Who's in charge, DD or JKR?
carin_in_oh
aldhelm at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 29 21:59:49 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 103464
> Potioncat:
> Very good post! We all seem to forget from time to time that
> someone really is directing all this.
Carin: <blushes>
Thank you! Yes, that's it. Further thoughts: We can and should read the HP books
both as mysteries and as novels. In the former case, we take facts within the
Potterverse as facts and attempt to draw logical conclusions from them about future
and past facts within the 'verse. In the latter case, we interest ourselves in things like
the allusive and symbolic structures of the books and the series: similarities,
oppositions, balance, patterns of internal reference. Matters of authorial habit and
intention are relevant to both kinds of interpretation. The fact that we have a living
author who feeds us tidbits between books about her plans (including discarded
plans) as well as facts about plot and character, and that we call all of this
undifferentiatedly "Canon", means that we need to remind ourselves occasionally
about what kind of interpretation we're engaged in at any given moment.
Carin
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