deavel
  • Love potion no. 9 3/4 / Gregory Bassham
  • Harry Potter, radical feminism, and the power of love / Anne Collins Smith
  • Patriotism, house loyalty, and the obligations of belonging / Andrew P. Mills
  • Dumbledore's politics / Beth Admiraal and Regan Lance Reitsma
  • Dumbledore, Plato, and the lust for power / David Lay Williams and Alan J. Kellner
  • Is Dumbledore gay? Who's to say? / Tamar Szabó Gendler
  • Choices vs. abilities: Dumbledore on self-understanding / Gregory Bassham
  • The magic of personal transformation / S. Joel Garver
  • Just in your head? J.K. Rowling on separating reality from illusion / John Granger with Gregory Bassham
  • A pensieve for your thoughts? Harry Potter and the magic of memory / Amy Kind
  • A Hogwarts education: the good, the bad, and the ugly / Gregory Bassham
  • The real secret of the phoenix: moral regeneration through death / Charles Taliaferro
  • Beyond Godric's Hollow: life after death and the search for meaning / Johnathan L. Walls and Jerry L. Walls
  • Why Harry and Socrates decide to die: virtue and the common good / Michael W. Austin.

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