Re-Reading Harry Potter

Part I. The Text-to-World Approach

1. Book Covers
Suman Gupta

2. Children and Adults
Suman Gupta

3. The Seriousness of Social and Political Effects
Suman Gupta

4. Text-to-World Assumptions (Some General Definitions)
Suman Gupta

5. A Thought about Open and Closed Texts
Suman Gupta

6. The Irrelevance of J.K. Rowling
Suman Gupta

7. Children’s Literature
Suman Gupta

8. Fantasy Literature
Suman Gupta

9. Religious Perspectives
Suman Gupta

10. Locations and Limitations
Suman Gupta

Part II. Reading the Harry Potter Novels

11. Three Worlds
Suman Gupta

12. Repetition and Progression
Suman Gupta

13. Evasive Allusions
Suman Gupta

14. Blood
Suman Gupta

15. Servants and Slaves
Suman Gupta

16. The Question of Class
Suman Gupta

17. Desire
Suman Gupta

18. The Magic System of Advertising
Suman Gupta

19. Movie Magic
Suman Gupta

20. The Beginning
Suman Gupta

Part III. World-to-Text

21. Reading Re-Reading Harry Potter
Suman Gupta

22. The Bulgarian Connection in Harry Potter
Milena Katsarska

23. Harry Potter in China
Suman Gupta

24. The Harry Potter Fan Fiction Text
Suman Gupta

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Children's Literature, Fiction, Film and Television Studies