Gragthor Terrazin, 2010. — 157 p. The Harry Potter series has justly become one of the best selling works of fiction in history. JK Rowling's flowing narrative style and endlessly inventive imagination brought her creation to life as she blended elements of the boarding-school and coming-of-age tales with fantasy, horror, mystery, and alternate reality. Her decision to have the...
Facts on File, 2010. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0816075743; ISBN13: 9780816075744. J.K. Rowling is one of the most popular authors of all time. Her Harry Potter books are beloved by millions of children and respected by critics of both children's and adult literature. On the other hand, these same books have aroused controversy regarding their literary merits and moral messages. Critical...
Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2003. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0313320675 (ISBN13: 9780313320675) 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...
New York: Palgrave, 2012. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0230608515 (ISBN13: 9780230608511) Potter's wizarding world is used to investigate the equally murky and intimidating world of politics. It is set to publish near the time of the release of the 6th movie in the series. With perhaps one of the most devoted fan base of any previous book series, the "Harry Potter" phenomenon supports a...
Wiley, 2011. — 307 p. — (Blackwell philosophy and popculture). — ISBN: 978-0-470-62734-1, 978-0-470-39825-8, 978-0-470-62708-2, 978-0-470-62735-8. Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series...
McFarland, 2015. — 232 p. The social relations, societal structures and existential conundrums in the world of Harry Potter novels reflect our own. When the authoritarianism of Hogwarts falls upon Harry, it is an echo of disciplinary practices in real-world high schools. The economic inequities of the wizarding world mirror those of modern societies. The art, literature and mass...
Ashgate, 2011. — 233 p. — ISBN: 9781409412441. Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The collection’s...
Fanucci , 2004. — 252 pp. — ISBN: 8834710282. Da dove nasce la magia di Harry Potter? Quali sono i modelli per l'Ordine della Fenice? Dove crescono le Mandragole più ripugnanti? Le Pozioni di Piton funzionano davvero? E poi cosa rende Harry un eroe universale? E perché Voldemort ha impresso il Marchio Nero sui mangiamorte? Qual è il trucco preferito dei folletti della...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2008. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0425223183; ISBN13: 9780425223185. This is the indispensable source guide to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels—revised and updated with information relating to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2002. — 124 p. — ISBN: 0826453171; ISBN13: 9780826453174. 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...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 544 p. — ISBN: 1849669740; ISBN13: 9781849669740. 'As someone who respects comprehensive research, I am in awe of the level of detail and amount of time Philip Errington has dedicated to this slavishly thorough and somewhat mind-boggling bibliography.' J. K. Rowling This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J. K. Rowling. In addition to...
Berkley Books, 2009. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-13313-2. Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of all ages but...
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4143-2188-2, 978-1-4143-4159-0, 978-1-4143-2766-2. More than any other book of the last fifty years (and perhaps ever), the Harry Potter novels have captured the imagination of children and adults around the world. Yet no one has ever been able to unlock the secret of Harry's wild popularity...until now. Updated and...
Berkley, 2009. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0425229793; ISBN13: 9780425229798. Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 278 p.
This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 224 p. — ISBN: 023000850X; ISBN13: 9780230008502. This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a variety of critical essays by a range of scholars, providing students with much needed guidance on how to approach these immensely popular texts and films, and how to tackle the...
2-nd edition. — Routledge, 2008. — 354 p. — ISBN: 0415964849; ISBN13: 9780415964845. This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a...
Routledge, 2019. — 242 p. Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, such as death, fear and biopolitics in J.K. Rowling’s work from controversial and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection brings together recent theoretical and applied cultural studies and focuses on three key areas of inquiry:...
Majestic Arts, 2018. — 148 p. — ISBN: 1726656993; ISBN13: 9781726656993. Learn How to Write a Novel by reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone! Learning how to write a novel is hard, but doing so by studying one of the best-selling, most-beloved novels of all time makes it a lot easier. In this book, authors and former college professors Scott King and Clark Chamberlain...
New York: Broadway, 2001. — 286 p. Who was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its power? Did J. K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn’t, who did? Millions of readers around the world have been enchanted by the magical world of wizardry, spells, and mythical beasts inhabited by Harry...
Holy Blasphemy, 2011. — 490 p. — ISBN: 0615430937; ISBN13: 9780615430935. At first glance it may seem that J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard and the crucified Jesus prophet who became the Christian savior have absolutely nothing to do with each other – and yet the unease and sometimes outright animosity between the followers of these two figures suggests otherwise. Harry has been...
Unlocking Press, 2011. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0982963327; ISBN13: 9780982963326. 'Harry Potter for Nerds' is a collection of the most exciting ideas from twelve Hogwarts Professors about the world's best selling books. Travis Prinzi, author of 'Harry Potter and Imagination' and webmaster at The Hog's Head, has tapped his Potter Pundit friends in Fandom and at better universities...
Alpha, 2007. — 272 p. — ISBN: 1592575994; ISBN13: 9781592575992. Here is an entertaining and easily referenced presentation of insider information to the world that J.K. Rowling has created in her spellbinding series of novels. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the World of Harry Potter explores all aspects of the wizarding world and explains factually in terms of their...
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. — 408 p. — ISBN: 0826214436 (ISBN13: 9780826214430) In this volume, contributors from Great Britian, the United States and Canada offer a serious critical examination of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books from a broad range of perspectives, including literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant...
Wolosky The Riddles of Harry Potter. Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10929-2
Шира Уолоски Загадки Гарри Поттера (на английском языке)
Shira Wolosky convincingly argues that Rowling's books are 'carefully crafted literary works, with many layers of meaning. ' Wolosky is at her best when analyzing the structural devices and...
Москва: ИНИОН РАН, 2007. — 98 с. — ISBN 978-5-248-00439-3. Сборник содержит статьи и обзоры И. Л. Галинской, в которых рассматриваются исторические и литературные источники романов Дж. К. Роулинг о Гарри Поттере.
Пер. с англ.: Наталья Холмогорова, под ред. Любови Сумм. — М.: Никея, 2024. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-907661-18-9/ История о Гарри Поттере – одна из самых популярных среди когда-либо написанных. В чем секрет такого ошеломляющего успеха? Известный «поттеровед» Джон Грейнджер убедительно показывает, что разгадка популярности таится глубже увлекательного сюжета или удачного...
Пер. с англ.: Наталья Холмогорова, под ред. Любови Сумм. — М.: Никея, 2024. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-907661-18-9/ История о Гарри Поттере – одна из самых популярных среди когда-либо написанных. В чем секрет такого ошеломляющего успеха? Известный «поттеровед» Джон Грейнджер убедительно показывает, что разгадка популярности таится глубже увлекательного сюжета или удачного...
Пер. с англ.: Наталья Холмогорова, под ред. Любови Сумм. — М.: Никея, 2024. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-907661-18-9/ История о Гарри Поттере – одна из самых популярных среди когда-либо написанных. В чем секрет такого ошеломляющего успеха? Известный «поттеровед» Джон Грейнджер убедительно показывает, что разгадка популярности таится глубже увлекательного сюжета или удачного...
В примечаниях и комментариях к книгам Дж. К. Роулинг "Гарри Поттер и Философский Камень", "Гарри Поттер и Таинственный Чертог", "Гарри Поттер и узник Азкабана" и "Гарри Поттер и Огненный Кубок" приводится толкование скрытого смысла, заложенного в именах и названиях мира магии, и объясняется значение магических заклинаний. Переводчик Миронова Елена.
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