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Coitit-Godfrey, Michelle-Janie. "Le Monde de Beatrix Potter." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37613963p.
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Coitit-Godfrey, Michelle-Janie. "Le monde de Beatrix Potter." Bordeaux 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988BOR30027.
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Les contes de beatrix potter, ecrits et illustres par l'auteur, sont tres celebres en angleterre et connus dans le monde entier. Cependant, la recherche en litterature d'enfance et de jeunesse est recente et peu d'etudes appronfondies ont ete faites sur cette oeuvre. Au carrefour de plusieurs disciplines : litterature, sciences de la communication, arts plastiques, cette these propose d'explorer l'imaginaire de beatrix potter dans l'optique d'une poetique de l'acte de creation et d'une poetique de l'acte de lecture. L'interrelation des contes, l'importance de la communication heros-lecteur, l'individu a la conquete de lui-meme, la theatralite, l'oralite emergent de la premiere partie centree sur une etude du texte. La narrativite, la representation naturaliste, une expressivite aux frontieres de l'impressionisme emergent de la deuxieme partie centree sur une etude de l'image. La troisieme partie met en lumiere l'originalite d'un imaginaire dont le principal element est l'anthropomorphisme et qui oscille constamment entre l'instinctif et le civilise, le reve et la realite, la comedie et la tragedie, le naturalisme et la poesie, le documentaire et le symbolique. Cette originalite se retrouve dans la dynamique de l'ecriture de beatrix potter; en effet, au carrefour de l'ecrit, de l'image et de l'oralite, la particularite de son style est d'etre polymorpheAlthough the tales of beatrix potter, written and illustrated by the author, are famous in england and well-known throughout the world, research in chidren's literature is still in its early stages, and few in-depth studies of her work have been undertaken. At the crossroads of several disciplines - literature, communication sciences and plastic arts - the present doctoral dissertation examines the nature of her creative process and explores the reading act involved. Part one, focussed on the text, underlines the inter-relationship of the 23 tales, the importance of the hero-reader dialogue for the individual's self-conquest, and explores the story-telling and role-playing dimensions of beatrix potter's narrative craft. Part two analyses how story-telling prevails, too, in her pictures, rich in naturalistic details, their expressiveness akin to that of impressionism. Part three synthesizes the originality of the imaginary world thus created by beatrix potter. Her anthropomorphism, the over-riding element, reflects an on-going inter-play between instinct and civilised behaviour, dream and reality, comedy and tragedy, naturalism and poetry, documentary and symbolism. The way beatrix potter created her work, weaving together the written word with the spoken word and the picture, shapes the originality of her style, prefigures its polymorphic nature
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Jehpsson, Madeleine. "Beatrix Potters kaniner : verklighet och fantasi." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-7897.
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This master thesis deals with questions concerning facts and fiction in the world of Beatrix Potter's rabbits. The purpose is first and foremost to find the connections between the pet rabbits, that she used as art models, and the rabbits that came to life through her "tales". The method has been to gather facts through biographic reading, and to analyse Beatrix Potter's rabbit tales, using tools developed by Swedish picture book experts. The rabbit characters are thoroughly examined and so are the settings where the tales take place. Matters concerning Beatrix Potter's painting technique and illustration style as well as her literary and pictorial inspirations are dealt with. Conclusions are, that the fictive rabbit characters have indeed a lot to do with the fact that Beatrix Potter was interested in natural history and studied animal behaviour and anatomy in detail. For a long time rabbits, both wild and domesticated, were her favourite study objects which provided conditions for her rabbit fantasies. Sprung from her first infant picture book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, there are many "side shows" associated with her name. Peter Rabbit is now immortal but in the hands of others than his creator.
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Leatherland, Douglas Peter. "Deconstructing anthropomorphism : the 'humanimal' narratives of Kenneth Grahame, Beatrix Potter, and Richard Adams." Thesis, Durham University, 2019. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12978/.
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This thesis proposes that popular narratives categorized as children's animal stories - Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' (1908), Beatrix Potter's tales (1902-30), and Richard Adams' 'Watership Down' (1972) - feature characters which are rendered anthropomorphic in a diversity of overlapping and contradictory ways. Each of these narratives draws on a complex and varied tradition of anthropomorphic animals in literature. Due to their popularity, they have received various critical responses which pose different meanings implied by the author's use of anthropomorphic tropes. My study aims to amalgamate these readings into a meta-critical analysis of the anthropomorphisms in the work of the three authors. Beginning with a historical overview of anthropomorphism across the disciplines and the key debates surrounding this supposedly fixed concept, this study questions the implications made about the human condition which are inherent in assumptions that a text is representing a character in an anthropomorphic way. To be anthropomorphic, such modes of representation must necessarily attribute features which are exclusively human, but even when we deconstruct previously held assumptions of anthropomorphism in the work of popular writers of animal stories, we find that what does or does not constitute anthropomorphism is a multifarious and complex issue. While at times the anthropomorphisms in these narratives are explicit and draw on popular elements of fable and fantasy, at other times they merge with more naturalistic representations. The figure of the "humanimal", which constitutes a neither/both structure of relation between the human and the animal, emerges as the most relevant figure as we follow the trajectories of anthropomorphic tropes in the narratives of Grahame, Potter and Adams. While the humanimal figure is often identified in the animal narratives of authors such as Franz Kafka, I propose that by deconstructing anthropomorphic tropes, popular "children's" animal stories may also be considered humanimal narratives.
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Jeikner, Alexander. "Reading the language of attire : clothing and identity in Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edith Nesbit and Beatrix Potter." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2762.
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This thesis explores how a selection of British children‟s stories written by three female authors between 1880 and 1915 reflected and contributed through verbal and pictorial sartorial images to the construction of a new version of identity: one that is not determined by birth and thus cannot be contained by established mechanisms of control. Scholarship in queer theory has already drawn attention to how dress is employed in literature and popular culture to construct identity, but this thesis draws attention to the centrality of dress images in the gradual construction of more liberated versions of not only gender, but also national and class identity. By providing three substantial case studies involving rigorous close reading of the language of dress, this study also lays the foundations for future research. This thesis consists of an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. Using Beatrix Potter‟s The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907), the Introduction argues that reading the language of attire permits a more nuanced understanding of how a story participates in the discursive construction of identities through a discussion of images of dress, undress and cross-dressing. Chapter Two examines images of dress in the popular press, to illustrate how clothing was closely involved in socio-political discourses and how it both expressed and influenced contemporary (often contesting) constructions of identity. Chapter Three explores how in some nineteenth-century children‟s texts the bodies of animals were implicated in socio-political discourses. Close reading reveals a shift over the course of the century, from clothed animals largely being used to confirm existing social structures to their use to challenge and even transgress existing social boundaries. The chapter explores the implications of this change on constructions of identity that emerge as more negotiable. The next three chapters are based on reading the language of clothing in selected stories by, respectively, Burnett, Nesbit and Potter, focusing on the relationship between clothing and identity. Finally, the Conclusion offers a sartorial reading of a select list of texts belonging to other genres, written in other countries and at other times, to suggest the possibilities of future research in this area. Key texts discussed are Burnett‟s A Little Princess, Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) and The 3 Secret Garden (1911) as well as the lesser-known The Lost Prince (1915). My discussion of Nesbit involves the three stories about the Bastable children in The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899), The Wouldbegoods (1901) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904). In Potter‟s case, I examine the well-known Peter Rabbit stories as well as a range of others, such as The Tale of the Two Bad Mice (1904), The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905), The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906), The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908), The Tale of Samuel Whiskers (1908), The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909), The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (1910), The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911), The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1911) and The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913).
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Duttler, Sabine-Michaela. "Die filmische Umsetzung der Harry-Potter-Romane /." Hamburg : Dr Kovač, 2007. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3314-1.htm.
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Muscato, Melinda. "Victorian children's book illustrations." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/898.
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In the nineteenth century, as society in Victorian Britain adjusted to the effects of urbanization and industrialization, social roles began to shift, changes that were reflected in the children’s book illustrations of Randolph Caldecott, Henry J. Ford, and Beatrix Potter. This time period was considered the golden age of children’s book illustrations due to a large boom in both number and quality available. These children’s books illustrators had a lasting impact on culture and aesthetics and reinforced the social constructions of the new urban middle class. Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations of nursery rhymes gave new interpretations to familiar texts, some of which furthered shifts in gender roles for both males and females. Andrew Lang’s fairy tale series, illustrated by H. J. Ford, walked a fine line between high art ideals and consumerism. Ford’s illustrations referenced the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. The fairytale genre has emphasized female roles from its inception, and Lang's and Ford's focus on an essentially English femininity added complexities to messages about the ideal woman. Beatrix Potter’s subversive work can be seen as the culmination of the Victorian period. She satirized the ideal woman at home, illuminating the anxieties and pressures of the domestic sphere and exploring the Victorians' fixation with the etiquettes of social rank. In an attempt to further the scope of traditional art history, this dissertation shows that, even in consumerist-driven visual culture, even in seemingly inconsequential children’s book illustration, we can see the impact of key social changes and values.
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Milani, Paula Renata. "Fanfictions de Harry Potter : adaptações de fãs e sua recepção /." São José do Rio Preto, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/191085.
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Orientador: Alvaro Luiz HattnherBanca: Márcio Roberto do Prado
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Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa será o de analisar fanfictions - em tradução literal "ficção de fã" - da saga Harry Potter em todas as suas especificidades - formato, definições, caraterísticas, postagem e público. Este último, por sua vez, trata-se de um público único e bastante presente em nosso objeto de pesquisa: o fã. Com a evolução tecnológica pelo qual nossa sociedade atual tem passado, novos gêneros literários vão desenvolvendo-se e ganhando cada vez mais espaço na internet. Uma das razões para que isso ocorra é também o aumento significativo da cultura de massa, termo definido por Kellner (2001) e de grandes lançamentos de best sellers que acumulam uma legião de seguidores, como é o caso de Harry Potter, líder das fanfictions acessadas no website fonte desta pesquisa. Dentre as mais de 800 mil fanfictions de Harry Potter as quais tivemos acesso, selecionamos cinco, todas elas pertencentes à classificação específica de universo alternativo, cuja definição é uma releitura e/ou adaptação da obra original para um novo contexto, distanciando-se, assim, do que foi estabelecido no texto original. A questão que move esta pesquisa é: uma vez que o fã da obra original de Harry Potter foi atraído para a série, considerando-se, especialmente, a existência de ferramentas literárias, como modalidade de narrador e verossimilhança, utilizadas para criar uma realidade paralela à nossa realidade e convencer seu leitor a aceitá-la sem questionamentos, o que faz com que ele continue...
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to analyze Harry Potter saga fanfictions in all its specificities ─ format, definitions, characteristics, posting and audience. The latter, in turn, is a unique audience and very present in our research objective: the fan. Considering the technological evolution that our current society has gone through, new literary genres have been developed and gained more space on the internet. One of the reasons for this to occur is also the significant increase of mass culture, a term defined by Kellner (2001), and big best sellers releases that accumulate a legion of followers, such as Harry Potter, leader of the fanfictions accessed on the website used as a source for this research. Among more than 800,000 Harry Potter fanfictions that we had access to, we selected five, all of them belonging to the specific alternative universe classification, whose definition is a rereading and/or adaptation of the original work to a new context, destiny or personality of the characters, thus, distancing itself from what it was established in the original text. The question that moves this research is: since the fan of the original Harry Potter work was attracted to the series, especially considering the existence of literary tools, such as narrator modality and verisimilitude, used to create a reality parallel to our reality and to convince its readers to accept it without question, what keeps readers interested and assiduously following the texts of alternative ...
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Nicolas, Agathe. "La grande saga de l’industrialisation de la fiction : le renouveau créatif de la franchise Harry Potter." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL024.
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Le constat d’une difficulté est à l’origine de cette thèse : est-il encore possible de parler de clôture de la fiction face au fonctionnement contemporain des franchises fondées sur le développement transmédiatique d’univers transfictionnels ? Cette thèse traite des problématiques de création dans le cadre des industries culturelles : quelles sont les influences de l’industrie sur la création d’une fiction ? Quelles sont les influences de la fiction sur les médiations et les représentations de l’industrie ? Quelles sont les conséquences de l’industrialisation sur les circulations de la fiction ? Comment comprendre la permanence d’une figure d’auteur dans un régime de création collective ? L’étude se structure autour de quatre hypothèses principales, correspondant à autant de parties : tout d’abord, il est désormais nécessaire de parler de « fictions industrialisées », dans la mesure où la fiction, ses formes et ses contenus sont façonnés par l’industrie. Réciproquement, on constate l’émergence d’une « industrie narrativisée » : l’industrie participe de la création culturelle mais devient aussi objet culturel marqué par les codes de la fiction. La proposition de la notion de « fiction totale » rend nécessaire de repenser les notions de participation et de convergence qui, paradoxalement, ne sont pas incompatibles avec le concept d’autorité ; ainsi, il semble que l’ouverture de la fiction soit le symptôme d’un verrouillage institutionnel accru. Enfin, cette thèse pose l’hypothèse de l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme d’auctorialité, fondée sur l’assimilation de la figure d’auteur à un triple produitOne main question originated this PhD Thesis : is it still possible to talk about the closure of a fiction when contemporain franchises work on continual developments and expansions ? This document questions the concept of fiction through the notion of cultural industry. How is the creation of fiction influenced by its industrial environment ? What consequences does fiction have on its industrial environment ? What does industrialisation do to the circulation of fiction ? How does evolve the notion of authorship in this collective environment for creation ? Our study is structured around four main hypothesis, which are each studied in a dedicated part of this thesis : firstly, we underline the relevance of the notion of « industrialised fictions » ; indeed, fictional contents and formats’ evolutions are deeply linked to industrial developments. Furthermore, these contents and formats are sometimes shaped accordingly to their potential industrial developments. Reciprocally, we emphasize the notion of « narrated industry » : industry participates in cultural creation and is a cultural creation contaminated by fiction. A new notion is therefore necessary : the « totalizing fiction ». We worked on a renewed approach for the notions of convergence and participatory cultures which are, paradoxically, strongly linked to the concept of authority : the oppenness of fiction would be the symptom of an institutional lockout. Finally, this thesis defines the appareance of a new form of authority, shaped on the assimilation of authorship to a product : the author is produced as a figure, as a comercial and cultural object and as a self-creation
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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.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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Sandell, Li-Sandra. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Grammar : A Study of Opinions on Using Fiction in Grammar Teaching." Thesis, Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-806.
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The aim of this essay is to investigate teachers’, students’ and researchers’ opinions on the idea of using literature to motivate students into learning grammar. How is and how could authentic texts be used in grammar teaching?
My research is based on a questionnaire given to 23 students at an upper secondary school after participating in a lesson constructed to try out the essay thesis. The essay is also based on literature on the subject and three personal interviews.
The students were very positive towards the idea and stated that it would feel more real to be taught grammar from real texts. The teachers did not want to teach grammar sections as before. Instead they choose to use a more individual response strategy which they feel gives better results. The idea of giving individual response as a way of grammar teaching is also advocated in the background. The idea of using real texts instead of a textbook is given both positive and negative credit.
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Olausson, Elin. "Bland puppyshippers och Orange Crushers : en studie av drivkrafterna bakom läsande och skrivande av Harry Potter-fan fiction." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19184.
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The aim of this Master’s Thesis is to study readers and authors of Harry Potter fan fiction, in order to answer the question of why they read and write fan fiction about Harry Potter, and which factors determine what kind of fan fiction stories they read. The empirical material consists of three qualitative interviews with fan fiction readers and authors, and a textual analysis of four internet forums for discussions about Harry Potter and fan fiction. The theoretical background is based on reception theory and reader-response criticism. The results show, that commitment to, and interest in, the source material is an important reason as to why the participants of the study read and write Harry Potter fan fiction. At the same time, most participants also feel frustration and dissatisfaction with the source material. Also, the results show that fan fiction can be a way of practising writing skills. Reading and writing fan fiction also attracts because it is fun, and because it gives an opportunity to explore how other Harry Potter fans have interpreted the source material. There are many factors that determine which stories the participants choose to read. Characters, and how they are paired with each other, play a vital role, as well as genre, rating, plot and the author’s language and writing style. Many participants read popular stories, and have favourite authors. Personal interpretation of the source material is a very important factor, since it will determine what a participant likes and is willing to accept in fan fiction.Uppsatsnivå: D
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Burgain, Marie-France. "Jeux d’écriture(s) et de réécriture(s) du cycle des Harry Potter de J. K. Rowling." Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100132.
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Harry Potter, succès d’édition sans précédent, est une œuvre hybride et intertextuelle, héritière de nombreuses traditions littéraires. A l’influence des genres de l’imaginaire s’ajoute celle du roman scolaire, du récit de mystère ou d’aventures et celle du texte initiatique. De cette intergénéricité naît un univers riche, foisonnant de trouvailles dont l’écrit et ses instruments proposent de multiples exemples. L’auteure met ainsi en place moult jeux d’imitation et de détournement autour de scènes de lecture et d’écriture, reflétant la richesse de ses romans. Elle propose en outre à son lecteur, par une écriture ludique et manipulatrice, de nombreux jeux, sollicitant tantôt son esprit de déduction et sa mémoire, tantôt sa culture littéraire. Elle multiplie en effet les clins d’œil et références à d’autres œuvres dans son texte dont la lecture peut se faire à plusieurs niveaux. Fidèle à la tradition du cycle en littérature, la romancière a prolongé son univers de fiction dans de nouveaux écrits, dans une logique de pratique transfictionnelle. A l’initiative de l’écrivain ou de ses lecteurs qui se sont pris au jeu, le monde de Harry Potter s’est déployé sur d’autres médias, dans une suite de réécritures à ce jour ininterrompue, faisant de ces textes une fiction transmédiatique. Cette thèse s’articule autour des trois grands axes évoqués, à savoir la place et le rôle de l’écrit dans les Harry Potter puis la relation qui se noue entre la romancière et son lecteur grâce à ses jeux d’écriture et ensuite aux très nombreuses réécritures du cycleThe Harry Potter books are the inheritors of several literary traditions. Both intergeneric and intertextual, they do not only belong to the category of non-realistic genres but also to the traditions of school fiction, mystery or adventure novels and initiation stories. This hybridity results in the creation of a very rich universe, teeming with inventions; all sorts of texts and writing tools are representative of this creativity. J. K. Rowling both imitates and distorts her sources, in scenes in which writing and reading play an important part. Besides, thanks to a playful and manipulative style, she invites her readers to play with their sense of deduction and memory and their literary culture. Indeed, she refers to many works of fiction and thus, proposes different ways of reading and understanding her stories. As is the case with most literary cycles, she has expanded on her fictional world in new texts, pieces of what is now called “trans-fictional” writing. J. K. Rowling and her readers also have developed the Harry Potter world, rewritten it and transferred it to new media, turning this literary work into transmedia fiction. This study focuses on the three main points mentioned, that is to say first on the part played by reading and writing in the Harry Potter books, then on the relation between the writer and her readers through her writing and on the many different ways in which the novels have been and still are being rewritten
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Sanseverino, Gabriela Gruszynski. "As representações do jornalismo na ficção de Harry Potter transmídia : a função social e o ethos profissional." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/132161.
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A pesquisa aborda a representação do jornalismo na ficção de Harry Potter transmídia – sua função social e seu ethos profissional. A partir da análise de conteúdo, avaliamos os sete livros, os oito filmes e o site Pottermore que fazem parte da franquia, explorando a capacidade narrativa de cada plataforma. Definimos a série como narrativa transmídia com base em Jenkins (2009a) e, a partir de uma visão geral do enredo de Rowling, acionamos os conceitos de função social e ethos profissional que permeiam o jornalismo para pensar a representação da profissão na franquia. Mapeamos onze funções sociais da profissão no enredo de Rowling – informar; contextualizar, interpretar e explicar a realidade; motivar debate público; vigiar os poderes; orientar sobre como viver no mundo; organizar o tempo do leitor (ouvinte, espectador) na vida cotidiana; formar um presente social de referência; manter a sociedade unida; instruir e educar os leitores (ouvinte, espectador); conferir valor para pessoas, objetos e instituições; proporcionar entretenimento. Observamos também como se constrói o ethos profissional, identificando quatro perfis de jornalistas criados na história de Harry Potter – o inescrupuloso, o idealista, o profissional e o chapa-branca. As funções sociais ocupadas pela profissão variam de acordo com seu contexto na história e o ethos que cada jornalista incorpora determina como elas serão cumpridas e se serão cumpridas. As posições dos veículos e dos jornalistas se alteram com o desenrolar da história, registrando as mudanças sociais e se tornando parte delas.This research addresses the representation of journalism in the transmedia fiction of Harry Potter - its social function and its professional ethos. Using content analysis, we evaluate the seven books, the eight films and the Pottermore site that compose the franchise, exploring the narrative capability of each platform. We define the series as a transmedia narrative as established by Jenkins (2009a) and, from an overview of Rowling's plot, applied the concepts of social function and professional ethos that permeate journalism to reflect about the representation of the profession in the franchise. We mapped eleven social functions of the profession in Rowling's story - report; contextualize, interpret and explain the reality; encourage public debate; watch the other powers; instruct people on how to live in the world; organize the reader's (listener, viewer) time in everyday life; form a social present of reference; keep society together; instruct and educate readers (listeners, spectator); lend credibility and prestige to people, objects and institutions; offer entertainment. We also observed how the professional ethos is built, mapping four journalist profiles created in the Harry Potter story – the unscrupulous, the idealist, the professional and the subdued to the government. The social functions fulfilled by journalism in the story vary according to its context in the narrative and the ethos that each journalist incorporates determines how this functions will be fulfilled and if they will be fulfilled. The positions of the vehicles and journalists change in the course of story, registering the social changes and becoming a part of them.
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Muller, Cathleen. "Harry Potter and the Rescue from Realism: A Novel Defense of Anti-Realism about Fictional Objects." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1330719422.
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Tedeman, Victor. "The Power of the Dark Side : Ondskans porträtterande i populärkultur." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-301082.
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Bezerra, Diego Nunes. "A reprogramação da saga Harry Potter: leitura das enunciações mágicas do herói decadente." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14708.
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The best-seller Harry Potter s series, written by the British author J. K. Rowling, and stared by the character Harry Potter have been studied by the contemporaneous Criticism while the image spectacular society s concepts. Among these concepts there are the saga, and the Greek hero, as structures of the myth, and both are restructured by media mechanism action in favor of the fabled contamination. In this study, the saga occupies the center of a heroic circular action that remodels the hero concept, and also gives us the updated decadent hero while image integrated to the mass society system. In a ludic point of view, the series Harry Potter (seven books) are about sharing the hero s (Harry Potter) qualities in counterpoint to the anti-hero Voldemort, who brings us the construction of the intrigue, the effects of the dual decadent nature game: bad vs. good, once humanized by the marvelous multimidia contemporaneous element. In this way, the marvelous becomes the support roll in the adventures of this hero in the gaps created by him through the remodeling saga. Under the communicative perspective of the fanfiction, the potternian fiction corroborates to the decadent heroic structure, by using a mixture of mass reading, and mass writing into the classic saga, extended to the author-mass, and to the readermass, creating the parenthood of the modern saga. This communicative link of the reprogrammed saga made by way of magic and witchcraft element shave lead up us to the study of this central theme, in three stages: the fiction and fanfiction intertextuality in Harry Potter s series; the architext in construction: Harry Potter s series; the fiction in intertextuality: the reading of magic enunciations
Os best-sellers da Série Harry Potter, da autora britânica J. K. Rowling, protagonizados pela personagem Harry Potter, têm sido estudados pela crítica contemporânea sob o suporte de conceitos dados pela sociedade da imagem espetacular. Entre estes conceitos figuram: a saga e o herói grego, como estruturas do mito, ambos em reestruturação pela ação dos dispositivos midiáticos em trabalho de contaminação fabular. Neste estudo, a saga ocupa o centro de um círculo de ações heroicas que, ao mesmo tempo em que modelam o conceito de heroicidade, atualizam o arquétipo do herói decadente enquanto imagem, integrado ao sistema da sociedade de massa. Em operação lúdica, a Série Harry Potter (7 Livros) concentra-se na partilha das qualidades do herói Harry Potter em contraponto com o anti-herói Voldemort, assimilando, na composição da intriga, os efeitos do jogo bem vs. mal em sua natureza dual decadente, uma vez humanizada pelo elemento maravilhoso multimidiático contemporâneo. Para tanto, o maravilhoso passa a ser o coadjuvante das aventuras desse herói, nas fissuras por ele geradas pela via da remodelação da saga. Sob a perspectiva comunicacional da fanfiction, a ficção potterniana corrobora com a estruturação do herói decadente, por meio da mixagem leitura e escrita de massa à saga clássica, extensiva ao autor-massa e leitor-massa, compondo a parentela da saga moderna degenerada. Esse nexo comunicacional da saga reprogramada pela magia e feitiçaria nos propiciou o estudo da temática central em três momentos: A intertextualidade fiction e fanfiction na Série Harry Potter de J. K. Rowling; O arquitexto em construção: a Série Harry Potter; O ficcional na rede intertextual: a leitura das enunciações mágicas
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Reis, Beatriz Costa. "Fanfiction de Harry Potter no Brasil : o desenvolvimento da produção do gênero por autores brasileiros /." São José do Rio Preto, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154713.
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Orientador: Alvaro Luiz HattnherBanca: Aparecido Donizete Rossi
Banca: Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki
Resumo:Com o intuito de descrever e verificar os recursos mais recorrentes utilizados na criação de fanfictions sobre Harry Potter por autores brasileiros, discute-se neste trabalho o movimento de consumidores a uma cultura participativa nas últimas décadas, suas implicações nos debates sobre propriedade intelectual e o impacto da evolução da tecnologia na produção e circulação de produtos midiáticos. O surgimento das fanfictions e os mecanismos existentes na reinterpretação de narrativas originais também são abordados, bem como os números expressivos que representam o sucesso dos livros de J.K. Rowling como fenômeno editorial e como comunidade na internet. Tendo em vista a atividade significativa de fãs brasileiros da série e sua produção de histórias inspiradas em Harry Potter, três fanfictions representativas da produção do fandom no Brasil foram analisadas e constatou-se que os recursos mais frequentes em seu desenvolvimento são: universo alternativo, foco em personagem secundário, o subgênero slash e extensão da linha do tempo, premissa que evidencia predileção de autores e leitores por maior espaço para criação própria
Abstract: In order to describe and verify the most common resources used in the creation of Harry Potter fanfictions in Brazil, this study presents the movement of consumers towards a more participative culture in the last two decades, its implications to debates on intellectual property and the impact of technological evolution on the production and circulation of media content. The work also examines the history of fanfiction and the existent mechanisms of reinterpretation of original narratives, as well as the expressive numbers that represent the success of J.K. Rowling's books both as an editorial phenomenon and fandom on the internet. Given the significant production inspired in the Harry Potter series by Brazilian fans, three representative fanfictions are analyzed, in the light of the specific ways the original is rewritten. Alternative universe, focus on secondary characters, slash and timeline expansion, which were found to be the most recurrent procedures in the rewritings, evince partiality for personal creation on the part of authors and readers
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Glover, Jayne Ashleigh. "The Harry Potter phenomenon literary production, generic traditions, and the question of values." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002243.
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This thesis is a study of the first four books of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. It accounts for the widespread success of the novels by examining their publication and marketing histories, and their literary achievement as narratives including a sophisticated mix of generic traditions. Chapter One looks at the popularity of the novels, comparing their material production and marketing by Rowling’s English language publishers: Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic in the United States of America. The publisher’s influence on the public perception of each book is demonstrated by comparative study of its mode of illustration and layout. Further, the design of the books is linked to their strategic marketing and branding within the literary world. The second chapter considers Rowling’s debt to the school story. It concentrates first on the history of this relatively short-lived genre, briefly discussing its stereotypical features and values. Traditional elements of setting and characterisation are then examined to show how the Harry Potter novels present a value system which, though apparently old-fashioned, still has an ethical standpoint designed to appeal to the modern reader. Chapter Three focuses on the characterisation of Harry as a hero-figure, especially on how the influence of classical and medieval texts infuses Rowling’s portrayal of Harry as a hero in the chivalric mode. The episodes of “quest” and “test” in each book illustrate specifically how he learns the values of selflessness, loyalty, mercy and fairness. Chapter Four surveys the contribution of modern fantasy writing to the series. It shows how Rowling creates a secondary world that allows us to perceive magic as a metaphorical representation of power. This focus on the relationship between magic and power in turn has a bearing on our assessment of the author’s moral stance. The thesis concludes by suggesting that Rowling’s unusual mix of genres is justified by the values they share, and which are inscribed in her work: the generic combination forms a workable, new and exciting mode of writing that helps to account for the phenomenal popularity of the series.
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Ivarsson, Rebecka. "Fantasy Fiction from a Gender Perspective : A Study of Gender Differences in Peter Pan and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-29640.
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Kolenda, Embla. "Bibliska motiv i Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : En intertextuell undersökning." Thesis, Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, Teologiska högskolan Stockholm, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-122.
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Populärkultur uppstår inte i ett vakuum. Det är inte konstigt att västerländsk populärkultur hämtar inspiration från Bibeln och västerländsk kristen kultur. Bokserien om Harry Potter tycks vara ett sådant exempel. Jag är intresserad av det intertextuella mötet mellan Harry Potter-böckerna och Bibeln. Detta är ett relevant ämne att studera inom bibelvetenskapen då intertextualitet är tolkning i flera led och alltså påverkar vår läsning av såväl Bibeln som skönlitteratur. Som Lina Sjöberg visar kan intertextuella studier mellan Bibeln och skönlitteratur vara ett sätt att exegetiskt arbeta med mellanmänskliga aspekter av bibelberättelser som i sin tur plockats upp av skönlitteraturen genom intertextuella referenser.1 Utifrån bibelvetarens uppgift att tolka och förstå Bibelns texter blir intertextuella studier en framkomlig väg bland flera.2Harry Potter är en bästsäljande bokserie skriven av den brittiske författaren J.K. Rowling.3 Bokserien har filmatiserats och även filmerna är mycket populära. Det har skapats en fandom4 kring Harry Potter. Fansen kallas för ”Potterheads”5 och J.K. Rowling har skapat plattformen ”Pottermore” som är en nöjessite, nyhetssite och online-butik för allt Potter-relaterat.6 Det genomslag Harry Potter har gjort gör serien till ett intressant ämne för intertextuella studier. Många älskar bokserien och även de som inte läst böckerna känner ofta till handlingen i viss utsträckning.
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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 Potter, Artemis Fowl och Cirkeln i skolans värdegrundsarbete (2016) och Langers Litterära föreställningsvärldar: litteraturundervisning och litterär förståelse (2017).Frågeställningarna vi utgått från i vår undersökning lyder: Hur ser elevers erfarenheter och tankar kring Harry Potter-serien ut i årskurs F – 3? Hur ser de föreställningsvärldar som eleverna skapar sig kring Harry Potter-serien ut? Vilken didaktisk potential kan Harry Potter-serien och fantasylitteraturen innehålla?Slutsatsen vi kan dra av våra analyser av enkätsvaren, samtalsintervjun och elevernas fanfiction samt genom den teori vi utgått från är att Harry Potter-serien har didaktisk potential i årskurs F – 3. Vårt främsta argument för detta är att det hos eleverna som deltagit i vår undersökning finns ett stort intresse för serien eftersom många sedan tidigare har erfarenhet av den. Att använda elevers erfarenheter som utgångspunkt för lärande är ett fenomen som kallas för erfarenhetspedagogik, vilket blivit ett centralt begrepp för oss i skrivandet av vårt examensarbete eftersom det understryker skönlitterära texters didaktiska potential.Nyckelord: fan fiction, fantasylitteratur, Harry Potter, läsning, erfarenhetspedagogik, undervisning, litteraturdidaktik, F – 3
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Orring, Amanda, Michaela Pechac, and Maja Willeborn. ""You can´t become Harry Potter, but you can be like him." Minor Field Study : A study of how some teachers in Thailand reason about working with the development of an identity through fiction." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Pedagogik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20374.
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BACKGROUND: In the background we describe research on fiction and identity. Wedescribe Thailand’s steering documents as well as Sweden’s steering documents. One section describes the Thai school and changes made in Thai education. The section about Thai identity describes Thai values and Thai culture. We also explain the purpose of reading and how fiction and identity are used in schools.AIM OF THE STUDY: The aim of the study is to reach an understanding of how somepedagogues in Thailand reason about their work with fiction as a tool for the development of an identity, both in the teaching of mother tongue and in the teaching of English.METHOD: We chose to conduct our research with the method of qualitative interviews.This study is based on nine interviews, five interviews with five teachers teaching in Thai and four interviews with four teachers teaching in English as a second language, working in two middle-class high schools in a major city in Thailand.RESULT: By the interviews it is clear that the teacher engage the students in efferent reading, fiction is mostly used to teach the students how to use the language and is often connected to religion and Thai society. The most prominent explanation of identity is cultural identity which is the identity that is dominating in Thai schools. The teachers’ aims are to teach thestudents about good and bad, values and moral and the fiction used in their teaching all represent this.Program: Lärarutbildningen
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Tokdemir, Gokce. "Worlds Subverted: A Generic Analysis Of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Subtle Knife, And Harry Potter And The Philosopher." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609698/index.pdf.
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This dissertation aims to study three very important works in English children&rsquos fiction: C. S. Lewis&rsquo
s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Philip Pullman&rsquo
s The Subtle Knife, the second book of his trilogy His Dark Materials, and J. K. Rowling&rsquo
s Harry Potter and the Philosopher&rsquo
s Stone. The novels will be analyzed in terms of their approaches toward the conventions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance
to this end, the novels are to be evaluated in relation to their concept of chronotope, and the quest of good versus evil. While the secondary world or multiple worlds presented are going to be analyzed in terms of their perception of time and space along with the presentation of the supernatural elements, the characters will be evaluated in terms of the common classification good versus evil. The main argument of this study concentrates on the gradual estrangement from the crystal clear distinctions of the fairy tale genre to a more shadowy, pessimistic, and ambivalent vision of the fantastic in the children&rsquo
s literature.
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Geldenhuys, Vincent. "A signification in stone the lapis as metaphor for visual hybridisation in the Harry Potter films /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132008-191836.
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Lugo, Rodríguez Nohemí. "Diseño de narrativas transmedia para la transalfabetización." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/396131.
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Esta tesis explora el diseño de narrativas transmedia (NT) realizadas por los alumnos para promover la transalfabetización. Este concepto se redefine para una alfabetización escolar que contemple la ecología transmedia y las necesidades formativas para comunicarse y participar en diferentes esferas de la vida pública que tienen los alumnos contemporáneos, permanentemente en conexión. Para comprender la realidad cotidiana de una escuela y en búsqueda de un modelo con posibilidades de transfererencia, se realizó una investigación de campo en un instituto público de educación media en la ciudad de Barcelona. Ahí se realizaron dos experiencias prototipo para descubrir los factores didácticos y socioculturales que promueven u obstaculizan el uso de NT en el aula. Con base en la investigación descriptiva y exploratoria se hace una valoración final y se proporcionan observaciones útiles para promover la transalfabetización y el diseño de narrativas transmedia en un contexto educativo.This thesis explores the process of designing transmedia narratives (TN), when done by students, as a strategy for promoting transliteracy. This thesis redefines the concept “transliteracy”, in such a a way that it promotes a literacy that will involve transmedia ecologies and the formative needs of contemporary students, who are permanently connected, so that they may communicate and participate in different spheres of public life. In order to understand the day-to-day reality of a school, and arrive at a transferable model, a field research was done in a public institution for mid-level education in Barcelona. Two prototype experiences were performed there, with the goal of discovering the factors, be they didactic or sociocultural, that either foster or inhibit the use of TN in the classroom. Based on the descriptive and exploratory research, a final assesment is made, and key observations are put forward. These observations will be useful for aiding the design of transmedia narratives in an educational context, thus promoting transliteracy.
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Toy, J. Caroline. "Wizarding Shrines and Police Box Cathedrals: Re-envisioning Religiosity through Fan and Media Pilgrimages." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587605749537652.
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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.Bibliography: p. 239-289.
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.
My central thesis is that fantastic motifs work on a metaphorical level to encapsulate and express ideologies that have frequently been naturalised as 'truths'. I develop a theory of motif metaphors in order to examine the ideologies generated by the fantastic motif of metamorphosis in a range of contemporary children's and young adult fantasy texts. Although fantastic metamorphosis is an exceptionally prevalent and powerful motif in children's and young adult fantasy literature, symbolising important ideas about change and otherness in relation to childhood, adolescence, and maturation, and conveying important ideologies about the world in which we live, it has been little analysed in children's literature criticism. The detailed analyses of particular metamorphosis motif metaphors in this study expand and refine our academic understanding of the metamorphosis figure and consequently provide insight into the underlying principles and particular forms of a variety of significant ideologies.
By examining several principal metamorphosis motif metaphors I investigate how a number of specific cultural beliefs are constructed and represented in contemporary children's and young adult fantasy literature. I particularly focus upon metamorphosis as a metaphor for childhood otherness; adolescent hybridity and deviant development; maturation as a process of self-change and physical empowerment; racial and ethnic difference and otherness; and desire and jouissance. I apply a range of pertinent cultural theories to explore these motif metaphors fully, drawing on the interpretive frameworks most appropriate to the concepts under consideration. I thus employ general psychoanalytic theories of embodiment, development, language, subjectivity, projection, and abjection; poststructuralist, social constructionist, and sociological theories; and wide-ranging literary theories, philosophical theories, gender and feminist theories, race and ethnicity theories, developmental theories, and theories of fantasy and animality. The use of such theories allows for incisive explorations of the explicit and implicit ideologies metaphorically conveyed by the motif of metamorphosis in different fantasy texts.
In this study, I present a number of specific analyses that enhance our knowledge of the motif of fantastic metamorphosis and of significant cultural ideologies. In doing so, I provide a model for a new and precise approach to the analysis of fantasy literature.
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LIN, SHIH-YING, and 林詩縈. "Harry Potter and Fan Fiction." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r5365g.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
應用英文系
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With the development of technology, it is convenient and easy for people to write a comment or an article on the Internet. Therefore, there are more and more pieces of fan fiction on the Internet; some of them are published and become popular. Fan culture is no longer merely a subculture; it has become mainstream. We cannot overlook this “fan culture.” This thesis aims to use J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series as an example to understand fan fiction and to know how it affects the relationship between readers and authors.
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Taljaard, Susanna Hendrina. "Beatrix Potter se kinderverhale in Afrikaans : 'n funksionele ekwivalering van enkele bron- en doeltaaktekste." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11696.
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Cheng-hsiung, Tsai, and 蔡正雄. "Talking About The Course Of Translating “The UltimatePeter Rabbit：A Visual Guide To The World Of Beatrix Potter“." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55854280396285888399.
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碩士臺東師範學院
兒童文學研究所
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It was just the time for the published centennial of “The Tale Of Peter Rabbit“, the first fairy tale of Beatrix Potter when I was translating “The Ultimate Peter Rabbit : A Visual Guide To The World Of Beatrix Potter”, that is a specialized book of introducing Beatrix Potter, but a brief narration of her growth and exploits, also her 23 fairy tales and the backgrounds of writing them. The thesis talks about the course of translating “The Ultimate Peter Rabbit：A Visual Guide To The World Of Beatrix Potter“, except for the accomplishments of Beatrix Potter herself, and the book’s contents and its centers of emphasis too. The important points of the course mainly focus on two parts, the one is the values of Potter’s works, and the other is the translating problem. The purposes of the former, to be thought with continuing the times, are to analyze the values of Potter’s works, and to add the parts mentioned in the thesis, but didn’t in the book. The latter emphasizes the thinking and the ways of solving them. They both influenced the progress of translating the book at the same time.
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Lin, Tian-Yin, and 林恬音. "A Discussion on the Therapeutic Effect of Picture Books Based on Peter Rabbit Series by Beatrix Potter." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22104NTTU5638001%22.&searchmode=basic.
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碩士國立臺東大學
進修部兒文所碩士班(台北夜間)
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator of children’s books. She wrote Peter Rabbit series from 1902 to 1930. She created many lovable characters, such as Peter Rabbit and his animal friends. Mrs. Potter sent letters with sketches to her young friends to encourage them, and these letters became the basis of her Peter Rabbit series. By writing stories, Mrs. Potter wanted to bring children hopes and joys, and she also tried to comfort the lonely little girl inside her. She wrote and drew what she had closely observed. Children like to read her books. Even adults enjoy reading her stories because of the beautiful pictures in her books and her concise style of writing. The characters, Peter Rabbit and his friends, which were created by Beatrix Potter will be first discussed in this paper. I will discuss how readers can interact with the characters and enter an imaginary world where fantasy and reality are mixed up, and thus find peace in mind by reading Peter Rabbit series. Furthermore, I will discuss how readers can be fascinated by the animal friends and project their hopes and dreams on them to create new stories during the reading process. The text analytic method is adopted. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the thera-peutic effect of Peter Rabbit series. Texts to be analyzed are “Beatrix Potter’s Fairy Tale Collection”, published by CHUNWUNSIAO in 1978, and “Peter Rabbit and His Animal Friends”, published by CHINGLIN in 1997.
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Beazley, Malory. "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism." Thesis, 2014. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978492/1/Beazley_MA_S2014.pdf.
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Henry Jenkins’ definition of fan activism emphasizes the tactics fans use to effect widespread political and social change at a grassroots level. Yet fan activism is also more of a loose or fluid concept that includes active and implicit manifestations of resistance. Surveying two different genres of Harry Potter genderfuck fan fiction - genderswap and transfic - helps illustrate the complex ways in which fans enact their political agency. The work that fans do in online communities, from writing contemporary academic theories into fan fiction to intervening in popular fan tropes that present problematic views of gender, opens up queer pedagogical spaces that extend beyond fandom. The transfic genre (as illustrated by the fic The Relative Truth) reflects a more nuanced and progressive space than the traditional genderswap genre (as illustrated by the fic Being Liquid), functioning for fandom as an internal critique that allows for the proliferation of a full-range of queer and transgender experiences in fan fiction. These fan interventions transpose Jenkins’ concept of “textual poaching” from appropriating not only mainstream texts, but texts within fandom itself. Ultimately these online spaces function as popular and accessible alternatives to the pedagogical spaces opened up by academic discourse.�
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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 framework of this research paper. There will be a constant interplay between
the theories and the main text, that is, the seven Harry Potter books that together
represent the Harry Potter series. Additionally, the author‟s opinion acquired from
invaluable fan interviews will be utilized in order to improve the understanding of the
characters motivations.
The introduction is a brief explanation of key terms and theories that are essential to the
exploration of love in the Harry Potter series. The study comprises five chapters. The
first three chapters are concerned with the three main manifestations of love
represented in the series, namely; parental love, friendship and romance respectively.
Chapter Four focuses on the adaptation of the novels into movies and the subsequent
result that this has on the depiction of love. Chapter Five highlights the finding of the
study conducted.English Studies
M.A. (English)
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Monroe, Lauren W. "It's Real For Us: The Literariness of Fanfiction and Its Use As Corrective Fiction." 2013. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/honors_theses/13.
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The focus of this thesis is how fanfiction, an underground subculture of web literature written about popular books, films, television shows, and comics, treats the original works it derives from. In this study I will examine the ways in which fans reshape the original stories of the works they write about, and the ways in which they do not, and speculate the reasons they have chosen to do so. This project examines fanfiction surrounding three young adult novels: Twilight, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter. I examine each of these works and their respective fanfiction in order to highlight important themes in each work and problems inherent in each story to account for the changes fanfiction writers make in their literature. I have chosen one overarching theme in the fanfiction in each fandom and will explore why fanfiction authors have overwhelmingly chosen to change the source material to suit that theme.
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Tremblay, Chantale. "La reconstruction "moldue" d'un "wonderland" : comment la magie de la lecture opère-t-elle?" Mémoire, 2011. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4081/1/M11927.pdf.
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À l'aube du XXIe siècle, la littérature merveilleuse connaît un regain de popularité, particulièrement avec la venue de phénomènes éditoriaux tels que la série Harry Potter. Les sept romans de Joanne Kathleen Rowling, publiés entre 1997 et 2007, sont l'objet d'une popularité toujours croissante à chaque nouvelle publication. L'intérêt pour la littérature merveilleuse n'est cependant pas nouveau, particulièrement en Grande-Bretagne; en effet, ce point du globe a été le berceau d'une vague d'engouement pour la littérature merveilleuse tout aussi forte environ 150 ans plus tôt, avec la publication du roman Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. La liste des auteurs qui ont été inspirés par Carroll, ou du moins qui ont contribué à faire gonfler la vague, est passablement longue. Dans ces sociétés où l'enfant possède une importance capitale, que ce soit la société victorienne ou la nôtre, il n'est pas si étonnant que les ouvrages qui le concernent captent autant l'intérêt du public. Cependant, ce ne sont pas tous les romans qui parlent des enfants qui connaissent le même succès; comment expliquer que le choix des lecteurs s'arrête sur telle œuvre plutôt que sur telle autre? Nous postulons que la popularité de certains ouvrages réside principalement dans le processus de lecture qui prévaut dans chacun d'eux. L'acte de lecture est une activité complexe; certains textes demandent à être lus un peu de la façon dont on participe à un jeu, soit en étant confronté à des indéterminations et en résolvant des énigmes, mais surtout en se laissant prendre au jeu du « let's pretend ». Dans les œuvres qui retiennent notre attention pour cette étude, soit les deux romans de Carroll mettant en scène le personnage d'Alice ainsi que les sept romans de la série Harry Potter, de nombreux effets de lecture nous permettent de démontrer ce postulat. Dans le premier chapitre, nous procédons à un court compte-rendu des connaissances concernant les genres littéraires auxquels se rattachent les œuvres de notre corpus, c'est-à-dire le merveilleux et la fantasy, ainsi que les éléments caractéristiques de ceux-ci. Nous présentons ensuite différents outils provenant des théories de la lecture qui nous permettront de mieux saisir les mécanismes du texte contribuant à provoquer un fort phénomène d'adhésion chez le lectorat, tels que la théorie des mondes possibles (Eco) ou celle des univers fictionnels (Pavel), les concepts d'indétermination (Iser) et de préconstruit (Thérien), les régies de lecture (Gervais) ainsi que des théories présentant la lecture comme un jeu (Calinescu et Picard). Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous montrons comment les œuvres de notre corpus, en s'inscrivant dans le genre merveilleux et en parlant de l'enfant, suggèrent un cadre de lecture ludique. Les nombreuses allusions au jeu qui les parsèment, que ce soit le jeu d'échec, de Quidditch, ou encore celui du « faire-semblant », ainsi que les stratégies textuelles qui s'y trouvent conduisent le lecteur à procéder à une construction mentale des univers qui lui sont présentés de la même façon qu'il résoudrait des énigmes. Les blancs laissés dans le texte contribuent à stimuler son imagination et les effets de surprise, largement présents dans ces textes, augmentent le plaisir ressenti lors de la lecture. Toujours dans le deuxième chapitre, nous démontrons que les auteurs utilisent des procédés semblables en ce qui concerne l'organisation spatiale de leurs univers; ils utilisent des frontières instables et perméables qui font hésiter le lecteur quant aux propriétés du monde dans lequel il pénètre et qui le désorientent. Enfin, dans le troisième chapitre, nous voyons comment l'identité des personnages se construit autour d'un noyau fixe, constitué par le nom du personnage, ainsi que d'une partie mobile et morcelée, soumise aux transformations. La quête identitaire qui fait l'objet des œuvres de notre corpus contribue à renforcer l'identification au personnage, puisque ces œuvres s'organisent autour d'une construction en miroir, qui fait en sorte que le monde de la fiction reflète le monde réel connu du lecteur.
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MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : merveilleux, fantasy, lecture, mondes possibles, univers fictionnels, indéterminations, préconstruits, jeu, enfance, identité, miroir, Lewis Carroll, J.K. Rowling, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Harry Potter.
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Potter, Mary-Anne. "Arboreal thresholds - the liminal function of trees in twentieth-century fantasy narratives." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25341.
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Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. Though the presence of trees is often peripheral to the main narrative action, their representation is necessary within the fantasy trope. Their consistent inclusion within fantasy texts of the twentieth century demonstrates an enduring arboreal legacy that cannot be disregarded in its contemporary relevance, whether they are represented individually or in collective forests. The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct a study of various prominent fantasy texts of the twentieth century, including the fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Robert Holdstock, Diana Wynne Jones, Natalie Babbitt, and J.K. Rowling. In scrutinising these texts, and drawing on insights offered by liminal, ecocritical, ecofeminist, mythological and psychological theorists, I identify the primary function of trees within fantasy narratives as liminal: what Victor Turner identifies as a ‘betwixt and between’ state (1991:95) where binaries are suspended in favour of embracing potentiality. This liminality is constituted by three central dimensions: the ecological, the mythological, and the psychological. Each dimension informs the relationship between the arboreal as grounded in reality, and represented in fantasy. Trees, as literary and cinematic arboreal totems are positioned within fantasy narratives in such a way as to emphasise an underlying call to bio-conservatorship, to enable a connection to a larger scope of cultural expectation, and to act as a means through which human self-awareness is developed.English Studies
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