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1 online resource (197 pages) |
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Literary Allusion in Harry Potter- Front Cover; Literary Allusion in Harry Potter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on texts used; Introduction; HARRY POTTER'S INTERNAL REFERENCES; OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS; Chapter 1: Harry Potter, Greek myth and epic storytelling; 'I BOUGHT HIM OFF A GREEK CHAPPIE': THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE ON HARRY POTTER; BEARING LIBATIONS: THE EPIGRAPH OF DEATHLY HALLOWS; TELLING STORIES: HOMER'S ORAL POETRY AND HARRY POTTER; HOMER'S ORAL NARRATIVE FORM; RING COMPOSITION/CHIASMUS; ODYSSEUS' SCAR |
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THE PENSIEVE AND HOMERIC SYMPATHYChapter 2: Naming in Harry Potter: Plato, Shakespeare and Ovid; PLATO AND CRATYLIC NAMES; ROWLING'S SHAKESPEAREAN NAMES: HERMIONE, HERMES AND HERMENEUTICS; HARRY POTTER'S OVIDIAN NAMES: REMUS; OVIDIAN NAMES: MEROPE; OVIDIAN NAMES: NARCISSA; CORRIDORS, UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS AND THREE-HEADED DOGS; Chapter 3: Harry Potter's Medieval Hallows: Chaucer and the Gawain-poet; GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT; JUDAS AND THE ELDER WAND; THE DEATHLY HALLOWS AND CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES |
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Chapter 4: The Temptation in the Desert and the Harrowing of Hell: Harry Potter, Mystery Plays and MiltonTHE TEMPTATION AND THE HARROWING; 'CERTAIN MESSIAH TRAITS'; VOLDEMORT AND DIVINE PARODY; TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE: MAD TOM OR EVIL LORD?; MILTON'S HIPPOGRIFF; THE TEMPTATION IN THE DESERT; CHRISTUS VICTOR AND THE HARROWING OF HELL; THE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT; Chapter 5: Comedy, tragicomedy and Shakespearean influence in Harry Potter; 'THE MACBETH IDEA': PROPHECY IN HARRY POTTER; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND THE ABUSE OF POWER; Chapter 6: Jane Austen: Rowling's favourite author |
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HOGWARTS AND HARTFIELDNARRATIVE VOICE; RIDDLES, FIREBOLTS AND PIANOFORTES; 'I AM GOING TO TAKE A HEROINE WHOM NO ONE BUT MYSELF WILL MUCH LIKE'; MRS NORRIS; AUSTEN'S ALLUSIONS; HOGWARTS AND THE GOTHIC; VANISHING CABINETS; AUSTEN, ROWLING AND THEIR READERS; Chapter 7: Brewing the language of love: Victorian novels, sonnets, Shakespeare and Snape; SEVERUS SNAPE AND SYDNEY CARTON; PETRARCHAN SONNETS AND THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE IN ROMEO AND JULIET; THE WHITE DOE: THE PETRARCHAN MISTRESS AND SNAPE'S PATRONUS; LOVE POTIONS, BLAZON AND PETRARCHAN CLICHÉ: LOVE-IN-VANE AND LOVE-IN-IDLENESS |
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MEROPE AND FANNY ROBINChapter 8: In Memoriam; HARRY POTTER'S CHIASTIC STRUCTURE: 'CLOSING THE CIRCLE'; CHIASMUS WITHIN IN MEMORIAM; WRITING TO REACH YOU: LITERARY ALLUSION AND MEMORY; VOICES BEHIND THE VEIL; Afterword; ROWLING AND DICKENS; DRAGON'S BLOOD; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Rowling, J. K. -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rowling, J. K. -- Characters -- Harry Potter
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Potter, Harry (Fictitious character)
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Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) fast |
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Rowling, J. K. fast |
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Allusions in literature.
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Wizards in literature.
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Magic in literature.
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Allusions in literature
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Children -- Books and reading
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Children's stories, English
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Magic in literature
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Wizards in literature
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English-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351978729 |
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1351978721 |
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