Julia Eccleshare

Guide to the Harry Potter Novels (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 a background of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary childrenÆs books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.This book has not been authorized by JK Rowling, her agent, or Warner Bros.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847144188
• Artikelnr.: 40773955

Autorenporträt

Julia Eccleshare is children's books editor of the Guardian (one of the UK's top broadsheets). She has written on children's books for 25 years and regularly appears on BBC programmes and in "The Bookseller". One of her reviews provided blurb for the first paperback edition of "Harry Potter".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Background
1. The Publishing of a Phenomenon
2. The Development of a Series
3. The Telling of a Story: sources and references
Part II: Inside the Books: Closer study
4. Hogwarts: The Creation of an enchanted world - and what its purpose is
5. Hogwarts: Escape - reasons for separation and methods of escape
6. What Rowling says in the Harry Potter books: Society
7. What Rowling says in the Harry Potter books: Education
8. What Rowling says in the Harry Potter books: Family
Part III: Conclusion
9. The Effect of Harry Potter