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Harry Potter's World Wide Influence

Name: Harry Potter's World Wide Influence
Author: Diana Patterson
ISBN: 9781443813945

by Diana Patterson (Editor)

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Synopsis

The Harry Potter series forms a single epic story that has been published in nearly 70 languages, and has been examined in a large number of disciplines. This collection of essays contributes to the scholarly discourse that forms 'Potter Studies'. These essays take on the consideration of Rowling's work as being worthy of study as a phenomenon and influence, as well as a work of literary value. They add genuine statistical information about the reasons for the books' popularity, consider their effects onchild readers, and examine some deep-rooted reasons for their having been manipulated in American publishing, in film adaptations, in musical complements, and in their thingification in popular culture around the world. Some of these essays take on the critics of the books' religion and considerations of psychological, as well as philosophical good and evil, and some stylistic anomalies. The fact that scholars from China, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Israel, in addition to English-speaking nations, havefelt compelled to examine these books in detail testifies in part to Harry Potter's world-wide influence. --from back cover.