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  Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom

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  Kelly Stringer Independent

  November 15, 2010

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  Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom harry potter fandom death Curator's Note Death is a core theme in the Harry Potter series. From the unseen murders that precede the first book’s opening lines to the many deaths that cl ...
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  Re: Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom

  And then...

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  Christopher Bell University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  Monday, November 15, 2010 — 7:23 pm

  it happened, but that's just it: it happens. And, in turn, we learn how to cope with a different ...
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  CONFRONTING DEATH AND MATURING

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  Todd Waters University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

  Monday, November 15, 2010 — 10:57 pm

  what that loss truly meant to themselves, others, and the world. From when Harry first learned that his ...
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  Re: Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom

  One thing I love about

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  Kelly Stringer Independent

  Monday, November 15, 2010 — 11:45 pm

  the real story: people die, it doesn't always make sense, it hurts, and you have to learn to deal ...
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  Coming of Age with Harry

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  Mary Stuckey Georgia State University

  November 16, 2010

  3 comments

  revolves around watching the characters learn what it means to be adults. With the exception of the ...
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  Waves

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  Wednesday, November 17, 2010 — 3:35 pm

  its incredibly vast public is learning a consistent set of messages from it. Between Tom Morris' ...
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  Harry Potter and the Satanic Specters: The Franchise as Seen Through its Religious Metaliterature

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  November 18, 2010

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  "fan-homiletics." And Luke Bell's explication of what he, as a monk, learned from the series makes innumerable ... learned to attend to fan-art, but we have not yet begun to take seriously the creativity in religious ...
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  The Ordinary Practices of Outlandish Creatures

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  Thursday, November 18, 2010 — 5:57 pm

  running parallel to this one, the value of the licensed remediations emerges from reading practices and ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...
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  Re: Cooperative Farmvill-ing

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 12:25 am

  about the genre Farmville is pioneering. My ultimate hope is that creative game designers will learn ...

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