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Article: Wizards and wainscots: generic structures and genre themes in the Harry Potter series.(Critical Essay)
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- June 22, 2003
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THE central theme of the twentieth-century genre fantasy novel epitomised by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is frequently described simply as the conflict between Evil and Good. In The Comedy of the Fantastic: Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel, however, Don D. Elgin suggests that genre fantasy does not in fact deal with "evil" and "good," at least as abstract moral concepts. Rather, it uses the discrete theatre of the Secondary World as a site for the exploration, comparison and judgement of two opposing and mutually exclusive paradigms of imaginative response to the environment within which human beings exist: one which constructs that environment as ...
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Article: Harry Potter Fantasy Book Series Is Luring Kids ...
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... ... favor of reading about the adventures of Harry Potter, a young wizard learning to deal with ... recently became interested in the Harry Potter books that older brother Max, 12 ... the computer because I want to read Harry Potter or Goosebumps." In this age of electronic ...
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