Book Description
Originally published as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Philipps-Universiteat Marburg, 2006.
Author : Claudia Fenske
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9783631566619
Originally published as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Philipps-Universiteat Marburg, 2006.
Author : George Beahm
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781571745422
Everyone knows the story of Harry Potter and the "rags-to-riches" success of its author J.K. Rowling, but Muggles and Magic thoroughly examines every nook and cranny of the Potter universe including Rowling's life before and after Harry. Complete with an in-depth look at the real world of J.K. Rowling, including coverage of her trip to New York City in 2006, a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the Potter films, and 16 big, bold pages of photos, Muggles and Magic is certain to appeal to Potter fans of all ages.
Author : Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 147253221X
To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? What is the role of undead creatures like zombies and vampires in mythological films? Looking across the millennia, from the distrust of ancient magic and oriental cults, which threatened the new-born Christian religion, to the revival and adaptation of ancient myths and religion in the arts centuries later, this book offers an original analysis of the reception of ancient magic and the supernatural, across a wide variety of different media – from comics to film, from painting to opera. Working in a variety of fields across the globe, the authors of these essays deconstruct certain scholarly traditions by proposing original interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations, showing to what extent the visual and performing arts of different periods interlink and shape cultural and social identities.
Author : Christina Flotmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3839421489
The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of »Star Wars« and »Harry Potter«. Although much research already exists on both stories individually, this book is the first to explicitly bring them together in order to explore their set-up and the ways in which their structures help produce ideologies on gender and ethnicity. Hereby, the comparison yields central insights into the workings of modern myth and uncovers structure as integral to the success of the popular genre. It addresses academic audiences and all those wishing to approach the tales from a fresh angle.
Author : George W. Beahm
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9781571744609
Not endorsed by J.K. Rowling herself, this books covers all topics imaginable about the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472122622
The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity. Dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry. “Corpse chic” and “skull style” have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book breaks new ground by viewing these phenomena as aspects of a single movement and documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent death with dramatic changes in death-related social rituals. It offers a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds—including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, and the Harry Potter series—with real-world sociocultural practices, analyzing the aesthetic, intellectual, and historical underpinnings of the cult of death. It also places the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement in shaping the current antihumanist atmosphere. This timely, thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars of culture, film, literature, anthropology, and American and Russian studies, as well as general readers seeking to understand a defining phenomenon of our age.
Author : Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 152755824X
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of J. K. Rowling’s globally-known Harry Potter series, including Jack Thorne and John Tiffany’s stage production of Rowling’s story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016). It indicates that modern children’s fantasy school stories both perpetuate power inequalities as an effective dispositif of bioengineering, and simultaneously provide a political dissident perspective to power relations through an impossible fantasy world parallel to the real one. It applies Michel Foucault’s biopolitical analytics, referring to his key works to reveal that race and class are used interactively as an agent for the exercise of biopower, in addition to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s rereading of Foucauldian biopolitics and biopower, introducing the concepts of “multitude,” “the common,” and “the Empire” to decipher the relationship between power and resistance besides the types and results of resistance in relation to biopolitics and biopower. As such, the book will appeal to undergraduates, academics, and all readers interested in modern fantasy works and school stories as well as critical theories, including those of Foucault and Hardt and Negri, particularly biopolitical analytics.
Author : Sara Martín
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000763315
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power that needs to be controlled by the hero. The villains' stories are enactments of empowerment fantasies and cautionary tales against abusing patriarchal power. While providing readers with in-depth studies of some of the most popular contemporary fiction villans, Sara Martín shows how current representations of the villain are not only measured against previous literary characters but also against the real-life figure of the archvillain Adolf Hitler.
Author : George W. Beahm
Publisher :
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9781571744807
Not endorsed by J.K. Rowling herself, this books covers all topics imaginable about the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Author : Richard A. Spencer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476621411
J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling's quotation from Aeschylus at the front of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a matter of speculation. Her use of classical material is often presented with irony and humor. This extensive analysis of the Harry Potter series examines Rowling's wide range of allusion to classical characters and themes and her varied use of classical languages. Chapters discuss Harry and Narcissus, Dumbledore's many classical predecessors, Lord Voldemort's likeness to mythical figures, and magic in Harry Potter and classical antiquity--among many topics.