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Artan, Niklas. "Harry Potter as High Fantasy : The Uses of High Fantasy in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27029.

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The purpose of this essay is to present the reader an analysis of Harry Potter as high fantasy and how Rowling has expanded on high fantasy norms which can be seen as a contributing factor to why the saga became such a global phenomenon.  This essay will show the ways in which Harry Potter elaborates on the high-fantasy norms by analyzing its narrative elements (setting, narrative structure, characters, and language). The first part will be a brief introduction to high-fantasy and its norms while the second part will be an analysis of the novels in terms of these norms.
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Hanna, Olsson. "Harry Potter and the Fat Stereotypes." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79683.

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In the field of research within film studies which consider how aspects such as gender or race affect the portrayal of a character, the aspect of characters' body sizes are not always taken into account. By analysing the fat characters in the popular children's and young adult film series about Harry Potter, I bring attention to the fact that the use of stereotypes is significant in these characterisations, and further contributes to the marginalisation of this particular group of people. I looked specifically at what the characters had in common with each other, and if they adhered to already
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Fenske, Claudia. "Muggles, monsters and magicians a literary analysis of the Harry Potter series." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2006. http://d-nb.info/989196925/04.

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Fenske, Claudia. "Muggles, monsters and magicians : a literary analysis of the Harry Potter series /." Frankfurt, M. ;Berlin ;Bern ;Bruxelles ;New York, NY ;Oxford ;Wien : Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989196925/04.

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Pond, Julia. "Divine destiny or free choice Nietzsche's strong wills in the Harry Potter series /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03312008-142833/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Pearl McHaney, committee chair; Stephen Dobranski, Nancy Chase, committee members. Electronic text (71 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 2, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-71).
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Pond, Julia Rose. "Divine Destiny or Free Choice: Nietzsche's Strong Wills in the Harry Potter Series." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/35.

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This paper considers the influences of fate and free will in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Current scholarship on the topic generally agrees that Rowling champions free will by allowing her characters learning opportunities through their choices. By using Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on fate and free will and by more closely examining the Harry Potter texts, this paper demonstrates fate’s stronger presence in Rowling’s fictional world. Certain strong-willed characters rise above their peers’ fated states by embracing their personal fates and exercising their wills to create themselve
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Clark, Leisa Anne. "Butterbeer, Cauldron Cakes, and Fizzing Whizzbees: Food in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4012.

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ABSTRACTThis thesis situates the Harry Potter books into the greater body of food studies and into the extant children's literary tradition through an examination of how food can be used to understand cultural identity. Food is a biological need, but because we have created social rules and rituals around food consumption and sharing, there is more to eating than simple nutritional value. The Harry Potter series is as much about overcoming childhood adversity, and good versus evil, as it is about magic, and food in the Harry Potter series is both abundant and relevant to the narrative, context
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Auz, Jessica. "Man vs beast the human-animal boundary in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/6.

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In her series of seven novels, Rowling constructs a society and a framework of characterization that allows her to explore the human-animal boundary in a variety of ways. She connects her novels to the ideology of the classical and medieval periods while still acknowledging the ways that the relationship between humans and animals has changed over the years by showcasing the influence of modern popular culture on her characterization of the human-animal boundary. Through her descriptions of werewolves, Patronuses, Animagi, and Harry Potter's and Lord Voldemort's abilities to speak Parseltongue
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Ahmed, Kamal. "In Pursuit of the Hero : Mythological Heroic Structures in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter Series." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-87566.

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Criticism of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has maintained that its popularity stems from a well-marketed, repetitive and simple structure. However, this essay considers that this success derives from recognizable mythological heroic structures. The essay traces the protagonist’s development from the perspective of two different theories that contrast and complement each other in various ways, Otto Rank’s theory of the myth of the birth of the hero and Joseph Campbell’s theory of the monomyth. Campbell and Rank both hypothesize that hero myths are repetitive because they emerge from the su
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Roostaee, Zahra. "An intercultural study the reception of J.K. Rowling's the Harry Potter book series in Iran." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2010. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2660.

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This study travels into the magical world of Harry Potter as both story and book series to explore its reception in Iran. The purpose of this study is to discover how the magical world of Harry Potter has broken down cultural boundaries and reinforced others, and has attracted many children and adults as readers in Iran, where it is read mostly through translated versions and where certain aspects of the story are censored or adapted for an Iranian audience. I will discuss how the Harry Potter series is read and received differently in Iran and North America by comparing critical responses, fo
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Öhrn, Petra. "Exclusive Magic : A Postmodern Analysis of Inclusion/Exclusion of the Other in the Harry Potter-series." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-29829.

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Faria, Paula Soares. "The journey of the villain in the Harry Potter series :: an archetypal study of fantasy villains." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-7LQEGY.

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Fantasy has featured in our culture since the beginning of times. From ancient mythology to futuristic Sci-Fi, stories have been filled with fantastic characters and settings. Disguised under the cover of the fantastic there is a heavy load of symbolism being conveyed through structures called archetypes. The idea of archetype as a symbolic structure which is repeated countlessly over time and space was identified and studied by the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung and these archetypes can be recognized in many forms of art or even in dreams. Fantasy usually has archetypes as its basic structure
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Milner, Emily J. "When in Doubt: An Exploration of the Role of the Oracle in the Harry Potter Series." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/344.

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The popular Harry Potter series serves as the basis for my study of the oracles that appear throughout the series. By focusing specifically on Professor Sybill Trelawney, Ron Weasley, and the Sorting Hat, I show the relationships between Harry Potter and the Oracles. I also focus on a few of Trelawney's various methods of Divination and her prophecies.
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Savoldi, Adrienne Louise. "THE MAGIC OF A MOTHER'S LOVE: MATERNAL ATTACHMENT IN J.K. ROWLING'SHARRY POTTER SERIES." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386430114.

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Carmichael, V. A. "The Dissemination of Ideologies: Tom Brown’s School Days and the Harry Potter Series as Moral and Social Pedagogy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40016.

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This thesis compares J. K. Rowling’s contemporary Harry Potter series (1997-2007) with Thomas Hughes’s Victorian school story, Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), in order to identify how Rowling and Hughes use British public school literature as a means for the widespread dissemination of moral pedagogy. Given the disparate time frames and political outlooks, Rowling and Hughes teach dissimilar ideologies in different socio-historical contexts. However, both stories reveal the necessity of the schoolmaster’s teaching methods to form morally responsible school leaders, demonstrate the titular char
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Bullwinkel, Sarah Marie. ""Visibility is a Trap": Analyzing the Levels of the Foucauldian Panoptic Gaze in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1367575512.

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Abou-Gabal, Rukaia. "Using the Harry Potter Series in the Multicultural English Classroom as a Tool to Bring Awareness to Unconscious Biases." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182146.

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The Harry Potter series, although primarily written for young adults has managed to be widely popular amongst readers of different ages. The series has been able to entice both young and adult readers all over the world as it provides readers with ample opportunities for self-recognition and thus even self-reflection. Other than providing readers with opportunities for self-recognition the series also provides multiple examples of different important real-world issues such as mental health, othering, discrimination, and the stereotype threat.           In the Harry Potter series, readers are i
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Dahlén, Nova. "Severus Snape and the Concept of the Outsider : Aspects of Good and Evil in the Harry Potter Series." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4346.

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The concept of outsiders has been argued to be one of the main themes in childhood fairy tales in general and in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels in particular. Severus Snape is one of the most evident outsider characters in the novels, described as an unpleasant, ugly man presented as a double agent with uncertain allegiances. When the truth is revealed, in the very last pages of the series, he is discovered to have been an undercover spy for the good side all along. This essay examines Snape as an outsider, and analyzes his effect on the novel, especially his relation to the three characte
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Östberg, Emma. "The Controversy of Snape : A transactional reader response analysis of Severus Snape and why he divides readers of the Harry Potter book series." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32478.

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How can a character from a children’s book become so divisive that he causes arguments amongst adults? This essay uses transactional reader response theory to explain the reason why the character Severus Snape from the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling is so controversial. Applying notions from reader response theorists such as Rosenblatt and Iser together with earlier research on Snape will show how the reader’s opinion is affected by both the text itself and their own personal experience. A poll was created and posted on Facebook with over a thousand replies. This data is analysed and
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Sczerbinski, Jennifer Lyn. "The Mystery in the Old Schoolhouse: Why Children's Book Series Have Been Wrongly Excluded from the Classroom." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/447.

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Thesis advisor: Susan Michalczyk<br>Children's series books have historically been frowned upon by educators and librarians alike. Due to this, thousands of the books have been disregarded as the equivalent of ‘trashy' literature for children, and have thus been excluded from the classroom. How has this scorn gained credence? Are series legitimate reading material for children? This paper explores the history and the beneficial uses of children's series books in the classroom. Series books aid in the teaching of reading and provide a forum for children to gain literary confidence. They also as
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McDonough, Julie. "Muggles, and quidditch, and squibs, oh my! A study of names and onomastic wordplay in translation, with a focus on the Harry Potter series." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26713.

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The goal of this thesis is to study names in the Harry Potter series and its French and Spanish translations. It therefore opens with an analysis of the names, nicknames, and titles that are found in the English series before elaborating on the characteristics that distinguish names with special significance from those without. The second chapter offers an analysis of the onomastic wordplay that can be found in the five English-language novels. Over the course of the third chapter, the reader will find (a) summaries of several translation theories, with a focus on those that pertain directly t
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Zandberg, Anzette. "Die rol van die vertaler as kulturele bemiddelaar : die Afrikaanse Harry Potter as gevallestudie." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1970.

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Thesis (MPhil (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is the latest popular addition to translated Afrikaans children’s literature. Although these books have a double readership, the Afrikaans translations are primarily aimed at young Afrikaans children who either can’t speak English, or whose English is too poor to understand the original text on their own. Translating for children makes specific demands on the translator. One such demand involves the choices the translator is forced to make during the translation process by taking into
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Nicoletti, Cassandra, and Yasemin Residovska. ""Man lär sig tänka själv och då får man mer fantasi!" Harry Potter-seriens didaktiska möjligheter i F - 3." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35508.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka didaktiska möjligheter Harry Potter-serien av J.K. Rowling kan ha i årskurs F – 3. För att undersöka detta har vi genomfört en kvalitativ samtalsintervju med två elever i årskurs 2 kring deras tankar och erfarenheter av Harry Potter-serien, samt en läsvaneenkät som 62 elever i årskurs 2 deltog i. Utöver dessa datainsamlingar valde vi även att analysera två fan fiction-texter baserade på Harry Potter-serien skrivna av samma elever som vi intervjuade. Den teoretiska grund vi tagit avstamp i är Alkestrands avhandling Magiska möjligheter – Harry Potte
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Völklein, Cornelia. "Magischer Welterfolg in Serie? Ausgewählte Untersuchungen zu literar-historischen Kontexten und erfolgsorientierten Konzepten am Beispiel der Romanserie "Harry Potter" /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675564.

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Komarova, Lindgren Elizaveta. ""Den siste fienden som förintas är döden" : En studie av ondskans gestaltning i fantasylitteratur med särskild inriktning på böcker ur serien Narnia och Harry Potter." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-443540.

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The inquiry of this essay is to examine the expression of evil in fantasy literature with a special focus on J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s stone and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but also C.S. Lewis’ Narnia the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Narnia the Last Battle. The purpose is to illuminate different depictions of evil in the books and reflect what these depictions can tell us about evil in our contemporary context. With this essay I want to show how world views are present in fantasy literature with a special focus on the portrayal of evil and its signifi
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Schön, Jasmine. "Hermione Granger som “den Andra” : En analys av Hermione som mugglarfödd kvinna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76153.

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Hermione Granger is the most prominent female character in the Harry Potter series. She is also the only one in the trio of herself, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley who is muggle-born. She is, therefore, most likely to be discriminated against in two aspects – on the basis of her sex and race. This essay examines Hermione with the help of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Edward W. Said’s Orientalism to show how she is represented and portrayed as “the Other” in these two aspects. In which aspect is she more likely to suffer from discrimination, or is it the combination of the two that is
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Chappell, Shelley Bess. "Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/226.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.<br>Bibliography: p. 239-289.<br>Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions.<br>My central thesis
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Dai, Chia-hui, and 戴嘉慧. "Tha Father Images in Harry Potter Series." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52527215344825602100.

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碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>英語學系<br>100<br>Abstract The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the father images in Harry Potter series. Several characters in the series possess fathering features for the main character, Harry. This thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One is an introduction to Harry Potter series and the relation between literature and humanity. Some conservative people are against these books because the theme of the story is about witchcraft. However, these books are not as evil as those opposites think, but valuable instead. Chapter Two is devoted to discussing the
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Jheng, Ru-Han, and 鄭如涵. "Research of imagination elements in the Harry Potter Series." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30956127760652416330.

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碩士<br>國立臺中教育大學<br>語文教育學系碩博士班<br>96<br>The purpose of this study is to analyze the imagination elements in Harry Potter I – VII. For this purpose, context analysis is adopted as the method of this research. By studying the text discourses, the imagination elements are analyzed according to their origin and meaning to obtain the significance of the context and reality. The findings of this study in Harry Potter I – VII are concluded as followings: First, among the imagination of characters, those with greater effects upon the story are classified into four categories: the opposite between jus
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Lin, Hui-Chen, and 林慧貞. "Death and Afterlife in the Harry Potter Series of J.K.Rowling." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34690981480340121782.

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碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>英國語文學系研究所<br>92<br>There has been a change in the attitude towards death in the past half century. People are more willing to face it, and adults try to teach children how to face death through education. Adults can discuss the pain of the loss of a parent with children so as to teach them how to face death. It is an effective way for adults to discuss death with children through a children’s book where death is not so threatening to children as it is in real life. Therefore, to choose an appropriate children’s book is important. The thesis will compare how the Grimm’s tales and
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Florianová, Petra. "Differences and Similarieties in the Oz and Harry Potter Series." Master's thesis, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-270053.

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V této práci jsem se pokusila z několika aspektů srovnat dvě série knih pro děti. Těmito aspekty jsou motivace autorů napsání mnohodílných sérií, postavy, časoprostor, možné problematické oblasti při hodnocení knih a nakonec možné důvody, proč byly obě série tolik úspěšné. Motivace obou autorů, která je vedla napsání dalších pokračování první velmi úspěšné knihy, byla velice odlišná. Zatímco Baum měl v plánu napsat pouze jednu knihu o Zemi Oz, J. K. Rowling měla již od prvního okamžiku, kdy si vytvořila postavu Harry Pottera, v mysli několik dalších pokračování jeho příběhu. Rozhodnutí napsat
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Hui, ping Huang, and 黃慧萍. "The prediction for the world in the series of Harry Potter." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vnd6yd.

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碩士<br>國立臺東大學<br>兒童文學研究所<br>97<br>From the west of the Delphi Oracle in the age of Greece to the east of asking gods for the prophecy and prediction, humans with the basic instinct of orienting toward the auspicious and escaping the calamitous as well as the desire for the unknown future never stop trying to predict the future and to understand the future. Various kinds of divination methods are seen and flooded everywhere in our modern life, wherein the predictive destined phenomenon is also seen in the fantasy novel. This research is to probe into the effect of the prophetic elements and the
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Chiang, Chih-Ling, and 江芷羚. "Pragmatic-based discourse analysis of Harry Potter movie series and subtitle translation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64073477639403535832.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>應用外語系<br>101<br>The boosting growth of foreign films nowadays leads to the importance of subtitling. A film is constructed with dialogues produced by characters with different personalities, personal relationships, social statuses, and gained knowledge. Based on analyzing the language use in discourses, characters’ traits and identities can be clearly reflected. However, no related study has been reported using discourse analysis to investigate language use in both source text and target text. The aim of this research is to explore how discourses represent the language use of
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Chou, Ming-Hong, and 周明宏. "A Postmodern Discourse: Pastiche and Subversion in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75zdsb.

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碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>英國語文學系研究所<br>94<br>The rapid global success of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is a unique phenomenon that has been widely discussed from cultural perspectives. Fewer discussions treat the literary perspectives. The thesis aims at defining the position of the series in literature and analyzing the literary perspectives of Rowling’s works. The thesis proves how the Harry Potter series is postmodern by showing how Rowling combines materials in the series; it is mainly the postmodern creative combination of elements that accounts for the popularity. The thesis, thus, traces the c
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Gani, Safiyyah. "The fortifying and destructive power of love in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5304.

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The aim of this study is to explore the importance of love in its various manifestations in the lives of the Harry Potter characters and its power to consequently influence the paths that they eventually choose to walk. Love is investigated as the reason behind the choice between good and evil as well as paradoxically both a fortifying as well as a destructive force. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the importance that love plays in the healthy or dysfunctional development of the characters. Numerous philosophies and theories that span two different eras will form the theoretical fra
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CHANG, WAN-CHIUNG, and 張婉瓊. "A Corpus-Based Study of Harry Potter Book Series as EFL Learning Materials." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23782800070500567088.

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碩士<br>南臺科技大學<br>應用英語系<br>105<br>In modern times, language learning is an everlastingly hot issue for people around the world. For EFL learners, extensive reading can be a good way to enhance their English proficiency. With an interest in the adaptation of world popular novel series Harry Potter as an extensive reading materials for senior high students in Taiwan, this study is aimed to investigate: (1) the word frequency list; (2) the words needed to reach adequate comprehension; (3) the lexical coverage of the reading materials by BNC/COCA word lists and CEEC English reference word list; (4)
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Chang, Jiang-Ning, and 張江寧. "The Historical Development of Latin and the Spells in the Harry Potter Series." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/942ss4.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>歐洲文化與觀光研究所<br>105<br>As an ancient language, Latin did not lay low. It is nearly omnipresent in all sorts of media: TV shows, music, and fictional writings such as the phenomenal Harry Potter Book Series. In our time, the Latin language seems to have become a sort of magical language. It was as if by simply mastering Latin, one could make all their wishes come true. Ever since Latin became the Roman Empire's lingua franca in around 400 B.C.E., Latin met no resistance in its spread across Europe. It held a dominating position through the entire first millennium, and it still h
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DerekMurphy and 德瑞克墨菲. "Mythical Influences on Formative Christian Literature And their Inclusion in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32526430076503927951.

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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>外國語文學系碩博士班<br>98<br>Despite the rampant popularity of J.K. Rowling’s fantasy novel series, Harry Potter is viewed by some Christian churches as an evil influence on children – popularizing witchcraft and magic; practices banned upon pain of death in The Bible. However within the Harry Potter story are symbols, images and themes that reflect a Christian influence. The biographical details of Jesus Christ and Harry Potter are also surprisingly similar. These observations compel us to ask whether there is a relationship between the two stories and to search for the historical root
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Kinder, Elizabeth Lorna. "Harry Potter and the specular selves: the life and after-life of the image." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312051.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This thesis examines the “specular selves” of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter sequence. The specular self is a term I employ to describe a form of the double that is, thanks to the magical technology of the sequence, able to exist independently of the original subject in visual or specular form. Throughout this thesis, I demonstrate that this form of the visual not only saturates each novel but is, in fact, central to the overall sequence. In investigating Rowling’s diverse depictions of the specular I employ an ekphrastic analysis that reveals si
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Lin, Cindy Pei-jung, and 林佩蓉. "Varying Strategies Used in the Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Translations of the Harry Potter Series Novels." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96160861248441689795.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>翻譯研究所<br>92<br>This study observes the varying strategies used in the Taiwan and Mainland Chinese translations of the first four books of the Harry Potter series. The strategies are discussed drawing upon relevant aspects of translation theory to provide a reference for future translation of literary works. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction of the Harry Potter series novels and a summary of stories in the first four books, as well as publication information regarding English and Chinese editions (including mainland and Taiwan) of the series. Chapter 2 reviews the theoreti
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Apostolides, Anastasia. "Kids seeking alternative identity and spirituality through the lived theology glimpsed in the Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44336.

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The Harry Potter series has been part of many kids’ socio-cultural context since 1997, and is a phenomenon that has had a huge impact on them (many of whom are now adults). It is argued that some kids’ identities and spiritualties may have been directly shaped, and may continue to be directly shaped, by the alternative sacred story presented by Rowling. As this has the Christ discourse woven into its narrative, there are kids who are using the Gospel values on a daily basis, whether they are aware of it or not. Rowling’s fantasy asks readers to question the impact that the dominant dis
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Fitz, Victoria. "Life after Harry." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E480-1.

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Tsao, Chung-ho, and 曹中和. "Searching a Hero in the World of Fantasy: A Study of the Major Characters in the Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07885969336375706347.

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碩士<br>南華大學<br>文學研究所<br>91<br>This is esplains why and how the Harry Potter series are so popular today. In the first chapter, I introduce my critical approaches to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Summarize the memoir of the author and discuss the author’s purpose, techniques, and limitations in these fantastic stories. In the second chapter, I summarize the stories in Rowling’s Harry Potter, analyze the plots and frameworks of the series, and define them as a kind of juvenile literature subject to supervision from parents. 　 　　In the third chapter, I study the mentality of the major charac
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Rodrigues, Debbie June. "Funny little witches and venerable-looking wizards: a social constructionist study of the portrayal of gender in the Harry Potter series." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4774.

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In this study I apply social constructionism as propounded by Vivian Burr (1998) to show that although J. K. Rowling uses stereotypes in the Harry Potter series as a reflection of how gender is constructed across a wide range of societal institutions in contemporary Britain, she created complex characters who on an individual level subvert social constructs and thereby offers her readers alternatives to culturally defined concepts of gender. I explore the all-pervasive social phenomenon of gender and examine how it is constructed in present-day Britain and reflected in the series (bearing in m
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FRANKOVÁ, Nikola. "Řada nešťastných příhod Lemony Snicketa a Harry Potter Joanne Rowlingové jako příklady současné angloamerické morální fantasy." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-385125.

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The thesis deals with the interpretation of Series of Unfortunate Events written by an American author Lemony Snicket and Joanne K. Rowling´s story about Harry Potter. The analysis is focused on the moral and ethical aspects of individual motifs and symbols, as well as on the importance of human values in the behaviour of main characters. Some of the main protagonist were analysed according to their ability to spread good or evil, and therefore their influence on the young reader. The most important aspect was the good will of characters according to the principles of Lévinas' ethics while the
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