Freaks and Magic : The Freakification of Magical Creatures in Harry Potter

Types of Grammatical Metaphors in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is one of the fresh language phenomena introduced by Halliday (1985) in the framework of functional grammar. Thompson (2004) states that the salient source of GM would be ‘Nominalization’ where a noun form attempts to represent a verb form or in other words, a verb form with its different process is represented in a noun form. He continues that any wording is ought to ...

Origins of magic: review of genetic and epigenetic effects.

OBJECTIVE To assess the evidence for a genetic basis to magic. DESIGN Literature review. SETTING Harry Potter novels of J K Rowling. PARTICIPANTS Muggles, witches, wizards, and squibs. INTERVENTIONS Limited. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Family and twin studies, magical ability, and specific magical skills. RESULTS Magic shows strong evidence of heritability, with familial aggregation and c...

Critique of Critiques/An Answer to Domesticated Magic: A Critique of the Domestication of Magical Realism in Iran, Mohsen Hanif

The Absence of ‘Paucity’ & ‘Momentariness’: Two New Components of Magical Realism in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum

This article presents the question whether it is correct to classify Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum as a work of magical realism. A brief scrutiny of the elements of magical realism, particularly Authorial Reticence and concept of Hesitation indicates that contrary to the advertisement of certain sources and publishers, this novel in certain circumstances, contradicts and opposes these two indispe...

Adapted Magic A Critique of the Adaptation of Magical Realism in Iran

Magical realism was one of the trends that quickly became known, translated, and imitated in Iran's fiction. The first time the door to magic realism was opened to Iranian literature was when Ahmad Mir-alai, translated the short stories of Borges. After him, Bahman Farzaneh, with a translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, introduced the Iranian community to magical realism. This trend used...