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Re-Reading Harry Potter

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  1. Suman Gupta

    1. The Open University, UK

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. The Text-to-World Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Book Covers

      • Suman Gupta
      Pages 3-7

    3. Children and Adults

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      Pages 8-13

    4. The Seriousness of Social and Political Effects

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      Pages 14-23

    5. Text-to-World Assumptions (Some General Definitions)

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      Pages 24-28

    6. A Thought about Open and Closed Texts

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      Pages 29-32

    7. The Irrelevance of J.K. Rowling

      • Suman Gupta
      Pages 33-39

    8. Children’s Literature

      • Suman Gupta
      Pages 40-54

    9. Fantasy Literature

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      Pages 55-66

    10. Religious Perspectives

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      Pages 67-74

    11. Locations and Limitations

      • Suman Gupta
      Pages 75-81

  3. Reading the Harry Potter Novels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Three Worlds

      • Suman Gupta
      Pages 85-92

    3. Repetition and Progression

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      Pages 93-96

    4. Evasive Allusions

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      Pages 97-98

    5. Blood

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      Pages 99-110

    6. Servants and Slaves

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      Pages 111-120

    7. The Question of Class

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      Pages 121-126

    8. Desire

      • Suman Gupta
      Pages 127-132
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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.

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'Suman Gupta's revised and expanded edition of Re-Reading Harry Potter includes responses to his critics and an exploration of the impact that the series has had in non-English speaking countries. Once again, he breaks new ground in his analysis of the Harry Potter novels by trying to understand them as fluid texts, and he challenges the superficial celebration of the these novels as liberating texts. If students and educated readers want to take the Harry Potter phenomenon seriously, Gupta's work is the best place to start.' - Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Open University, UK

    Suman Gupta

About the author

SUMAN GUPTA is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK. He is also at present Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University, and is currently coordinating an international collaborative project on English Studies in Non-Anglophone Contexts. He is the author of nine books, including recently Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies (2006) and Literature and Globalization (2008), and editor of six books, recently The Cultural Discourses of Economic Migration (with Tope Omoniyi, 2007).

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