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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Harry Potter"”.
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‘Harry Potter and the Transmedia Wizarding World’: Paratexts of the Harry Potter Franchise, 2011-17
This doctoral thesis examines five Harry Potter paratexts created between 2011-17 and seeks to understand their impact upon the franchise’s trajectory following the end of the Potter books (in 2007) and films (in 2011). As a piece of long-form analysis, the research represents a significant …
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Obliviate: Harry Potter e as memórias perdidas
… (Facom/UFBA). O trabalho, intitulado OBLIVIATE – Harry Potter e as Memórias Perdidas, foi um produto cultural construído junto à escola de dança Studio A no período de janeiro a novembro de 2016, trazendo a magia da saga Harry Potter para os palcos através da dança, teatro e artes visuais em um …
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Critical literacy in a global context: Reading Harry Potter
… across the globe eagerly await and read each new Harry Potter fictional novel. As a series, the novels can be assumed to participate influentially in the production of adolescent literacies and subjectivities. Situated in politically conservative times, however, the texts may support readings in …
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Facing the Last Enemy: Death, Trauerarbeit, and Harry Potter
… critically acclaimed and wildly successful Harry Potter series details an orphan hero’s quest to reclaim a lost family, and, yet, very little of the previous scholarship has explored the perennial, overarching grief that spans the length of the series. Death litters the landscape of the …
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Inclusion in fandom : how Harry Potter fans rhetorically create representation.
… of textual poachers, this thesis looks at how Harry Potter fans rhetorically invent representation by drawing on aspects of the original story and reinterpreting them in more inclusive ways. I examine how fans use fanfiction to depict and normalize LGBTQ+ representation, how the Tumblr platform …
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Not So Magical: Issues with Racism, Classism, and Ideology in Harry Potter
… primarily a young adult fantasy series, the <em>Harry Potter </em>books are also focused on the battle against racial purification and the threat of a strictly homogeneous magical society. This thesis examines the intricacies and depth of the racial ideologies presented in the books, as well as …
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Relíquias de Potterheads: Uma Arqueologia das Práticas dos Fãs de Harry Potter
… de textos culturais. Nesse cenário nasceu os potterheads, cujo trabalho tornou a saga Harry Potter um potente texto cultural. Potterheads se entendem parceiros da indústria, produzem a partir de seus textos e geram lucros para si e para ela. Na era de Convergência Midiática uma economia …
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Galdrarnir afhjúpaðir: Greining á Hogwarts Legacy sem aðlögun Harry Potter bókanna til tölvuleiks
Í þessari ritgerð verður fjallað um aðlögun á Harry Potter bókunum og Galdraheiminum almennt í tölvuleiknum Hogwarts Legacy sem var gefinn út örla árs 2023. Fyrst verður Galdraheimur Harry Potter bókanna kannaður til hlítar þar með talið stund og staður, galdrakerfi, landafræði og sögulegt samhengi …
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Pity Those Who Live Without Love: The Function of Love in Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels are extraordinarily popular; readers zealously respond to these texts with unprecedented adoration and dedication. Generally, critics attempt to explicate the popularity of Harry Potter in one of two ways: through an examination of either Rowling’s literary …
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THE MAGIC OF SIGHT: EYES, GLASSES, AND BLINDNESS IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES
<p>The magical world of Harry Potter emphasizes the link between sight, knowledge, and power. With this connection, it raises the question of ethics within the wizarding world. Because of the different capabilities of sight, such as becoming invisible, the ethics are pushed into a gray area. Since …
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Les deux derniers films 'Harry Potter' : marqueurs sonores et thèmes narratifs
… histoire pour enfants et adolescents, la saga Harry Potter, tout comme la saga Star Wars dans les années 1980, est devenue un véritable phénomène culturel et intergénérationnel. L'impact de ces livres d'abord, puis des films ensuite, se ressent toujours et ce, malgré leur conclusion en 2011. …
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Politics of popular creativity and popular knowledge: on the case of adbusters and Harry Potter fans
… Brechtian Verfremdung. My second case involves Harry Potter fans and fan fiction writing. Specifically, I investigate the politics of closure or stereotyping involved in a copyright dispute over the publication of the so-called Harry Potter Lexicon. </p> <p>Methodologically speaking, I am `on …
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Accepting the Unacceptable: Textual Accessibility in Baum's Oz Books, L'Engle's Time Quartet, and Rowling's Harry Potter Series
… L’Engle’s Time quartet, and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series are accessible to the reader because the protagonists begin their journeys in the reader’s familiar reality. Dorothy Gale, the Murry children and Harry Potter all live in the real world before their adventures begin. …
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Tensions between didacticism, entertainment and translatorial practices: deletion and omission in the Arabic translations of Harry Potter
… investigates the translation of the well-known Harry Potter fantasy series in the context of translation of children’s literature from English into Arabic; from 2002 this series was translated into Arabic by an Egyptian publishing company specialising in children’s literature. This area is still …
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Life after Harry: creating a reader's advisory model based on the literary archetypes of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
… The study used J. K. Rowling's popular <em>Harry Potter</em> fiction series as a base for developing this strategy. After identifying four character archetypes in the <em>Harry Potter</em> series, the researcher consulted Bowker's <em>Fiction Connection</em> database to find other award …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… point statues in the Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter series: The Fountain of Magical Brethren and the Magic is Might statue. This analysis prompts the questions that this thesis will answer: how does magic create might if it is contingent on never completing the acts that represent that …
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The Phenomenal <em>Harry Potter</em> Books: A Cultural Study of Corporate Influence on Reading Instruction and Image-Making
… Rowling's content messages in the highly popular Harry Potter series and the identity formation of the child reader regarding issues of gender, race, and class. It also interrogates the role of the corporate publisher and the possible influence that the publisher has on both the book's content and …
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Riding a broomstick out of Plato’s cave: Elements of Plato found in J.K. Rowling’s <i>Harry Potter</i> series
<p>J.K. Rowling’s <em>Harry Potter</em> series has become a cultural phenomenon. An analysis of the <em>Harry Potter</em> series reveals that underneath the phenomenon status there is great depth. This paper looks at aspects of the novels that mirror elements found in Plato’s <em>The Republic</em>, …
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Liminoidity in modern media tourism experiences: Understanding the uses and gratifications of fans visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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The real-world implications of an imaginary world: A netnography of a Harry Potter based virtual community (Hogwarts Running Club)
… and activities that focused around the Harry Potter book series and running (HRC, 2018a). The posts within the virtual community Great Hall (named for a location that is significant in the Harry Potter book series) served as the source of study data. As the researcher was a member of the …
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