Author: Cecilia Konchar Farr
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496839358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Contributions 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 Despite their decades-long, phenomenal success, the Harry Potter 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 Harry Potter, 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? 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 Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter 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: What is it about these books? At their heart, what is it that makes the Harry Potter novels so exceptionally compelling, so irresistible to their readers, and so relevant in our time?

Author: Martin Lister
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Martin Lister
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Emmanuel D. Bradley
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Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: United States. Philippine Commission (1899-1900)
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Includes information by the Commission and various public officials and agencies on the economic, social, geographic and local governmental development of the Philippines.

Author: United States. Philippine Commission, 1900-1916
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Publisher: Rastogi Publications
ISBN: 9788171339112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1384

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Author: Jonas Braasch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030150461
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument’s standard mouthpiece with different tone generators. Using the concrete example of the soprano saxophone, it describes how, with six other tone generators, including brass, double reed, and free reed mechanisms, the saxophone can be extended to nearly every wind instrument category in the von Hornbostel and Sachs classification system. The book demonstrates how it is possible to play these instrument variations with high proficiency, and describes the method of hyper-specialization, including acoustical insights, conservatory training methods and the underlying philosophy. The latter is based on the cultural traditions of the different wind instrument prototypes and the Deep Listening philosophy of cultivating internal diversity, and approach that leads to a new level of wind instrument virtuosity that offers great timbral variety combined with the flexibility of a regular acoustic wind instrument.

Author: United States. War Dept
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 918

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Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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