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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"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 child and the adult in contemporary children's literature : Roald Dahl, Anne Fine, Diana Wynne Jones, J. K. Rowling
… I examine the way in which Dahl, Fine, Jones and Rowling engage with (or react against) these contemporary childhood issues. Chapter one outlines the social context and provides information on the most prominent issues: children's rights; parenting advice and educational issues (both of which …
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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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Life after Harry: creating a reader's advisory model based on the literary archetypes of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
… author, or mood advisory. 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 …
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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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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… Kazuo Ishiguro, George R. R. Martin, J.K. Rowling and Sophocles.
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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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A Multiple Case Exploration Of Designers And Reflection In The Design Space
… to use the many models developed for the field (Rowling, 1992). These efforts, while meant to help the new instructional designer succeed, have often been stifled by the ever-changing landscape of what instructional designers are asked to do in their roles after graduation (Kenny, Zhang, Schwier, …
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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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Facing the Last Enemy: Death, Trauerarbeit, and Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling’s 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 …
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Kids take charge : reflections on an emergent motif in school stories for young adults
… Gordon Korman; la série des Harry Potter de JK Rowling; High School Musical, un film qui est apparu sur les écrans de cinéma et qui a été diffusé sur la chaine Disney ; Harriet’s Daughter de M. NourbeSe Philip; et variations des classiques sur les pensionnats et récits scolaires qui ont voyagé …
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New directions in the rhizome of children's literature and children's culture: a case study in transmedia storytelling
… mutation to the digitized text. Using J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series as a case study, this thesis illuminates the ways Rowling’s texts can be used as a model to follow in the historical rhizome due to her twenty-first century awareness of audience and text.
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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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The Phenomenal <em>Harry Potter</em> Books: A Cultural Study of Corporate Influence on Reading Instruction and Image-Making
… explores possible links between author J. K. 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 …
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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 …