THE ANALYSIS OF FANTASY GENRE'S FORMULA ON HARRY POTTER SERIES

Abraham Lincoln and Harry Potter: children's differentiation between historical and fantasy characters.

Based on the testimony of others, children learn about a variety of figures that they never meet. We ask when and how they are able to differentiate between the historical figures that they learn about (e.g., Abraham Lincoln) and fantasy characters (e.g., Harry Potter). Experiment 1 showed that both younger (3- and 4-year-olds) and older children (5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds) understand the status ...

Brand New Critical Essays on Harry Potter

enjoy more popularity than Robinson itself. For example, the story of Genoveve exploits the Robinsonian theme in that its heroine leads a solitary life in the wilderness, physically isolated from other people. Genoveve was staged in Croatia as early as 1732, while Campe’s Robinson was first published in Croatian in 1796. For another century, Genoveve, translated into Croatian from the German ve...

Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience

Kara Lynn Andersen, in her paper "Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience," argues for a rethinking of assumptions of child audiences as passive readers and viewers through an analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Andersen argues that instead of categorizing children as passive and homogenous subjects of analysis, they should instead be incorporated as participants in the discourse a...

‘The Boy who Lived’ in the Cupboard: ‘Queer Readings’ and Rowling’s Harry Potter Series

The paper argues that the articulation of non-normative identities, desires and meanings are possible even within literary representations that are also forms of deliberations to conform to (hetro)normalcy. A queer reading of the popular Harry Potter series created by J. K. Rowling is attempted to identify the understated proclivities of subversion in texts that have a non-esoteric readership. ...

Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children.