VERBAL FEATURES OF SPELLS IN J. ROWLING’S NOVELS ABOUT HARRY POTTER: TRANSLATION ASPECT

Small - world and Scale - free Features in Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels which has got a huge success. To explore the reasons of so successful of the novel behind, we analyzed the characters network in Harry Potter from the perspective of complex networks. Studies show that the characters network in Harry Potter has got the small-world effect and scale-free feature. It is a typical complex network. The success of nove...

A Comparison of Jane Eyre and the Harry Potter Books as Novels of Development

Although written during different centuries, both Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter books follow the protagonist’s journeys from childhood to adulthood, which is why they are both often described as novels of development. This essay therefore aims to compare the protagonists’ development, looking at the differences and similarities which can be found when analysing the...

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...

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...

Evaluating Pop Culture Museum Engagements: Pedagogies of, about, and with Harry Potter