{"product_id":"open-at-the-close-literary-essays-on-harry-potter-paperback","title":"Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCecilia Konchar Farr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley, Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite their decades-long, phenomenal success, the \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/i\u003e novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. While popular books, articles, blogs, and fan sites for general readers proliferate, and while philosophers, historians, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and even business professors have taken on book-length studies and edited essay collections about \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/i\u003e, literature scholars, outside of the children's books community, have paid few serious visits to the Potterverse. Could it be that scholars are still reluctant to recognize popular novels, especially those with genre labels \"children's literature\" or \"fantasy,\" as worthy subjects for academic study? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literary culture. In \u003ci\u003eOpen at the Close\u003c\/i\u003e, contributors consciously address \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/i\u003e primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. They interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: \u003ci\u003eWhat is it about these books?\u003c\/i\u003e At their heart, what is it that makes the \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter \u003c\/i\u003enovels so exceptionally compelling, so irresistible to their readers, and so relevant in our time?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecilia Konchar Farr\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English and dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at West Liberty University in West Virginia. Among her publications are \u003ci\u003eThe Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads\u003c\/i\u003e; and a student-generated collection of essays about the \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/i\u003e novels, \u003ci\u003eA Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also taught a magical three-week study abroad in the UK that was all \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter \u003c\/i\u003eall the time and was, among other roles, assistant headmistress of the Gryffindor Tower Residential Learning Community at St. Catherine University in Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53096622096495,"sku":"9781496839329","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/NG5VZTZzVjNxK3dMcHJnQU1FakZHQT09.webp?v=1778856726","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/open-at-the-close-literary-essays-on-harry-potter-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}