Detailed Information on Publication Record
2019
Harry Potter : The Boy Whose Story We Have Always Heard
KRAJNÍK, FilipBasic 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
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 1/7/2021 10:21, PhDr. Filip Krajník, Ph.D.
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 |
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