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By hillarh | January 16, 2008
The article “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic” is an article written by Elizabeth Teare that analyzes J. K. Rowling’s book series, Harry Potter. In the first part of this article Elizabeth Teare says that she, “will argue that the stories the books tell, as well as the stories we’re telling about them, enact both our fantasies and our fears of children’s literature and publishing in the context of the twenty-first century commercial and technological culture. Elizabeth Teare looks deeper into the text of Rowling’s novels and talks about how her novels relate to the twenty-first century concerning the commercial culture as well as the technologies consumed and how it forms the purchasing of children’s books. Teare notes how Rowling’s fictional book can teach even children the significance of culture, such as Rowling’s aim toward twenty-first century culture. One of the main points that Teare emphasizes is how in today’s society books are competing with technological entertainment such as video games and how Harry Potter became a societal phenomenon. The second part of this argument has Teare arguing how Harry Potter books try to creatively solve the problem found in book and children culture which is consumer goods and media. Here Teare chooses certain scenes from Harry Potter and picks out different themes from the book as well as different character representation, and one of the biggest aspects is that Teare finds parallels from our world and Harry Potter’s magical world.
Work Cited
Teare, Elizabeth. “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic.” The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literacy Phenomenon 2002. Rpt. in From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Stuert Green and April Lidinsky. New York: Bedord, 2008. 800-14.
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