Critical perspectives on Harry Potter

Introduction : fostering insight through multiple critical perspectives / Elizabeth E. Heilman

I. Perspectives on identity and morality.

1. Controversial content : Is Harry Potter harmful to children? / Deborah J. Taub and Heather L. Servaty-Seib

2. Harry Potter and Christian theology / Peter Ciaccio

3. Harry Potter's world as a morality tale of technology and media / Nicholas Sheltrown

4. Is desire beneficial or harmful in the Harry Potter series? / Taija Piippo

5. The great Snape debate / Peter Appelbaum

II. Critical and sociological perspectives.

6. Schooling Harry Potter : teachers and learning, power and knowledge / Megan L. Birch

7. Comedy, quest, and community : home and family in Harry Potter / John Kornfeld and Laurie Prothro

8. From sexist to (sort-of) feminist : representations of gender in the Harry Potter series / Elizabeth E. Heilman and Trevor Donaldson

9. Monsters, creatures, and pets at Hogwarts : animal stewardship in the world of Harry Potter / Peter Dendle

10. Harry Potter, the war against evil, and the melodramatization of public culture / Marc Bousquet

III. Literacy elements and interpretations.

11. Playing the genre game : generic fusions of the Harry Potter series / Anne Hiebert Alton

12. Harry Potter and the secrets of children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva

13. Harry Potter and the horrors of the Oresteia / Alice Mills

14. Philosopher's Stone to resurrection stone : narrative transformations and intersecting cultures across the Harry Potter series / Kate Behr

IV. Cultural studies and media perspectives.

15. Lost in translation? : Harry Potter, from page to screen / Philip Nel

16. The migration of media : Harry Potter in print and pixels / Anna Gunder

17. Writing Harry's world : children co-authoring Hogwarts / Ernest L. Bond and Nancy L. Michelson

18. Pottermania : good, clean fun or cultural hegemony? / Tammy Turner-Vorbeck.