Bibliograph

Reading Harry Potter, critical essays, edited by Giselle Liza Anatol

Type

Label

Reading Harry Potter, critical essays, edited by Giselle Liza Anatol

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reading Harry Potter

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

650307506

Responsibility statement

edited by Giselle Liza Anatol

Series statement

Contributions to the study of popular culture,, no. 78, 0198-9871

Sub title

critical essays

Summary

J.K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powers on the morning of his eleventh birthday. The books' incredible popularity, and the subsequent likelihood that they are among this generation's most formative narratives, call for critical exploration and study to interpret the works' inherent tropes and themes. The essays in this collection assume that Rowling's works should not be relegated to the categories of pulp fiction or children's trends, which would deny their certain influence on the

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