Re-Reading Harry Potter
This is the first extended text-based analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Arguments are primarily based on close readings of the first four Harry Potter books and the first two films - in other words, a 'text-to-world' method is followed. This study does not assume that the phenomenon concerns children alone, or should be lightly dismissed as a matter of pure entertainment. The amount of money, media coverage, and ideological unease involved indicates otherwise. The first part provides a survey of responses (both of general readers and critics) to the Harry Potter books. Some of the methodological…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21958-8
- EAN: 9780230219588
- Produktnummer: 18836627
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Masse: H18.0 cm x B21.8 cm x D1.4 cm 364 g
- Auflage: 2nd ed. 2009
- Abbildungen: 1 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 278 p. 1 illus.
- Gewicht: 364
Über den Autor
SUMAN GUPTA is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK. He is also at present Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University, and is currently coordinating an international collaborative project on English Studies in Non-Anglophone Contexts. He is the author of nine books, including recently Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies (2006) and Literature and Globalization (2008), and editor of six books, recently The Cultural Discourses of Economic Migration (with Tope Omoniyi, 2007).
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