The Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us About Moral Choices
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Categories: Harry Potter->Criticism and interpretation, Didactic fiction, English->History and criticism, Fantasy literature, English->History and criticism. Contributors: Edmund M. Kern - Author. Format: Paperback
K. Rowling's first novel - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - no series of children's books has been more incredibly popular or widely influential. How do we explain the enormous appeal of these stories to children? Should parents welcome this new interest in reading among their kids or worry, along with the critics, that the books encourage either moral complacency or a perverse interest in witchcraft and the occult?
In this original interpretation of the Harry Potter sensation, Edmund M. Kern argues that the attraction of these stories to children comes not only from the fantastical elements embedded in the plots, but also from their underlying moral messages. Children genuinely desire to follow Harry, Harry potter
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Categories: Harry Potter->Criticism and interpretation, Didactic fiction, English->History and criticism, Fantasy literature, English->History and criticism. Contributors: Edmund M. Kern - Author. Format: Paperback
Categories: Harry Potter->Criticism and interpretation, Didactic fiction, English->History and criticism, Fantasy literature, English->History and criticism. Contributors: Edmund M. Kern - Author. Format: Paperback
Categories: Harry Potter->Criticism and interpretation, Didactic fiction, English->History and criticism, Fantasy literature, English->History and criticism. Contributors: Edmund M. Kern - Author. Format: Paperback
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