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Guide to the Harry Potter Novels: (Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature)


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JK Rowling now is half-way through a series which has taken the world by storm. Unusually, she has attracted success both in terms of massive sales figures and critical acclaim. This study will look at her books and consider some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This will be done against a background of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary childrenÆs books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.This book has not been authorized by JK Rowling, her agent, or Warner Bros.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I: Background 1. The Publishing of a Phenomenon 2. The Development of a Series 3. The Telling of a Story: sources and references Part II: Inside the Books: Closer study 4. Hogwarts: The Creation of an enchanted world - and what its purpose is 5. Hogwarts: Escape - reasons for separation and methods of escape 6. What Rowling says in the Harry Potter books: Society 7. What Rowling says in the Harry Potter books: Education 8. What Rowling says in the Harry Potter books: Family Part III: Conclusion 9. The Effect of Harry Potter

About the Author :
Julia Eccleshare is children's books editor of the Guardian (one of the UK's top broadsheets). She has written on children's books for 25 years and regularly appears on BBC programmes and in "The Bookseller". One of her reviews provided blurb for the first paperback edition of "Harry Potter".

Review :
"a thoughtful introduction to the phenomenon that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" --Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Winter 02-03 "Overall, this useful text serves its purpose by providing a launching point for parents and high school teachers. It may even serve some use as supplementary reading for Children's or Young Adult literature courses focused on the Potter books."- Brent Stypczynski, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Summer 2006, 17.2 "Without pretension, she reminds us of how useful it is to stand back from the razzmatazz of book reading and selling and library works and the rest, to take stock of what makes Harry Potter books tick... Eccleshare opens up a number of critical ideas that are always worth asking... She combines "conventionality with traditionalism" and so makes a suitable case for treatment by Olympian critics keen to detect sources, devise theories and distrust commercialism. I hope Eccleshare rewrites the book now that the Harry Potter series is complete." Stuart Hannabuss, LR 57,8 'Eccleshare addresses pertinent race and gender issues, examines Rowling's handling of education and the family, and touches on some broad social implications of current widespread enthusiasm for Harry Potter.'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780826453174
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Series Title: Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0826453171
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 210 gr


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