Inside the world of Harry Potter : critical essays on the books and films /

Many scholars recognize the importance of Harry Potter as a vehicle for discussions about society. This interdisciplinary collection of new essays from one of the world's leading Harry Potter scholars brings to the forefront a critique of modern Western society, using Harry's world as a mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bell, Christopher E., 1974- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Subjects:	Rowling, J. K. > Criticism and interpretation. Rowling, J. K. > Harry Potter series. Potter, Harry > (Fictitious character) Children's stories, English > History and criticism. Literature and society. Civilization, Western.

Table of Contents:

Gone but not forgotten: the missing mothers of the wizarding world / Kate Fulton and Alicia L. Skipper
"Beyond the veil": the narrative functions of death / Samantha J. Vertosick
"I don't think you're a waste of space": activity, redemption and the social construction of fatness / Tolonda Henderson
Of the Patil Twins Soma Das time travel and the cursed child / Elizabeth Morrow Clark
Frisky, risky firewhisky: the rhetorical function of alcohol / Lauren Rose Camacci
Pure-bloods, half-bloods, and mudbloods / Camilla Schroeder
"You have your mother's eyes": inheritance and social class / Alison Baker
The first gift: owls as paragons of the non-human / Keri Stevenson
Dangerous depictions of adoption in Rowling's wizarding world narratives / Tara Moore
Harry Potter and the paradoxes of fidelity / Borojevi Jelena
What is a hero?: an analysis of legacy symbolism / Marley Stuever-Williford.