Den moderna fr��lsaren : En komparativ analys av Harry Potter och Jesus

The books about Harry Potter have been read by people all over the world, but is there some-thing more to them than just the magical adventure novels they first appear to be? Many have discovered the multiple layers of understanding that the author J. K. Rowling has put in her famous books, and since I was curious about a few features in the story that reminded me of certain elements which can be found in the Bible, I decided to find out more. The following essay investigates which specific features in the books about Harry Potter that can be traced to which specific parts of the Bible. The main focus is the comparison between the character Harry Potter and Jesus Christ. I use a comparative analyzing method and secure my theory with quotes from both Harry Potter and the Bible. In the end, I found a wide range of similarities between the two characters, and in my discus-sion, I raised the question whether or not the likenesses were intentional by Rowling. I reached the conclusion that the authors intention is not as important as the reader���s interpreta-tion and what they can learn from it.

Contesting binarisms in Harry Potter : creative rejigging, or gender tokenism?

This paper arises out of curiosity inspired by four Japanese women students' consumption in English of the entire Harry Potter series (five increasingly lengthy books) in 2003, and it asks whether the six novels are regressive or creative on gender grounds. In a series which pivots around binaries and rarely complicates them, does gender come in for the same treatment? In updating the schoolboy/schoolgirl and action/magic genres and locating them in a co-ed setting, does the author of Harry Potter write as a woman or does she cling to regressive gender scripts?<br />

Harry Potter arithmetic

Exercises in arithmetic based on the 'money' used in the first book in the Harry Potter series are provided.<br />

Algunos comentarios alrededor de los temas de "Las consecuencias economicas del cambio demografico" de J.W. Jones y J.E. Potter; borrador para discusion

Incluye Bibliograf��a

A computer model of family building based on expected values; abstract of an article by Potter and Sakoda

Includes bibliography

I neologismi autoriali e la loro traduzione nella saga di Harry Potter: il caso dello spagnolo e dell'italiano

L'elaborato analizza i neologismi autoriali creati nella saga di Harry Potter, dapprima nella loro versione originale studiando i meccanismi di formazione di neologismi pi�� utilizzati. In seguito, i neologismi originali vengono messi a confronto con le loro traduzioni in italiano e spagnolo, studiando le strategie traduttive messe in atto dai rispettivi team di traduttori. I dati analizzati vengono poi ricondotti alla teoria della traduzione della letteratura per l'infanzia e ai distinti filoni individuabili nei due Paesi.

Beatrice Potter e la signora Webb. La politica come amministrazione del carattere

La tesi affronta la vita e la riflessione politica di Beatrice Potter collocandola all���interno del pensiero politico britannico ed europeo della fine dell���Ottocento e dei primi decenni del Novecento. Rispetto alla maggior parte della bibliografia disponibile, risulta un���autonomia e un���originalit�� anche rispetto alla riflessione del marito Sidney Webb. La riflessione politica di Potter �� caratterizzata in primo luogo dalla ricerca del significato immediatamente politico di quella scienza sociale, che si sta affermando come approccio scientifico dominante nell���intero panorama europeo. Il lavoro �� diviso in tre ampi capitoli cos�� suddivisi: il primo ricostruisce l���eredit�� intellettuale di Potter, con particolare attenzione al rapporto con la filosofia evoluzionista di Herbert Spencer, suo mentore e amico. In questo capitolo vengono anche discussi i contributi di John Stuart Mill, Joseph Chamberlain, Alfred Marshall e Karl Marx e la loro influenza sull���opera di Potter. Il secondo capitolo prende in esame la sua opera prima dell���incontro con il marito e mostra come lo studio della povert��, del lavoro, della metropoli, della cooperazione e delle condizioni delle donne getti le basi di tutta la produzione successiva della partnership. Lo studio politico della povert��, cio�� la messa a punto di una scienza amministrativa del carattere sociale del lavoro, rappresenta uno degli elementi principali di quella che viene qui definita un���epistemologia della democrazia. Il terzo capitolo riprende il tema cruciale della democrazia nella sua accezione ��industriale�� e indaga il ruolo funzionale dello Stato, anche in relazione alla teoria pluralista di Harold Laski, al socialismo guildista di George D. H. Cole e all���idealismo di Bernard Bosanquet. Centrale in questo confronto del pensiero di Potter con il pi�� ampio dibattito degli anni venti e trenta sulla sovranit�� �� la concezione della decadenza della civilt�� capitalista e dell���emergere di una new civilisation, dopo la conversione al comunismo sovietico.

Harry Potter and the Theory of Things

This thesis investigates the boundaries between body and object in J.K. Rowling���s Harry Potter series, seven children���s literature novels published between 1997 and 2007. Lord Voldemort, Rowling���s villain, creates Horcruxes���objects that contain fragments of his soul���in order to ensure his immortality. As vessels for human soul, these objects rupture the boundaries between body and object and become ���things.��� Using contemporary thing theorists including John Plotz and materialists Jean Baudrillard and Walter Benjamin, I look at Voldemort���s Horcruxes as transgressive, liminal, unclassifiable entities in the first chapter. If objects can occupy the juncture between body and object, then bodies can as well. Dementors and Inferi, dark creatures that Rowling introduces throughout the series, live devoid of soul. Voldemort, too, becomes a thing as he splits his soul and creates Horcruxes. These soulless bodies are uncanny entities, provoking fear, revulsion, nausea, and the loss of language. In the second chapter, I use Sigmund Freud���s theorization of the uncanny as well as literary critic Kelly Hurley to investigate how Dementors, Inferi, and Voldemort exist as body-turned-object things at the juncture between life and death. As Voldemort increasingly invests his immaterial soul into material objects, he physically and spiritually degenerates, transforming from the young, handsome Tom Marvolo Riddle into the snake-like villain that murdered Harry���s parents and countless others. During his quest to find and destroy Voldemort���s Horcruxes, Harry encounters a different type of object, the Deathly Hallows. Although similarly accessing boundaries between body/object, life/death, and materiality/immateriality, the three Deathly Hallows do not transgress these boundaries. Through the Deathly Hallows, Rowling provides an alternative to thingification: objects that enable boundaries to fluctuate, but not breakdown. In the third chapter, I return to thing theorists, Baudrillard, and Benjamin to study how the Deathly Hallows resist thingification by not transgressing the boundaries between body and object.

Mrs. Potter [Illustration] : (ber��hmte amerikanische Schauspielerin)

Friedrich Beer

Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G03518