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A Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation

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A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon. A Wizard of Their Age began when the students in Cecilia Konchar Farr's "Six Degrees of Harry Potter" course at St. Catherine University kept finding errors in the available scholarship. These students had been reading Harry Potter for their entire literate lives, and they demanded more attention to the details they found significant. "We can do better than this," they said. Konchar Farr, two undergraduate teaching assistants, and five student editors decided to test that hypothesis. After issuing a call for contributions, they selected fifteen thoughtful academic essays by students from across the country. These essays examine the Harry Potter books from a variety of perspectives, including literary, historical, cultural, gender, mythological, psychological, theological, and genetic-there is even a nursing care plan for Tom Riddle. Interspersed among the essays are brief vignettes entitled "My Harry Potter Story," where students write about their personal encounters with the novels. Although a quick Internet search yields a dazzling number of books about Harry Potter, few are as deeply invested or insightful as A Wizard of Their Age. Written and edited by-and for-members of the Harry Potter generation, these essays demonstrate this generation's passionate engagement with the Harry Potter phenomenon and provide numerous critical insights into the individual novels and the series as a whole.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Giselle Liza Anatol Acknowledgments Notes on Citations Introduction: Teaching Them to Love What They Have Loved: Harry Potter Goes to College Daley Konchar Farr and Cecilia Konchar Farr My Harry Potter Story Phillip Awayan and Maria Ignacio Part I. Muggle Studies 1. The Harry Potter Phenomenon: Locating the Boy Wizard in the Tradition of the American Bestseller Kate Glassman 2. Loading the Canon: Harry Potter and Fanfiction Kate McManus 3. The Simulated World of Harry Potter Kyle Bubb 4. The Wizard, the Muggle, and the Other: (Post) Colonialism in Harry Potter Hannah Lamb 5. The Generation(s) of Harry Potter: The Boy Wizard and His Young Readers Tréza Rosado My Harry Potter Story Lydia Fasteland and Richelle Ilanga Part II. Defense Against the Dark Arts 6. The Making of a New World: Nazi Ideology and Its In Influence on Harry Potter Sarah Wente 7. The Nuances of Mastering Death: Murder, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide in Harry Potter Kalie Caetano 8. The Wickedest of Magical Inventions: The Separable Soul in Harry Potter and Medieval Folklore Sarah Sutter 9. WWHPD: What Would Harry Potter Do? Callie Knudslein 10. Doubting Dumbledore Jenny McDougal My Harry Potter Story Marion Basilio and Carrie Matthews Part III: Transformation 11. Harry Potter and the Wizard’s Gene: A Genetic Analysis of Potterworld Courtney Agar and Julia Terk 12. Give Nature a Wand and It Will Nurture Magic Kiah Bizal 13. A Nursing Care Plan for Tom Riddle Kari Newell 14. Literary Arithmancy: An Analysis of Number Symbolism in Harry Potter Evan Gaydos 15. Sexual Geometry of the Golden Trio: Hermoine’s Subversion of Traditional Female Subject Positions Rachel Armstrong Afterword: A Conversation with the Contributing Editors Appendix 1. Harry Potter Course Syllabus Appendix 2. Annotated Harry Potter Timeline About the Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438454474
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Depth: 32
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: 577
  • Sub Title: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1438454473
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: Annotated edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 590 gr


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