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Why is it so hard to wait for the next season of a TV show, though the timespan is short, while we all know we can wait for the next novel, even when we don’t like that at all? This paper will suggest answers to this question, based on the comparison of the series A song of Ice and Fire by George Martin and Game of Thrones by Weiss et Benioff (HBO). It should allow to spot differences between serialized receptions of TV shows and novels, that are similar in many ways. In our time of transmedia storytelling and even as Martin’s career places him at the heart of convergence culture, his literary work illustrates nevertheless something still specific to books, the author persona and its « intermittencies ».
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Virtue at Hogwarts: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Through The Lens of J.K. Rowling's Sorting System
More informationExploring how Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is reflected and developed through the Sorting System of J.K. Rowling’s magical school of Hogwarts in her Harry Potter series, this paper considers each house and its characteristic virtues individually. Alongside a comparison of a particular virtue as presented in Rowling’s work to Aristotle’s account, each chapter includes a dissection of the students who represent and problematize these accounts. This format allows an exploration of how the literary text converses with an ancient account of moral virtue. The first chapter considers Gryffindor House and its virtue of courage, the first virtue that Aristotle himself considers in the Nicomachean Ethics. The willingness of Gryffindor students to fight and die is placed alongside Peter Pettigrew’s apparent cowardliness in order to consider Aristotle’s …