Titlebook: Re-Reading Harry Potter; Suman Gupta Book 2009Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009 children‘

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Evasive Allusionsve body to the Magic world appear often to refer back to a shimmering vista of folklore, fairy tale and myth drawn indiscriminately from a range of sources and contexts. The books do not perform self-conscious recreations and adjustments of self-evident fairy tales as Angela Carter did in some of he

machination

Bloodt had usurped Quirrell’s (the stammering teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts) body, his face manifest on the other side of Quirrell’s head. . is about the opening of subterranean vaults and releasing the long dead (undead?) dark forces within. Harry hears the unleashed dark force (a Basilisk, i

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Conspiracy

The Question of Class previous chapter I have noted that the educational experience of Magic world is apt to be viewed in our world as being specific to a certain social class. This has in fact been the main thrust of observations about class attitudes in the . novels, and to this I return later in this chapter. In the

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Children and Adultsership, and this has to do with the books being for children and being read with pleasure by children. There is nothing more complicated about the phenomenon, everything else follows logically from that. This is the view that is unsurprisingly championed in a feature in the .:

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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.978-0-230-21958-8978-0-230-27971-1

Oligarchy

Three Worldsentioned this in Chapter 8. The manner in which the three worlds are juxtaposed against each other and give point to each other is worth teasing out further. Which of the three worlds, we might ask ourselves, is central, and why? It is an innocuous-sounding question, but the answer is not as obvious as it might initially appear to be.