A wizard of their age : critical essays from the Harry Potter generation / Edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr ; with Contributing Editors Kate Glassman, Jenny McDougal, Sarah Wente, Evan Gaydos, Rachel Armstrong, Kalie Caetano, and Tréza Rosado ; foreword by Giselle Liza Anatol.
Sexual geometry of the golden trio : Hermione's subversion of traditional female subject positions / Rachel Armstrong. My Harry Potter story / Phillip Awayan and Maria Ignacio -- The Harry Potter phenomenon : locating the boy wizard in the tradition of the American bestseller / Kate Glassman -- Loading the canon : Harry Potter and fanfiction / Kate McManus -- The simulated world of Harry Potter / Kyle Bubb -- The wizard, the muggle, and the other : (post)colonialism in Harry Potter / Hannah Lamb -- The generation(s) of Harry Potter : the boy wizard and his young readers / Tréza Rosado -- My Harry Potter story / Lydia Fasteland and Richelle Ilanga -- The making of a new world : Nazi ideology and its influence on Harry Potter / Sarah Wente -- The nuances of mastering death : murder, capital punishment, and assisted suicide in Harry Potter / Kalie Caetano -- The wickedest of magical inventions : the separable soul in Harry Potter and medieval folklore / Sarah Sutor -- WWHPD : what would Harry Potter do? / Callie Knudslien -- Doubting Dumbledore / Jenny McDougal -- My Harry Potter story / Marion Basilio and Carrie Matthews -- Harry Potter and the wizard's gene : a genetic analysis of Potterworld / Courtney Agar and Julia Terk -- Give nature a wand and it will nurture magic / Kiah Bizal -- A nursing care plan for Tom Riddle / Kari Newell -- Literary arithmancy : an analysis of number symbolism in Harry Potter / Evan Gaydos -- Sexual geometry of the golden trio : Hermione's subversion of traditional female subject positions / Rachel Armstrong.
Summary:
A Wizard of Their Age began when the students in Cecilia Konchar Farr's "Six Degrees of Harry Potter" course at St. Catherine University kept finding errors in the available scholarship. These students had been reading Harry Potter for their entire literate lives, and they demanded more attention to the details they found significant. "We can do better than this," they said. Konchar Farr, two undergraduate teaching assistants, and five student editors decided to test that hypothesis. After issuing a call for contributions, they selected fifteen thoughtful academic essays by students from across the country. These essays examine the Harry Potter books from a variety of perspectives, including literary, historical, cultural, gender, mythological, psychological, theological, and genetic -- there is even a nursing care plan for Tom Riddle. Interspersed among the essays are brief vignettes entitled "My Harry Potter Story," where students write about their personal encounters with the novels.
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