Harry Potter : The Boy Whose Story We Have Always Heard

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Harry Potter : The Boy Whose Story We Have Always Heard

KRAJNÍK, Filip

Basic information

Original name

Harry Potter : The Boy Whose Story We Have Always Heard

Name in Czech

Harry Potter : Chlapec, jehož příběh jsme vždy slýchávali

Authors

KRAJNÍK, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Opava, Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies (6th-7th September 2018), p. 108-115, 8 pp. 2019

Publisher

Silesian University in Opava

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00113528

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-7510-398-7

UT WoS

000658853200013

Keywords (in Czech)

J. K. Rowlingová; Harry Potter; dětská literatura; archetypální kritika; Jordan B. Peterson; Maps of Meaning; metamýtus

Keywords in English

J. K. Rowling; Harry Potter; children’s literature; myth criticism; Jordan B. Peterson; Maps of Meaning; meta-myth

Abstract

V originále

The present paper attempts to establish the reason behind the enormous popularity of the Harry Potter series – a topic which has been abundantly commented on in recent years by both experts in the fields of literature and culture, as well as professionals from the publishing industry, although with no clear consensus. Employing the concept of myth as an essentially psychological phenomenon, as presented by the Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson is his Maps of Meaning (1999), the article argues both that Harry Potter is a fundamentally mythological story which strongly resonates with basic human experience of the world and that it is J. K. Rowling’s adherence to archetypal story-patterns, rather than her originality, that makes her series for readers so easy to relate to.

Links

MUNI/A/1396/2018, interní kód MU

Name: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments (Acronym: RCE)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

KRAJNÍK, Filip. Harry Potter : The Boy Whose Story We Have Always Heard. In Crhová, Marie; Weiss, Michaela. Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies (6th-7th September 2018). Opava: Silesian University in Opava, 2019, p. 108-115. ISBN 978-80-7510-398-7.

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KRAJNÍK, Filip. Harry Potter : The Boy Whose Story We Have Always Heard. In Crhová, Marie; Weiss, Michaela. \textit{Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies (6th-7th September 2018)}. Opava: Silesian University in Opava, 2019, p.~108-115. ISBN~978-80-7510-398-7.

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