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Aug 16, 2016 Lucy rated it really liked it
3.5 stars to be honest. I accidentaly found this book in my Uni's library and since I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I had never read a book of critical essays on Harry Potter I decided to borrow it and give it a chance. The book is split into four parts * "Harry the teenager: muggle themes in magical adolescence" * "Religion and morality" * "Politics of Harry Potter: issues of gender, race and class" * "Socio-cultural impact of the Harry Potter series" and in each we can find essays on those subjec3.5 stars to be honest. I accidentaly found this book in my Uni's library and since I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I had never read a book of critical essays on Harry Potter I decided to borrow it and give it a chance. The book is split into four parts * "Harry the teenager: muggle themes in magical adolescence" * "Religion and morality" * "Politics of Harry Potter: issues of gender, race and class" * "Socio-cultural impact of the Harry Potter series" and in each we can find essays on those subjects. I personally found the first part of the book the most interesting and even though some of the other essays were strong I felt the book deflated by the end. I also felt that most of the time the authors had already a desired conclusion in mind before even writing the essay and that, to me, made the whole analysis a bit forced. Overall it was an enjoyable and entertaining reading, and I'd highly recommend this book to any Harry Potter fan. ...more
As with most compiled critical essays, there are some hits and misses. Chantal M. Lavoie's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lies in Harry Potter"; Patricia Donaher and James M. Okapal's "Causation, Prophetic Visions, and the Free Will Question in Harry Potter"; Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith's "Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest for the Domestic"; and Leslee Friedman's "Militant Literacy: Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge, and the (Mis)use of Text" are some of As with most compiled critical essays, there are some hits and misses. Chantal M. Lavoie's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lies in Harry Potter"; Patricia Donaher and James M. Okapal's "Causation, Prophetic Visions, and the Free Will Question in Harry Potter"; Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith's "Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest for the Domestic"; and Leslee Friedman's "Militant Literacy: Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge, and the (Mis)use of Text" are some of the stronger pieces. Others are less interesting or seem to be grasping at straws.
As a whole, the book has a lot of interesting critical analysis, but it could have been better curated. There also should have been a more stringent editor - typos and jarring errors like mistaking Sirius for Snape and Lucius for Malfoy (from different essays) are too frequent. I'm not unhappy to have read this, however.
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A great entry point to criticism of Harry Potter. This work is superior to its predecessor 'Reading Harry Potter' in that it examines all seven books and is not limited to the first four. Insightful. A great entry point to criticism of Harry Potter. This work is superior to its predecessor 'Reading Harry Potter' in that it examines all seven books and is not limited to the first four. Insightful. ...more
Jul 06, 2013 Frida rated it liked it
I enjoyed the theological chapters and the chapter about "choice".. But some of the essays I felt were written with more feeling than reason.I enjoyed the theological chapters and the chapter about "choice".. But some of the essays I felt were written with more feeling than reason. ...more
Giselle Liza Anatol is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. In addition to editing two collections of critical essays on the Harry Potter books, she has published a number of scholarly journal articles.
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