Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text (Studies in British Literature) Review

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(More customer reviews)The essays in Hallett's _Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text_ offer interesting perspectives into the Harry Potter series and phenomenon. As a scholar of wizards and wizard texts, I especially enjoyed the discussions of the relationship between the Wizarding and Muggle worlds and treatments of Dumbledore. Many of the essays also offer suggestions for teaching the series and address how the books might serve as means of access to more standard literary texts (for example, the Arthurian novels of T. H. White).
Complete contents as follows:Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Serious Scholarship and Academic Hocus Pocus: Conjuring Harry Potter into the Canon (Cynthia Whitney Hallet)
1.Educating Harry Potter: A Muggle's Perspective on Magic and Knowledge in the Wizard World of J. K. Rowling (Sarah E. Maier)
2.Harry Potter and the Temporal Prime Directive: Time Travel, Rule-Breaking, and Misapprehension in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Ron W. Cooley)
3.If yeh know where to go: Vision and Mapping in the Wizarding World (Jonathan P. Lewis)
4.A Basilisk, a Phoenix, and a Philosopher's Stone: Harry Potter's Myths and Legends (Peggy J. Huey)
5.Death and Rebirth: Harry Potter & the Mythology of the Phoenix (Sarah E. Gibbons)
6.The Harlequin in the Weasley Twins: Jesters in the Court of Prince Harry (and J. K. Rowling) (Rebecca Whitus Longster)
7.Lessons in Transfiguration: Allegories of Male Identity in Rowling's Harry Potter Series (Casey Cothran)
-Conjuring Harry Potter into the Canon
8.Reading J. K. Rowling Magically: Creating C. S. Lewis's "Good Reader" (Ernelle Fife)
9.The Problem of Identity in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Leigh A. Neithardt)
10.Of Young Magicians and Growing Up: J. K. Rowling, Her Critics, and the "Cultural Infantilism" Debate (Steve Barfield)
11.High-Brow Harry Potter: J. K. Rowling's Series as College-Level Literature (Laura Baker Shearer)
12.Hogwarts vs. "The Values' Wasteland": Harry Potter and the Formation of Character (William Wandless)
13.Metaphor and MetaFantasy: Questing for Literary Inheritance in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Evelyn M. Perry)
About the Contributors
Afterword


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This book is intended primarily for an academic audience, especially scholars - students and teachers - doing research and publication in categories, such as myth and legend, children's literature, and the "Harry Potter" series in particular. Additionally, it is meant for college and university teachers. However, the essays do not contain jargon that would put off an avid "lay" "Harry Potter" fan. Overall, this collection is an excellent addition to the growing analytical scholarship on the "Harry Potter" series; however, it is the first academic collection to offer practical methods of using Rowling's novels in a variety of college and university classroom situations.

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