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Guide to the Harry Potter Novels (Paperback)
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Guide to the Harry Potter Novels (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature
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J.K. Rowling 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 looks at her
books and considers some of the reasons for their phenomenal
success. This is done against a background of how Harry Potter
relates to other contemporary children's books so that students and
teachers can place them in the context for which they were
written.;The underlying thesis is: when J.K. Rowling wrote the
first Harry Potter title and planned the rest, she drew on her
considerable experience as a reader and, through her powers of
story telling, created a world of her own. What was initially
imitative has, with her gaining confidence, become witty pastiche
(or, as it was recently described, intertextuality). This, combined
with an unusual ability to tell a long story and to keep up a flow
of creative invention, has enabled her to create four absorbing
novels that have given story telling a good name for adults and
children alike.
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