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The ivory tower and Harry Potter : perspectives on a literary phenomenon /

Publisher description: Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Pottter is the first book-length analysis of J.K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Ha...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whited, Lana A., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Harry's cousins in the magical realm. Harry Potter and the secret password : finding our way in the magical genre / Amanda Cockrell
  • The education of a wizard : Harry Potter and his predecessors / Pat Pinsent
  • Harry's roots in epic, myth, and folklore. In medias res : Harry Potter as hero-in-progress / Mary Pharr
  • Of magicals and muggles : reversals and revulsions at Hogwarts / Jann Lacoss
  • Harry Potter : fairy tale prince, real boy, and archetypal hero / M. Katherine Grimes
  • Harry's other literary relatives. Harry Potter and the extraordinariness of the ordinary / Roni Natov
  • Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British school story : lost in transit? / David K. Steege
  • Greater than gold in Gringotts : questions of authority and values. Crowning the king : Harry Potter and the construction of authority / Farah Mendlesohn
  • What would Harry do? J.K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg's theories of moral development / Lana A. Whited, with M. Katherine Grimes
  • Gender issues and Harry Potter. Hermione Granger and the heritage of gender / Eliza T. Dresang
  • Locating Harry Potter in the "boys' book" market / Terri Doughty
  • Harry's language : taking issue with words. You say "jelly," I say "jell-o"? Harry Potter and the transfiguration of language / Philip Nel
  • Harry Potter and the tower of Babel : translating the magic / Nancy K. Jentsch
  • Commodity and culture in the world of Harry Potter. Specters of Thatcherism : contemporary British culture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series / Karin E. Westman
  • Harry Potter and the technology of magic / Elizabeth Teare
  • Apprentice wizards welcome : fan communities and the culture of Harry Potter / Rebecca Sutherland Borah.