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Children's and Young Adult Literature

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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2003

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter novels

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Wizards And Wainscots: Generic Structures And Genre Themes In The Harry Potter Series, Kerrie Anne Le Lievre Jun 2003

Wizards And Wainscots: Generic Structures And Genre Themes In The Harry Potter Series, Kerrie Anne Le Lievre

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines the Harry Potter series as an example of a “high fantasy scenario within the structure of a wainscot fantasy”—that is, high fantasy themes taking place in a world of two parallel cultures, one an “invisible or undetected” society existing “in the interstices of the dominant world.”