The ivory tower and Harry Potter [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives on a literary phenomenon / / Lana A. Whited, editor |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 408 p |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WhitedLana A. <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Children - Books and reading - English-speaking countries
Children's stories, English - History and criticism Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) Wizards in literature Magic in literature |
ISBN | 0-8262-6330-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Harry Potter -- I Harry's Cousins in the Magical Realm -- Harry Potter and the Secret Password -- The Education of a Wizard -- II Harry's Roots in Epic, Myth, and Folklore -- In Medias Res -- Of Magicals and Muggles -- Harry Potter -- III Harry's Other Literary Relatives -- Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary -- Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British School Story -- IV Greater than Gold in Gringotts -- Crowning the King -- What Would Harry Do? -- V Gender Issues and Harry Potter -- Hermione Granger and the Heritage of Gender -- Locating Harry Potter in the "Boys' Book" Market -- VI Harry's Language -- You Say "Jelly," I Say "Jell-O"? -- Harry Potter and the Tower of Babel -- VII Commodity and Culture in the World of Harry Potter -- Specters of Thatcherism -- Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic -- Apprentice Wizards Welcome -- About the Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822774003321 |
Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2002 | ||
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J. M. Coetzee's The childhood of Jesus : the ethics of ideas and things / / edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Jennifer Rutherford |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Soggetto topico | Ethics in literature |
ISBN |
1-5013-1865-9
1-5013-1863-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements 1. Introduction -- Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia) -- Section One: Philological and Philosophical Concerns -- 2. What Does J.M. Coetzee's Novel, The Childhood of Jesus Have To Do with the Childhood of Jesus? -- Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA) -- 3. Pathos of the Future: Writing and Hospitality in Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus -- Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- Section Two: Socio-Political Concerns -- 4. Thinking Through Shit in The Childhood of Jesus -- Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) -- 5. Coetzee's Republic: Plato, Borges, and Migrant Memory In The Childhood Of Jesus -- Lynda Ng (Sydney University, Australia) and Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia) -- Section Three: Intertextual Concerns -- 6. Creative Intuition: Coetzee, Plato, Bergson and Murnane -- Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia) -- 7. The Name of the Number: Transfinite Mathematics in The Childhood of Jesus -- Baylee Brits (University of New South Wales, Australia) -- Section Four: Ethical Concerns -- 8. J. M. Coetzee and the Parental Punctum -- Sue Kossew (Monash University, Australia) -- 9. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and the Moral Image of the World -- Tim Mehigan (University of Queensland, Australia) -- 10. Beyond the Literary Theme Park: J. M. Coetzee's Late Style in The Childhood of Jesus -- Yoshiki Tajiri (The University of Tokyo, Japan) -- Index. |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 | ||
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J.G. Ballard : landscapes of tomorrow / / edited by Richard Brown, Christopher Duffy, Elizabeth Stainforth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Dialogue |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-04-31386-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth -- Introduction / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth -- Shanghai/Shepperton / Fay Ballard -- J.G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai / Graham Matthews -- Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands / Thomas Knowles -- Zones of Non-time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction / Catherine McKenna -- Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” / Andrew Warstat -- Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition / Richard Brown -- Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition / Guglielmo Poli -- “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition / Elizabeth Stainforth -- Hidden Heterotopias in Crash / Christopher Duffy -- Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterization of High-Rise / William Fingleton -- Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come / Jeannette Baxter -- Index / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494743003321 |
Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016 | ||
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J.G. Ballard : landscapes of tomorrow / / edited by Richard Brown, Christopher Duffy, Elizabeth Stainforth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Dialogue |
ISBN | 90-04-31386-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth -- Introduction / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth -- Shanghai/Shepperton / Fay Ballard -- J.G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai / Graham Matthews -- Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands / Thomas Knowles -- Zones of Non-time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction / Catherine McKenna -- Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” / Andrew Warstat -- Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition / Richard Brown -- Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition / Guglielmo Poli -- “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition / Elizabeth Stainforth -- Hidden Heterotopias in Crash / Christopher Duffy -- Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterization of High-Rise / William Fingleton -- Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come / Jeannette Baxter -- Index / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798439803321 |
Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016 | ||
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J.G. Ballard : landscapes of tomorrow / / edited by Richard Brown, Christopher Duffy, Elizabeth Stainforth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Dialogue |
ISBN | 90-04-31386-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth -- Introduction / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth -- Shanghai/Shepperton / Fay Ballard -- J.G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai / Graham Matthews -- Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands / Thomas Knowles -- Zones of Non-time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction / Catherine McKenna -- Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” / Andrew Warstat -- Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition / Richard Brown -- Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition / Guglielmo Poli -- “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition / Elizabeth Stainforth -- Hidden Heterotopias in Crash / Christopher Duffy -- Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterization of High-Rise / William Fingleton -- Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come / Jeannette Baxter -- Index / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817169303321 |
Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016 | ||
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels : a reader's guide / Philip Nel. |
Autore | Nel, Philip, 1969- |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : Continuum, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 96 p. ; 19 cm. |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Continuum contemporaries |
Soggetto (Persona) | Rowling, J. K. Critica ed interpretazione |
Soggetto topico |
Potter, Harry (Fictitious character)
Children's stories, English - History and criticism Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism Children - Books and reading - English-speaking countries Wizards in literature Magic in literature |
ISBN | 0826452329 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991001362449707536 |
Nel, Philip, 1969-
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New York : Continuum, 2001 | ||
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J.M. Coetzee and ethics [[electronic resource] ] : philosophical perspectives on literature / / edited by Anton Leist & Peter Singer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LeistAnton <1947->
SingerPeter <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy in literature
Literature - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-74417-4
9786613789556 0-231-52024-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics -- The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee / Robert Pippin -- Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden -- Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear -- Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan -- Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality -- Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer -- Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola -- Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger -- Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. Coetzee / Andy Lamey -- Part III. Rationality and Human Lives -- Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism / Anton Leist -- Coetzee's Critique of Reason / Martin Woessner -- J.M. Cietzee, Moral Thinker / Alice Crary -- Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World / Pieter Vermeulen -- Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy -- Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice -- The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn -- Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm -- Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457866803321 |
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 | ||
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J.M. Coetzee and ethics [[electronic resource] ] : philosophical perspectives on literature / / edited by Anton Leist & Peter Singer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LeistAnton <1947->
SingerPeter <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy in literature
Literature - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-281-74417-4
9786613789556 0-231-52024-7 |
Classificazione |
08.38
18.07 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics -- The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee / Robert Pippin -- Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden -- Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear -- Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan -- Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality -- Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer -- Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola -- Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger -- Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. Coetzee / Andy Lamey -- Part III. Rationality and Human Lives -- Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism / Anton Leist -- Coetzee's Critique of Reason / Martin Woessner -- J.M. Cietzee, Moral Thinker / Alice Crary -- Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World / Pieter Vermeulen -- Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy -- Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice -- The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn -- Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm -- Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781526503321 |
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 | ||
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J.M. Coetzee and ethics : philosophical perspectives on literature / / edited by Anton Leist & Peter Singer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LeistAnton <1947->
SingerPeter <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy in literature
Literature - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-281-74417-4
9786613789556 0-231-52024-7 |
Classificazione |
08.38
18.07 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics -- The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee / Robert Pippin -- Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden -- Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear -- Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan -- Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality -- Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer -- Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola -- Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger -- Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. Coetzee / Andy Lamey -- Part III. Rationality and Human Lives -- Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism / Anton Leist -- Coetzee's Critique of Reason / Martin Woessner -- J.M. Cietzee, Moral Thinker / Alice Crary -- Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World / Pieter Vermeulen -- Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy -- Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice -- The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn -- Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm -- Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823445803321 |
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 | ||
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J.M. Coetzee and the idea of the public intellectual [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jane Poyner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PoynerJane |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century
Animal rights |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8214-4217-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Jane Poyner -- The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J.M. Coetzee and the public sphere / David Attwell -- The writer, the critic, and the censor : J.M. Coetzee and the question of literature / Peter D. McDonald -- Against allegory : 'Waiting for the barbarians,' 'Life & times of Michael K,' and the question of literary reading / Derek Attridge -- Death and the space of the response to the other in J.M. Coetzee's 'The master of Petersburg' / Michael Marais -- A belief in frogs : J.M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction / Dominic Head -- J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination / Sam Durrant -- Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace' / Elleke Boehmer -- Going to the dogs : humanity in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace,' 'The lives of animals,' and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Rosemary Jolly -- What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men / Michael Bell -- A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J.M. Coetzee's 'The life of animals' / Laura Wright -- Textual transvestism : the female voices of J.M. Coetzee / Lucy Graham. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454374203321 |
Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 | ||
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