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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"J.K. Rowling"”.
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Virtue at Hogwarts: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Through The Lens of J.K. Rowling's Sorting System
… 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 …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… texts into conversation, we are able to see how Rowling has embraced and built upon the traditions that Shakespeare helped create through Prospero. Therefore, this thesis will also fill a gap in the scholarship of analysis of magical literature as to this date there have been no sustained …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… Kazuo Ishiguro, George R. R. Martin, J.K. Rowling and Sophocles.
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The peculiarities of the lithuanian rendition of irrealia from “fantastic beasts and where to find them” by j. k. rowling /
… Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) by J.K. Rowling are rendered in the Lithuanian version Fantastiniai gyvūnai ir kur juos rasti (2017) translated by Elžbieta Kmitaitė, in accordance with the translation procedures proposed by Davies (2003). Quantitative and qualitative methods are employed …
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‘Harry Potter and the Transmedia Wizarding World’: Paratexts of the Harry Potter Franchise, 2011-17
… (2011—), a website and e-bookstore owned by J.K. Rowling. The second will discuss the ‘Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ theme parks (2011—), spaces that replicate the Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley film sets. The third will look at the ‘Warner Bros. Studio Tour, London: The Making of Harry Potter’ …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
… earlier writers. Finally, through works by J.K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Ransom Riggs, my fourth chapter shows that in our contemporary moment, when the impulse toward generalizations, soundbites, and monolithic narratives is pervasive, the Holocaust can become not only an event to be …
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Remembering How to Listen: A Theoretical and Pedagogical Approach to Literacy, Adolescence, and Young Adult Literature
… for English/ELA, the works of YAL authors J.K. Rowling and John Green, and the implementation of a first-year composition course (FYC) that features YAL examined through the lens of adolescent identity. The guiding principles behind this project are the consideration of adolescence as a social …
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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
… book, Madeleine 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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Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature
… to them. The works I examine include J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, and David Eddings' Belgariad. Though it is impossible to test the effects of reading such works on …