Guides: ENG 380Topics in Literature: Harry Potter: Home

Search Pepperdine's eBook Collections

Databases for Literary Research

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 145,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index of journal articles, books, and dissertations, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.5 million citations from more than 5,000 journals and series and 1,200 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

In addition, The MLA Directory of Periodicals and the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the Bibliography are included.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, & III, IV, and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering subject disciplines in Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.

Online Books

Heroism in the Harry Potter Series by Katrin Berndt; Lena Steveker
ISBN: 9781409412458
Publication Date: 2011-03-28
This collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The collection's three sections address broad issues related to genre, Harry Potter's development as the central heroic character and the question of who qualifies as a hero in the Harry Potter series.
Reading Harry Potter Again: new critical essays by Giselle Liza Anatol (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313361975
Publication Date: 2009-05-19
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books could easily be called this generation's most formative narratives, and thus certainly warrant critical attention. This new volume of essays covers the entire seven-book sequence. Contributors consider myriad themes from a variety of perspectives. Areas addressed include religion, morality, race, magic, and other themes popular in discussing the books.
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy by William Irwin (Editor); Gregory Bassham (Editor); William Irwin (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470627341
Publication Date: 2011-02-11
A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter series Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series special.

Useful Subject Terms for Searching the Library Catalog

su:Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) - ebooks only

su:Rowling, J K Criticism and interpretation - all formats

su:Rowling, J K Characters Harry Potter - all formats

Course Description

This course is a literary study of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. We will discuss the initial appeal of the books as well as their enduring qualities. We will examine other readers’ reactions to and analyses of the novels, including those of contemporary reviewers, academics, enthusiastic supporters, and adverse critics. In addition, we will consider some distinctions between popular and “serious” literature and between children’s and adult fiction. We will also discuss many of the readings of the Harry Potter texts with regard to several themes and critical approaches to literature (such as Christian, feminist, sociological, and philosophical interpretations).

Librarian

Elizabeth Parang

Email Me

Contact:

Pepperdine University Libraries
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, CA 90263

310-506-4046

Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Art, Art History, Creative Writing, Education, English 101 & 100, English Literature, Humanities, Literature, Music, Psychology