Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published July 22, 2020 · Last modified September 22, 2021
Dr. Beatrice Groves reveals the meaning behind the names of “The Ickabog” and explains how this newest fairy tale connects not only to the “Harry Potter” series and “Casual Vacancy” but also to such diverse artists as Shakespeare, Keats, and Monty Python.
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published May 25, 2020 · Last modified September 22, 2021
In Part 3 of her “solve et coagula” analysis, Dr. Beatrice Groves explains how literary alchemy influences J.K. Rowling’s writing process.
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published May 24, 2020 · Last modified September 22, 2021
Dr. Beatrice Groves looks further into the origins of the phrase “solve et coagula” and the way in which it encapsulates Rowling’s own metaphors for her “process.”
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published May 23, 2020 · Last modified September 22, 2021
Last year, J.K. Rowling got a tattoo of the alchemical Latin phrase “solve et coagula.” Read about how the phrase has an intimate connection with everything she writes.
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published March 22, 2020 · Last modified September 22, 2021
On March 20, 2020, J.K. Rowling changed her Twitter header to an image taken from “The Faerie Queene”, an epic poem containing the phrase “troubled blood,” the title of the forthcoming “Comoran Strike” novel. What relevance, beyond inspiring its title, will “The Faerie Queene” have on “Troubled Blood”?
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published October 5, 2019 · Last modified September 22, 2021
To mark the 50th anniversary of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, Dr. Beatrice Groves is exploring links between “Potter” and “Python”. In this second article in a two-part series, she writes about how “Potter” echoes “Holy Grail”.
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published October 4, 2019 · Last modified September 22, 2021
To mark the 50th anniversary of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, Dr. Beatrice Groves is exploring links between “Potter” and “Python”. In this first article in a two-part series, she writes about how “Potter” echoes “Life of Brian”.
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published March 20, 2019 · Last modified September 22, 2021
Dr. Beatrice Groves dissects the moral challenge of the goblin perspective on the ownership of Gryffindor’s sword, which is strongly linked to our popular understanding of Marxism.
Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler
by MuggleNet · Published March 19, 2019 · Last modified September 22, 2021
With the opening of an exhibition, “Jews, Money, Myth”, at the Jewish Museum London, Dr. Beatrice Groves ponders whether the depiction of goblins in “Harry Potter” is anti-Semitic.
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