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Comment on Follow up to Harry Potter and Cultural Property: Goblins as Allegory by Daniel colcord

Daniel colcord — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:54:27 +0000

Gary Pulsinelli’s article is very interesting. In fact, I wrote a paper last year focusing on how the issue of cultural property rights is represented in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and in J.K.Rowling’s Deathly Hallows. I have since altered my argument and have presented a conference paper on the sword of Gryffindor as the Elgin Marbles and argue that the debate between Greece and Great Britain over the Elgin Marbles is mirrored in the dispute over the sword in Rowling’s novel. I enjoyed your post on property rights in Rowling’s novel; I think the issue is quite fascinating.

Comment on Langston Hughes: The Ballad of the Landlord by Lebendra Basumatary

Lebendra Basumatary — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:58:45 +0000

Reading the poem “Ballad of the Landlord”by Robert Frost I feel very sad in mind.Any kind of discriminatio should be removed from the society.We should follow the quotation:”every man are equal before law”

Comment on Narrative Goodness by Ethics, Literature, and (internal) Deliberative Democracy « The Literary Table

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:34:27 +0000

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Comment on The Subtle Irony of Cultural Property in Harry Potter and Cultural Property IN Harry Potter by Aaron Schwabach

Aaron Schwabach — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:36:06 +0000

Brilliant! The idea of owning sentient things is a bit disturbing, the more so given the treatment of house-elves. At least the non-sentient chattels – the Galleons Harry’s parents leave him, for instance – act like chattels in our world. And at times the “will” of the sentient chattels can be over-ridden, as with Draco’s wand. But at times the chattels can play their own game: Hermione and Harry go to great lengths to thwart the efforts of the (stolen) portrait of Phineas Nigellus to find out where it is, because they believe it would report their location to the bad guys. In fact the portrait is working for Severus Snape, and when it finally finds out its location, it reports to him… so that he can deliver another sentient chattel, the sword of Godric Gryffindor (which is in his possession, though he is neither a goblin nor a Gryffindor) to Harry, so that Harry (or, as it turns out, Ron) can use it to destroy yet a third sentient chattel, the locket of Salazar Slytherin, which Voldemort has turned into a horcrux. It would be interesting to see the story from the point of view of the various magic chattels; perhaps they see themselves as the actors in the story and the human and humanoid characters as objects they manipulate to serve their purposes.

Comment on The Subtle Irony of Cultural Property in Harry Potter and Cultural Property IN Harry Potter by Follow up to Harry Potter and Cultural Property: Goblins as Allegory « The Literary Table

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:16:09 +0000

[...] In yesterday’s post, I postulated that Rowling’s treatment of copyright was similar to Goblin’s treatment of their creation. I said: in the latter case of copyright, Rowling seems to take the disposition of the more calculating goblin Griphook, claiming her entitlement to own, and therefore prevent others from claiming an interest in her cultural property. [...]

Comment on The Subtle Irony of Cultural Property in Harry Potter and Cultural Property IN Harry Potter by Marc L. Roark

Marc L. Roark — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:52:28 +0000

Indeed Frank. One might even harken an analogy between the transfer of property in Harry Potter and the concept of the “just price” in medieval law. Thanks for commenting.

Comment on The Subtle Irony of Cultural Property in Harry Potter and Cultural Property IN Harry Potter by Frank Snyder

Frank Snyder — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:47:45 +0000

There’s the issue of sentient chattels that “choose,” but some of this may be explained by the fact that free alienability is not a necessary component of a property scheme. In the middle ages the owner of a great estate often had no power to alienate it; an earl could no more decide who would get the earldom when he died than he could have grown wings. Only the “legitimate” heir was entitled. Such chattels as family jewels and heirlooms could not be alienated (see Trollope’s “The Eustace Diamonds” for a great example) but could only descend to the rightful heir, even if the present “owner” strenuously objected.

I think this idea that property has a “true owner” rather than being freely alienable is one of the really medieval things about the Potter books, in common with its economy (which seems to forbit the lending of money at interest), its military system (in which a single highly skilled warrior beats a horde of peasants every time), and its heavy preference for personal loyalty to family over the needs of the state. Some of the property issues are touched on in the essays by Eric Gouvin and Heidi Mandanis Schooner in the “Harry Potter and the Law” book.

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Langston Hughes: The Ballad of the Landlord « The Literary Table — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:03:04 +0000

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