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Beschreibung
Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, ""Hermione-Approved"" MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse authors in the volume provide a range of interpretations of wizarding world stories. Essays include analysis of genre conventions, literary and religious symbolism, the role of games in the series, pedagogical approaches, and politically challenging issues like U.S. race relations, colonialism, and gender and sexuality--including direct attention to J.K. Rowling's controversial statements about trans people.
Grouped into the sections ""Occult Knowledge,"" ""Ancient Magic,"" ""A Question of Character,"" ""Self and Other,"" ""Playing Potter,"" and ""Teaching, the Hogwarts Way,"" partnered essays precede transcripts of podcast conversations, led by the hosts of Potterversity. The book's essays and conversations aim to engage not only the mind but the spirit as well--the emotional, personal, and moral responses the Potterverse has evoked in so many people around the world. Fundamentally, this book demonstrates that the characters, stories, and situations of the magical realm promote thinking that helps us navigate our more mundane but no less dangerous world. Perhaps even more importantly, they help us to recognize the magic amid our everyday Muggle realities.
Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, ""Hermione-Approved"" MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse authors in the volume provide a range of interpretations of wizarding world stories. Essays include analysis of genre conventions, literary and religious symbolism, the role of games in the series, pedagogical approaches, and politically challenging issues like U.S. race relations, colonialism, and gender and sexuality--including direct attention to J.K. Rowling's controversial statements about trans people.
Grouped into the sections ""Occult Knowledge,"" ""Ancient Magic,"" ""A Question of Character,"" ""Self and Other,"" ""Playing Potter,"" and ""Teaching, the Hogwarts Way,"" partnered essays precede transcripts of podcast conversations, led by the hosts of Potterversity. The book's essays and conversations aim to engage not only the mind but the spirit as well--the emotional, personal, and moral responses the Potterverse has evoked in so many people around the world. Fundamentally, this book demonstrates that the characters, stories, and situations of the magical realm promote thinking that helps us navigate our more mundane but no less dangerous world. Perhaps even more importantly, they help us to recognize the magic amid our everyday Muggle realities.
Über den Autor
Kathryn N. McDaniel is McCoy Professor of History at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, and specializes in intersections of history and popular culture. She co-hosts Potterversity: A Potter Studies Podcast. Emily Strand teaches comparative religion and cultural competence courses at Mt. Carmel College in Columbus, Ohio. She co-hosts the podcasts Potterversity and Meet Father Rivers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Your Potterversity Orientation

Kathryn N. McDaniel and Emily Strand

Occult Knowledge

Good Men and Monsters: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Harry Potter

Beatrice Groves

Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia

Amy H. Sturgis

Conversation: Occult Knowledge

Ancient Magic

Here Be Dragons and Phoenixes: A Thematic Direction for the Fantastic Beasts Series

Lana A. Whited

The Real Magic of Christmas in Harry Potter

Emily Strand

Conversation: Ancient Magic

A Question of Character

Padfoot Revelio! The Life and Love of Sirius Black

Emma Nicholson

The Weasley Witches: From Snitches to Stitches to "­Not-My-Daughter-You-Bitches"

Louise M. Freeman

Arthur Weasley and the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts

Kathryn N. McDaniel

Conversation: A Question of Character

Self and Others

The Problem with Loving Enemies: Kindness and Oppression in "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"

Travis Prinzi

Uncle Remus's Shack: Tokenism in the Wizarding World

­Mark-Anthony Lewis

Conversation: Self and Others

Playing Potter

It's All Fun and Games Until...: Leisurely and Competitive Pursuits in Harry Potter and Chivalric Romance

Laurie Beckoff

Gamifying the Harry Potter Studies Classroom

Tison Pugh

Conversation: Playing Potter

Teaching, the Hogwarts

Dumbledorisms: The Idiosyncratic Style of a Hogwarts Headmaster

M'Balia Thomas

Hem Hem... I Take Umbridge with Bigotry: Using the ­Witch-in-Pink to Counter Oppression

Brent A. Satterly

Conversation: Teaching, the Hogwarts Way

Before the Dismissal Bell: Closing Thoughts

Kathryn N. McDaniel

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781476690537
ISBN-10: 1476690537
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: McDaniel, Kathryn N.
Strand, Emily
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Kathryn N. McDaniel (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,468 kg
Artikel-ID: 127956949