Conociendo el mágico mundo de Harry Potter : Sus fans, la relación con la obra y los vínculos que se tejen en el club de lectores

El presente trabajo surge a partir de una experiencia de investigación en el marco del taller "Sociología y literatura", y a lo largo de los últimos dos años y medio se ha avanzado en su desarrollo y complejización. Por ello es que intenta ser un aporte a una visión de la cultura que difiere de la sociología de la distinción, colocando en el centro de la escena a los lectores y sus preferencias y gustos para con su objeto de interés. La tesina se aboca al estudio de las experiencias y sensibilidades movilizadas por un grupo de aficionados a la saga Harry Potter (HP) y de todo el universo paralelo que esta historia conlleva. Para ello se han reconstruido, a partir de una serie de entrevistas, elementos significativos de las trayectorias de vida de algunos fanáticos, miembros y ex miembros del "Círculo de Lectores de HP" (CHP) de nuestro país y de otros clubes de lectura vinculados, directa o indirectamente a él. Al mismo tiempo se han desarrollado experiencias de trabajo de campo etnográfico en torno a los diferentes eventos y situaciones sociales de las cuales vienen participando los sujetos de la presente investigación. Con esta estrategia nos proponemos analizar y reconstruir el lugar que HP ocupa en la vida de estas personas, así como las redes de relaciones sociales que entraman y las formas de subjetivación que despliegan a partir de su afición y de su auto reconocimiento como fanáticos del fenómeno

Conociendo el mágico mundo de Harry Potter : Sus fans, la relación con la obra y los vínculos que se tejen en el club de lectores

El presente trabajo surge a partir de una experiencia de investigación en el marco del taller "Sociología y literatura", y a lo largo de los últimos dos años y medio se ha avanzado en su desarrollo y complejización. Por ello es que intenta ser un aporte a una visión de la cultura que difiere de la sociología de la distinción, colocando en el centro de la escena a los lectores y sus preferencias y gustos para con su objeto de interés. La tesina se aboca al estudio de las experiencias y sensibilidades movilizadas por un grupo de aficionados a la saga Harry Potter (HP) y de todo el universo paralelo que esta historia conlleva. Para ello se han reconstruido, a partir de una serie de entrevistas, elementos significativos de las trayectorias de vida de algunos fanáticos, miembros y ex miembros del "Círculo de Lectores de HP" (CHP) de nuestro país y de otros clubes de lectura vinculados, directa o indirectamente a él. Al mismo tiempo se han desarrollado experiencias de trabajo de campo etnográfico en torno a los diferentes eventos y situaciones sociales de las cuales vienen participando los sujetos de la presente investigación. Con esta estrategia nos proponemos analizar y reconstruir el lugar que HP ocupa en la vida de estas personas, así como las redes de relaciones sociales que entraman y las formas de subjetivación que despliegan a partir de su afición y de su auto reconocimiento como fanáticos del fenómeno

Conociendo el mágico mundo de Harry Potter : Sus fans, la relación con la obra y los vínculos que se tejen en el club de lectores

El presente trabajo surge a partir de una experiencia de investigación en el marco del taller "Sociología y literatura", y a lo largo de los últimos dos años y medio se ha avanzado en su desarrollo y complejización. Por ello es que intenta ser un aporte a una visión de la cultura que difiere de la sociología de la distinción, colocando en el centro de la escena a los lectores y sus preferencias y gustos para con su objeto de interés. La tesina se aboca al estudio de las experiencias y sensibilidades movilizadas por un grupo de aficionados a la saga Harry Potter (HP) y de todo el universo paralelo que esta historia conlleva. Para ello se han reconstruido, a partir de una serie de entrevistas, elementos significativos de las trayectorias de vida de algunos fanáticos, miembros y ex miembros del "Círculo de Lectores de HP" (CHP) de nuestro país y de otros clubes de lectura vinculados, directa o indirectamente a él. Al mismo tiempo se han desarrollado experiencias de trabajo de campo etnográfico en torno a los diferentes eventos y situaciones sociales de las cuales vienen participando los sujetos de la presente investigación. Con esta estrategia nos proponemos analizar y reconstruir el lugar que HP ocupa en la vida de estas personas, así como las redes de relaciones sociales que entraman y las formas de subjetivación que despliegan a partir de su afición y de su auto reconocimiento como fanáticos del fenómeno

Harry Potter and the lexicon of doom

In a three day trial in April 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York considered whether the Harry Potter Lexicon infringed the intellectual property rights of J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers. The case has attracted great media attention. As John Crace, a reporter for The Guardian, observed: “On one side: global-celebrity author J.K. Rowling. On the other: an amateur fan site devoted to the world's favourite boy wizard. At stake: the soul of Harry Potter.” J.K. Rowling is the author of the seven book Harry Potter series, which tell the story of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his battles with Voldemort, the Lord of Darkness. As the court papers noted, “The Harry Potter Books are a modern day publishing phenomenon and success story.” Warner Brothers sought and obtained the film rights to the series. The entertainment company has thus far produced five films; a sixth is due in November 2008; and the final instalment is planned. The Harry Potter Lexicon is a reference guide created by Steven Vander Ark, a former grade school teacher. He has organised a large volume of material on the Harry Potter books and the Harry Potter films on a website in an alphabetical listing, from “A-Z”. The founder of RDR Books, Roger Rapoport, approached Ark to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon in a book form. Ark agreed to this request, and provided the publisher with a condensed version of the web-site. After RDR Books announced its intention to publish the reference book, J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers brought a legal action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that the publishers of the Harry Potter Lexicon were in breach of various intellectual property rights. A spokesperson for Warner Brothers and J.K. Rowling observed: "A fan’s affectionate enthusiasm should not obscure acts of plagiarism. The publishers knew what they were doing. The problem remains that the Lexicon takes an enormous amount of Ms. Rowling’s work and adds virtually no original commentary of its own. As we’ve said in court, it takes too much and adds too little. Authors have a duty to prevent the exploitation of their works by people who contribute nothing original, creative or interpretive." The litigation involves the intersection of copyright law, trade mark law, and consumer protection law. It has a wider significance because it deals with the protection of authorial rights; the use of literary indexes, supplements and reference guides; and the clash between character merchandising and fan fiction.

Harry Potter arithmetic

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

Severus Snape : The Complexity and Unconventional Heroism of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter Books

Being an evildoer and being evil is not always the same thing; author J.K Rowling’s character Professor Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series is balancing on that very line. Although being unfair and mean to the protagonist Harry Potter all through the series, Professor Snape is revealed as a hero in the seventh book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). This essay focuses on some of the complex psychological reasons as to why Snape acts the way he does towards Harry and why many readers consider him to be just as great a hero as the protagonist. It argues that his difficult upbringing is the cause of his complexity and the series of books are analyzed from a structuralist perspective, using A.J Greimas’ actantial model and Frank Kermode’s theories about endings and plot twists. Snape’s hate for Harry’s father, caused by years of bullying, is examined as well as his love for Harry’s mother. This essay also discusses in what ways Snape’s change of allegiance, brought on by his eternal love for Harry’s mother, is a great aid in defeating the Dark Lord.

Reading images : the book club in the art gallery

This paper seeks to document and understand one instance of community-university engagement: that of an on-going book club organised in conjunction with public art exhibitions. The curator of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Art Museum invited the authors, three postgraduate research students in the faculty of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT, to facilitate an informal book club. The purpose of the book club was to generate discussion, through engagement with fiction, around the themes and ideas explored in the Art Museum’s exhibitions. For example, during the William Robinson exhibition, which presented evocative images of the environment around Brisbane, Queensland, the book club explored texts that symbolically represented aspects of the Australian landscape in a variety of modes and guises. This paper emerges as a result of the authors’ observations during, and reflections on, their experiences facilitating the book club. It responds to the research question, how can we create a best practice model to engage readers through open-ended, reciprocal discussion of fiction, while at the same time encouraging interactions in the gallery space? To provide an overview of reading practices in book clubs, we rely on Jenny Hartley’s seminal text on the subject, The Reading Groups Book (2002). Although the book club was open to all members of the community, the participants were generally women. Elizabeth Long, in Book Clubs: Woman and the Uses of Reading in the Everyday (2003), offers a comprehensive account of women’s interactions as they engage in a reading community. Long (2003, 2) observes that an image of the solitary reader governs our understanding of reading. Long challenges this notion, arguing that reading is profoundly social (ibid), and, as women read and talk in book clubs, ‘they are supporting each other in a collective working-out of their relationship to a particular historical movement and the particular social conditions that characterise it’ (Long 2003, 22). Despite the book club’s capacity to act as a forum for analytical discussion, DeNel Rehberg Sedo (2010, 2) argues that there are barriers to interaction in such a space, including that members require a level of cultural capital and literacy before they feel comfortable to participate. How then can we seek to make book clubs more inclusive, and encourage readers to discuss and question outside of their comfort zone? How can we support interactions with texts and images? In this paper, we draw on pragmatic and self-reflective practice methods to document and evaluate the development of the book club model designed to facilitate engagement. We discuss how we selected texts, negotiating the dual needs of relevance to the exhibition and engagement with, and appeal to, the community. We reflect on developing questions and material prior to the book club to encourage interaction, and describe how we developed a flexible approach to question-asking and facilitating discussion. We conclude by reflecting on the outcomes of and improvements to the model.

TEXTA Book Club in the QUT Art Museum

TEXTA runs as a type of book club that we have previously labelled as ‘bespoke’ (Ellison, Holliday and Van Luyn 2012). We visualise TEXTA as a meeting place between the community and the university, as a space for discussion and engagement with both visual art forms and written texts. In today’s presentation, we shall briefly establish the ‘bespoke’ bookclub. We then want to introduce the idea of TEXTA as an example of a book club that negotiates Edward Soja’s Thirdspace (1996) – a space that incorporates and extends concepts of First and Secondspace (or perceived and conceived spaces). In doing so, we showcase two recent sessions of TEXTA as case studies. We will then illustrate some ideas we have for expanding TEXTA beyond the boundaries of Brisbane city, and invite feedback on how to further extend the opportunities for community engagement that TEXTA can offer in regional areas.

Eredu narratiboen manipulazioa Harry Potter-en saileko liburuetan

[Es] Una vez dada por finalizada la serie de siete entregas de Harry Potter, de J. K. Rowling, este artículo analiza la hábil integración de diferentes modelos narrativos previos para obtener un producto más complejo que la literatura popular, que es capaz de apelar a públicos lectores diversos, desde los lectores jóvenes hasta lectores adultos altamente competentes. Para este trabajo se ha partido de los estudios polisistémicos de Itamar Even-Zohar y Zohar Shavit.

Tradição e Inovação: uma análise da popularidade das fanfictions de Harry Potter

O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar o processo de criação e manutenção de fanfics escritas em língua portuguesa da saga Harry Potter e identificar razões pelas quais os usuários leitores e colaboradores optam, ou preferem, certas fics em detrimento de outras. O trabalho agrega, em seu corpo, um apanhado sobre a saga, desde sua autora, passando por seus personagens e enredo, até uma contextualização da relação de sucesso dessas Obras com a prática de publicações e manutenções de fanfictions, sendo abordados e registrados aspectos relevantes sobre essa atividade. São trazidos à tona os principais entendimentos teóricos relacionados ao universo das fics, tais como a preservação do tradicional sobre o novo (seguir o cânone), assim como à presença de alguns padrões comunicacionais e textuais (periodicidade e qualidade no texto), como fatores de relevância para a popularidade de uma história. Finalmente, são analisados dados de questionários encaminhados à parte mais significativa da amostra escolhida, com o objetivo de investigar quais fatores são preponderantes para que uma fanfiction se torne popular, uma vez que esta atividade está inserida num espaço tecnológico, no qual a inovação é força motriz

De Alma-Ata a Harry Potter : um testemunho pessoal

RESUMO - Quando, finalmente, entendemos a importância dos cuidados de saúde primários, procuramos construí-los à maneira das antigas catedrais góticas dos velhos burgos medievais: desenhadas por poucos, construídas por alguns, frequentadas obrigatoriamente por todos os demais. Através de todo este esforço, aprendemos. Os cuidados de saúde primários acontecem todos os dias: quando as pessoas comuns aprendem ou fazem alguma coisa de útil à sua saúde e à dos que lhes estão próximos; sempre que comunicam com alguém habilitado a ouvi-los e apoiá-los sobre as suas dúvidas, medos, fantasias, angústias, preferências ou necessidades de saúde. Para assegurar o reforço dos cuidados de saúde primários necessitamos de conhecimentos renovados, «teorias de acção» mais elaboradas, alguma sabedoria e muita imaginação.

Harry Potter i la formació de lectors. 'Harry Potter y la formación de lectores'.

Resumen basado en el del autor en catalán

Fills de Harry Potter. 'Hijos de Harry Potter'.

Análisis sobre el fenómeno literario de Harry Potter. El autor se plantea algunas características que tienen los libros juveniles que se mantienen en la lista de los más vendidos.

Didàctica de les tecnologies de la informació i de la comunicació en el tractament a la diversitat (ESO) : desenvolupament de material didàctic i d'estratègies de treball cooperatiu a partir de la participació en el projecte telemàtic El món de Harry Potter. 'Didáctica de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación en el tratamiento a la diversidad (ESO) : desarrollo de material didáctico y de estrategias de trabajo cooperativo a partir de la participación en el proyecto telemático El mundo de Harry Potter'.

Resumen del autor en catalán