'Harry Meets Hamlet and Scrooge' is John Granger's unedited manuscript that introduces English literature essentials using Harry Potter while simultaneously throwing light on the themes and meanings of Harry's Hogwarts Adventures via the 'Greats' of the tradition in which Rowling writes. Divided in four parts according to the traditional layers of meaning, the ten chapters explore Narratological Voice (Austen), Narrative Drive (Sayers, Dickens), the Schoolboy Novel setting (Blyton, Hughes), the Gothic props and morality (Bronte, Shelley, Stoker, others), the Postmodern themes (via Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!), Satire (Swift), Allegory (Bunyan), the Circle of a Hero’s Journey (Hodgson-Burnett, Nesbit, Dante), Literary Alchemy (Shakespeare, Dickens), and 'The Eyes of God' (Goudge, Coleridge, Lewis). This may be the ultimate lit-geek Potter-fan must-have item.
Complete with 30 pages of Chapter Notes and a selected 8 page bibliography -- but unedited and unimproved for 359... More > pages!
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