Open at the close : literary essays on Harry Potter /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Farr, Cecilia Konchar, 1958- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Subjects:	Rowling, J. K. > Harry Potter series > Criticism and interpretation. Harry Potter series (Rowling, J. K.) Children's literature > Criticism and interpretation. Children's literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Cecilia Konchar Farr
Section 1: Horcruxes. Ascendio: a close and distant reading of progressive complexity in the Harry Potter series / Cecilia Konchar Farr and Amy Mars
Said Hermione earnestly: Harry Potter's prose, and why it doesn't matter / Emily Strand
Say the magic word: spellwork and the legacy of nonsense / Christina Phillips-Mattson
Magical medicine: healers, healing spells, and medical humanities / Jennifer M. Reeher
Rowling's paratextual gifts: thresholds to community in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / Marie Schilling Grogan
Communities of interpretation in Jane Austen and Harry Potter / Beatrice Groves
The Russian formalist heart of the Harry Potter series / John Granger
Section 2: Hallows. Reading Harry with the risk of trust and a hopeful search for meaning / Patrick McCauley
"Always dependably, solidly present": the preemincence of Minerva McGonagall / Kate Glassman
"Loony, loopy Lupin": (sexual) nonnormativity, transgression, and the werewolf / Jonathan A. Rose
Sorry, not sorry: the limits of empathy for nonhuman creatures / Keridiana Chez
"All was well"?: the sociopolitical struggles of house-elves, goblins, and centaurs / Juliana Valadão Lopes
The face of evil: physiognomy in Potter / Lauren R. Camacci
Slytherin safety: the rhetoric of antiassimilation in the wizarding world / Nusaiba Imady
Harry Potter and the management of trauma / Tolonda Henderson
A coda: she-who-must-not-be-named / Tolonda Henderson.