Defend OOTP against my horribly Muggle mind!

[Carleen Ibrahim]

No: HPFGUIDX 76450



Wiley wrote:

> I have to side with the people who feel criticizing the series is a
> bit pretentious.  For cripe's sake, people...this is young adult
> literature, not Joyce or Tolkein or Hemmingway.  I don't ever expect
> Rowling to be brought up in a university literature course.

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Actually, I teach literature at a university in Southern California and
require my students, the majority of whom will become elementary school
teachers, to read the first book in the series.  Although I assign the book
because the class deals with issues of classroom censorship, and the HP
books fall under heavy censure in many areas of the US, I also manage to
work in a discussion of the ways in which Harry fits the model of an epic
hero and follows Joseph Campbell's heroic quest.

Carleen
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