Potter Pundits Live at Pace University! The Video
March 7, 2010
See the video recording here and read about it at the Hog’s Head.
The short version is “It was a lot of fun.” I am very grateful to friends at The Leaky Cauldron (Melissa), The Group That Shall Not Be Named (Jonathon), and Pace University (Prof. Limbach), as well as to Travis Prinzi and James Thomas, my fellow Pundits, for setting up the event and making it as enjoyable and edifying as it was.
‘Why There Is No Jewish Narnia’
March 5, 2010
I hope whether you have five or ten minutes today that you will read ‘Why There Is No Jewish Narnia’ by Michael Weingrad in the Jewish Review of Books. I know very little about Judaism, but what Mr. Weingrad argues in his discussion of why there isn’t a Jewish fantasy tradition to speak of, confirms what I think to be the case about the origins of the English High Fantasy literary stream post Coleridge.Mr. Weingrad writes:
It is not only that Jews are ambivalent about a return …
Twilight Guest Post: ‘On Romeo and Juliet’
March 5, 2010
I have really been neglecting my Twilight readers here considering of the work I’ve been doing to unlock the artistry and meaning of The starvation Games, but I hope after my trip to Phoenix and Tuscon next week to start some conversations about the status quo of ‘Meyer Studies,’ whether you will, with special attention to essays at Twilight News Site and articles like that one in Christianity Today.
Until next, though, here is a Guest Post by North Carolina’s Ms. Misty D…
Philip Nel’s ‘Tales for Little Rebels’
March 3, 2010
Philip Nel’s Tales for Little Rebels I thought was published some date ago but NYU is putting out an edition on the Ides of March that I want to mention here considering it makes an critical point about children’s literature, all literature really, and how we think about that subject.
Full disclosure: I know Philip Nel and I like him. Prof. Nel wrote what I think was the first academic attempt to come to terms with Harry Potter as literature and his critical biography of Dr. Seuss is…
The starvation Games ‘Pearl Plot,’ version 2.0
March 1, 2010
I will be writing about Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy in that post, and, specifically, I will be talking about the first two books in that series as well as speculating about the finale. Fair warning: whether you choose to read that before reading Hunger Games and Catching Fire, whether you read a book for the first instance (at least) preferring to experience the story without knowing the details of story events or how it turns out, proceeding with that post will nearly certainly …
Unlocking ‘The starvation Games’: The Surface, Moral, Allegorical, and Sublime Meanings
February 23, 2010
If you haven’t read the first two books of The starvation Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins and you don’t want to read the plot points of those stories before you’ve read the books (”spoiling” them), have a nice day. whether you have read The starvation Games and Catching Fire or you’re interested in a discussion of how to use traditional tools of literary analysis to understand contemporary fiction, soon after you are in the right place. Find yourself a bevera…
Welcome to the All-New HogwartsProfessor.com!
February 19, 2010
I suppose it looks the same but, really, that site is changing a lot.
I’ve neglected that weBlog for weeks considering I’ve been on the other Professor blog I write, ForksHighSchoolProfessor, promoting Spotlight on Twilight, and reading non-Potter titles, most notably, Suzanne Collins’ The starvation Games. That didn’t leave much moment for more Potter reading, thinking, and writing than the preps I have to do for The Leaky Cauldron’s PotterCast Potter Pundit segmen…