Essays about: "harry Potter"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 66 essays containing the words harry Potter.

  1. 21. Fantasy Fiction from a Gender Perspective : A Study of Gender Differences in Peter Pan and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Rebecka Ivarsson; [2018]
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  3. 22. Can Fanfiction Authors Transcend the Binary? : Male homoerotic relationships in the Harry Potter Universe.

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Sara Högvall; [2018]
    Keywords : Gender; Homoerotic; Homosexual; Heterosexual; Third Gender; Binary; Compulsory Sexuality; Heteronormative; Harry Potter;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate whether fanfiction allows for liberation by disrupting traditional gender roles and if it can transcend the binary categorization of sex. This will be done by looking at the transformation of a heteronormative relationship into a homosexual one. .. READ MORE

  4. 23. Harry Potter and the Battle against Racism in EFL classrooms : A study of how racism is portrayed in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - novel and movie, with a CRT perspective in pedagogical settings.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Ebba Berggren; [2017]
    Keywords : Racism; critical race theory; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; upper secondary school students; reader response; defamiliarization; EFL.;

    Abstract : This essay’s aim is to investigate how Rowling uses her novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to criticize racism in her magical world and ours. A secondary aim concerns how Rowling’s critical stance creates ways to resist racism for readers in the EFL classroom. READ MORE

  5. 24. Crossing the Threshold: Teaching Transmedial Narratology with Videogames and Film

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Martin Klinge; [2017]
    Keywords : Hero’s Journey; transmedial narratology; media; narrative structure; teaching.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is threefold. First, to look at the curriculum of English in the upper secondary classroom and what the role of narratology is. Secondly, an analysis of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and Journey (2012) through Campbell’s monomyth and how the stages are presented to the viewer/player. READ MORE

  6. 25. Evil Women in Harry Potter : Breaking Gender Expectations and Representations of Evil

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Rebecca Lundhall; [2017]
    Keywords : Judith Butler; performativity; stereotypes; femininity; masculinity;

    Abstract : With a focus on gender expectations, this qualitative study analyses how Bellatrix Lestrange and Dolores Umbridge in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series represent evil. READ MORE