Article Summary
I read the article “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic”, by Elizabeth Teare. This is an academic article, in which Teare’s thesis is, “I will argue that the stories the books tell, as well as the stories we’re telling about them, enact both our fantasies and our fears of children’s literature and publishing in the context of twenty-first-century commercial and technological culture” (802). Her main points are that Harry Potter is a world of non-commodity culture; how to hook younger readers, how it beat it’s competitors, and its popularity.
Works Cited
Teare, Elizabeth. “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic.” The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter 2002. Rpt. In From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Stuart Green and April Lidinsky. New York: Bedford, 2008.