- Gebundene Ausgabe: 118 Seiten
- Verlag: Verso; Auflage: 1st Edition (9. Juli 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1859846661
- ISBN-13: 978-1859846667
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 14,1 x 1,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 457.974 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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An exploration of the }Harry Potter{ phenomenon, which describes the series in terms of the literary equivalent of a Big Mac, and raises important questions about the publishing industry, bookselling and film-making.
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As the British state begins to unravel, and journalists compete to pronounce on the death of Britain, a schoolboy from suburban Surrey who lives for most of the year in a semi-parallel universe becomes the most popular figure in contemporary world literature. Now read on ...everyone else does ...Harry Potter is an orphan, oppressed and abused by the adults around him, who retreats into a fantasy world. But ironically, as Andrew Blake makes clear, J.K. Rowling rescues her character through the reinvention of that apex of class privilege, the English public school, a literary conceit that problematises Harry Potter's status as a role model and raises important social questions about the state of Blair's Britain. Andrew Blake's examination of the Harry Potter phenomenon the literary equivalent of fast food also raises serious questions about the condition of the publishing industry, and filmmaking, and the ways in which the Potter consumer campaign has changed our ideas about literature and reading. Blake reflects on the ways in which these connections act as a template for Harry Potter's extraordinary international success.
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Way Too Thin for your Money!
24. Dezember 2005
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First of all, I only rated this one star because I can't rate it none. Secondly, I'm glad I bought this second hand because its about 1/4 inch thick.
Thirdly, this is not a good book. Like the previous reviewer stated, Blake seems to be trying to answer why Harry Potter is so popular, but he never really does. He provides a whole bunch of statistics like The Labour Party came into power in the same year Harry was published. So what? This isn't enough. (Not to mention that Fudge has often been called a parody of Tony Blair). He cites a lot of coincidences and contemporaneous events, but doesn't do much with them. Many of his arguments are very thin. He uses the example of Harry relaxing by playing Qudditch in a scene from Book Four to argue that in the books "Retail therapy and sport substitute for emotional contact." Clearly this guy has no clue what he's talking about. One wonders if it is not Blake who has the problem with emotional contact--obviously, he could not emotionally connect with the books.
Which brings up the main reason why this book is so bad--Blake never took the time to read the books thoroughly and analyze them thoroughly. I got the impression he had casually read through them maybe one time. He never analyzes them beyond a casual recital of the plot. The books are used as mere examples of his thin social and political theories, with a cold, Professor Binns-like indifference.
His attitude is insensitive, condescending, cynical, and patronizing, to the point that one wonders why in the world he wrote this book at all? I can only think it was to try and cash in on the phenomenon. Why, for example, is the lettering on the spine exactly like the "magical" lettering of the American versions?
I would advise you NOT to waste your money. Its only 116 SMALL pages with LARGE print.
I would recommend The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter instead. That is full of interesting ideas and its well worth the price.
Thirdly, this is not a good book. Like the previous reviewer stated, Blake seems to be trying to answer why Harry Potter is so popular, but he never really does. He provides a whole bunch of statistics like The Labour Party came into power in the same year Harry was published. So what? This isn't enough. (Not to mention that Fudge has often been called a parody of Tony Blair). He cites a lot of coincidences and contemporaneous events, but doesn't do much with them. Many of his arguments are very thin. He uses the example of Harry relaxing by playing Qudditch in a scene from Book Four to argue that in the books "Retail therapy and sport substitute for emotional contact." Clearly this guy has no clue what he's talking about. One wonders if it is not Blake who has the problem with emotional contact--obviously, he could not emotionally connect with the books.
Which brings up the main reason why this book is so bad--Blake never took the time to read the books thoroughly and analyze them thoroughly. I got the impression he had casually read through them maybe one time. He never analyzes them beyond a casual recital of the plot. The books are used as mere examples of his thin social and political theories, with a cold, Professor Binns-like indifference.
His attitude is insensitive, condescending, cynical, and patronizing, to the point that one wonders why in the world he wrote this book at all? I can only think it was to try and cash in on the phenomenon. Why, for example, is the lettering on the spine exactly like the "magical" lettering of the American versions?
I would advise you NOT to waste your money. Its only 116 SMALL pages with LARGE print.
I would recommend The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter instead. That is full of interesting ideas and its well worth the price.
3 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
interesting, but no actual conclusion
7. September 2005
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
i've read this book twice, and, while much of the social and cultural facts, discussions and conclusions are interesting--even fascinating--i cannot say that the author has determined why harry potter has become so internationally popular, and so popular across social levels.
nevertheless, i did find it worth reading twice. on the other hand, i think it also proves that it is not possible to analyze the reasons for a cultural phenomenon.
nevertheless, i did find it worth reading twice. on the other hand, i think it also proves that it is not possible to analyze the reasons for a cultural phenomenon.
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Small bit of initial misinformation
5. August 2009
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I have just begun this book, and my rating is preliminary based on what I've seen so far. Although I look forward to reading it, on the very first page is a bit of misinformation. Blake states that "the books . . . have been translated into forty-seven languages; only the Bible has been translated into more." Actually, the second most translated book--in English, at any rate, and probably in any other language--is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Isabel Hofmeyr (The Portable Bunyan) reports 80 translations into African languages alone. It has been translated into all the European languages, so that there is there is a translation not only in Dutch but also in Flemish, not only in Russian but also in Lithuanian, Estonian, Serbian, Czech, and Bulgarian. There's just been a new Bulgarian translation, in fact. The Harry Potter books are being translated into key languages, but there is a translation of Pilgrim's Progress in both Armeno-Turkish and Greco-Turkish, as well Armenian and Syriac. Pilgrim's Progress would appear to have been translated into all the major 14 languages of India as well, and so forth. It is also the second most published book after the Bible. Ac cording to bibliographer F.M. Harrison, it had gone into 1,300 editions and reprints, not counting pirated editions, abridgements, abbreviations, adaptations, dramatizations, imitations of or selections from the text, and Harrison was reporting in 1941. Even now, there are as many hits for the full text of Pilgrim's Progress for sale on Amazon as there are for, say, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The eleven first editions of Pilgrim's Progress--those published during Bunyan's lifetime--are unspeakably valuable. Lucy Maude Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, even wrote a book featuring the value of an early edition of Pilgrim's Progress.
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