[HPforGrownups] Technology/Magic (was Re: The Muggle World (long))

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 6321

atelecky at mit.edu wrote:

> >
> > http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0001/reviews/jacobs.html
> >
> > This discusses magic as an alternative technology to the technology
> we know
> > (and the author of the essay points out that not too long ago, magic
> and
> > technology were considered to be more closely linked than they are
> today).
> >
> > Peg
>
> Thanks for posting that link--it's a neat essay. Aside from the
> discussions of the book on lists such as this one, I haven't seen
> many, or really any, written about the Potter books. (that is, other
> than those which simply deal with the fact of their considerable
> commercial success or some one of the various controversies about
> them)
>
> Alexandra

If you search the archives for message #459, I posted a whole bunch of
interesting and useful links back in August.

One was:  http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/hpreview.htm

which is a bunch of critical articles gathered together by the University of
Wisconsin.

Here's another rather interesting article, which appeared in the New
Republic:

http://www.tnr.com/112299/siegel112299.html

Anyway, go to message #459, as I said.  You'll find enough there to keep you
out of trouble for a good long while.

Cheers,
Peg

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