Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions

by Tison Pugh

Book Overview

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Weaving together elements of fantasy, the school-story novel, detective fiction, allegory, and bildungsroman, the Harry Potter novels evade simplistic categorization as children's or fantasy literature. Because the Potter series both breaks new ground and adheres to longstanding narrative formulas, readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643360876
• ISBN13: 9781643360874
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"