HogPro All-Pro David Gras Hosts SVA!
October 16, 2009
Check out the Aurora Advocate article describing Steve Vander Ark’s talk in Aurora, Ohio! At the bottom, you’ll find the YouTube clip of David Gras, good friend of that blog, introducing Mr. Lexicon to the crowd of serious readers.
Alecto Carrow: Hesiod, Dante, Eliot, Rowling
October 16, 2009
How about that author name-dropping in the post title? Top that set…
Today’s name exegesis is of one of my favorite Death Eaters, Alecto Carrow, whose performance at the Ravenclaw door just before the Battle of Hogwarts with Professor MacGonagall by itself is sufficient to put him at the head of their class. I want to focus here on the name ‘Alecto’ to propose how Ms. Rowling wants us to understand the take-over at Hogwarts School in Deathly Hallows.
If you go to Wikipedi…
Lack of Updates
October 13, 2009
I’m sorry for the lack of updates by the last few months, things in my personal life have come up and unfortunately been keeping me from updating. I’m hoping that will change soon although I might not be able to update regularly again until at least December.
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George MacDonald: The Mirrors of the Lord
October 8, 2009
Robert Trexler, editor of CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society and at Zossima Press, a George MacDonald scholar, and HogPro All-Pro to boot, sent me that essay from George MacDonald’s Unspoken Sermons. I run it in full here not to proselytize or construct theological points (be fore-warned, it is a sermon not a literary criticism essay) but considering I think it demonstrates something I have asserted about Ms. Rowling’s use of eyes, mirrors, and Harry being a symbol…
Can You Say “Shared Text”?
October 7, 2009
Try to understand that scoop from The Stanford Daily, The Pensieve: Harry Potter and the Stanford Bubble, without a thorough knowledge of all seven Potter books. The title, premise, and argument of the whole piece is that you, the reader, know Harry’s adventures so well that I, the writer, have to explain absolutely nothing about it. The Hogwarts Saga is the foundation of the conversation, the cultural ‘given.’
Harry is the Shared Text of the 21st Century. I have a hard day ima…
J. K. Rowling Denied Medal of Freedom?
October 3, 2009
Must all political partisanship and culture war battles eventually involve Ms. Rowling and Harry Potter? Perhaps.
The latest proof that we live in the End Times, when everything that is possible must happen before the apocalypse (e.g., watermelon flavored ice cream, the Cubs winning a World Series, the Dalai Lama being refused an audience at the White House), is that The Daily Prophet, aka the BBC, is reporting that Joanne Rowling was denied the Presidential Medal of Freedom (PMOF) by President …