If Harry Potter Were a Perianesthesia Nurse

As if by Magic: On Harry Potter as a Novel and Computer Game

This paper examines the computer game Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in relation to the novel with the same title. The analysis focuses on the temporal aspects of the works, and differences and similarities regarding both media structure and artistic devices are described. The notion of content space is central and a distinction is made between information content space, action conten...

Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience

Kara Lynn Andersen, in her paper "Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience," argues for a rethinking of assumptions of child audiences as passive readers and viewers through an analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Andersen argues that instead of categorizing children as passive and homogenous subjects of analysis, they should instead be incorporated as participants in the discourse a...

Brand New Critical Essays on Harry Potter

enjoy more popularity than Robinson itself. For example, the story of Genoveve exploits the Robinsonian theme in that its heroine leads a solitary life in the wilderness, physically isolated from other people. Genoveve was staged in Croatia as early as 1732, while Campe’s Robinson was first published in Croatian in 1796. For another century, Genoveve, translated into Croatian from the German ve...

Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children.

Crafting a Masterpiece : The Genre Mosaic of Harry Potter