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Not So Magical: Issues With Racism, Classism, And Ideology In Harry Potter, Tiffany L. Walters Northern Michigan University

Not So Magical: Issues With Racism, Classism, And Ideology In Harry Potter, Tiffany L. Walters

All NMU Master's Theses

Although it is primarily a young adult fantasy series, the Harry Potter books are also focused on the battle against racial purification and the threat of a strictly homogeneous magical society. This thesis examines the intricacies and depth of the racial ideologies presented in the books, as well as how they can be equated with historical and real world issues. More specifically, this thesis will study the delineations of human and non-human beings, and how the institutional biases they struggle against are supported by traditional principles. Though these are important ideas worthy of discussion, I also hope that further examination ...

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Gender Stereotypes In Children's Literature, Christine C. Nebbia University of Northern Iowa

Gender Stereotypes In Children's Literature, Christine C. Nebbia

Graduate Research Papers

This research paper focused on the creation of nine professional development sessions using critical literacy practices in order to analyze and examine gender stereotypes in children's literature addressed in the classroom. This professional development grew out of an in-depth examination of the research over the past 40 years addressing gender stereotypes and gender representation in children's literature, as well as, the literature on critical literacy practices and issues of social justice. The professional development sessions were designed around three major goals: to enable teachers to independently analyze children's literature for gender stereotypes; to help teachers understand the ...

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Fairy Tales And Adaptations: A Unit Of Study For High School Seniors, Angelica P. Babauta James Madison University

Fairy Tales And Adaptations: A Unit Of Study For High School Seniors, Angelica P. Babauta

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This project is a unit of study designed for high school seniors in an advanced English class. The topic is fairy tales and adaptations, and through these twelve complete lesson plans, students will be led to examine the way fairy tales and society influence one another based on how a classic fairy tale is adapted over time. Students will study Jeanne Leprince de Beaumont's "Beauty and the Beast," the Brothers Grimm's "Brier Rose," and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" as the original fairy tales. The adaptations paired with these texts are Alex Flinn's Beastly, James ...

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Constructing Reality: The Role Of Mass Media In The Hunger Games Series, Jordan E. Nettles University of Southern Mississippi

Constructing Reality: The Role Of Mass Media In The Hunger Games Series, Jordan E. Nettles

Honors Theses

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins is an incredibly popular Young Adult series that has had a large impact on both children and adults. The media environment within The Hunger Games trilogy can provide insight into our own world. This thesis seeks to discuss how governing structures in the trilogy, the Capitol and District 13, manipulate the media to secure their own power. Using contemporary research on media theories, media methods, and media effects, this thesis focuses primarily on the Capitol and District 13’s efforts to create and use the media image of Katniss Everdeen, the central character ...

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The First Chronicle Of Narnia: The Restoring Of Names, Kathryn Lindskoog Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The First Chronicle Of Narnia: The Restoring Of Names, Kathryn Lindskoog

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Notes how the names of people and things in Narnia are well-chosen to establish character and setting succinctly. Examines names and symbols for their usefulness in communicating the moral significance of events in the Chronicles of Narnia.

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The Great American Love Affair: Indians In The Twilight Saga, Brianna R. Burke SelectedWorks

The Great American Love Affair: Indians In The Twilight Saga, Brianna R. Burke

Brianna R. Burke

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"Dwarves Are Not Heroes": Antisemitism And The Dwarves In J.R.R. Tolkien's Writing, Rebecca Brackmann Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN

"Dwarves Are Not Heroes": Antisemitism And The Dwarves In J.R.R. Tolkien's Writing, Rebecca Brackmann

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

This challenging paper on mythology in Tolkien’s depiction of Dwarves brings some much-needed definition to the ongoing discussion of Tolkien and race. Quotes China Miéville’s observation that “racism is true” in Tolkien’s works, “in that people really are defined by their race,” but demonstrates how Tolkien’s conception of the racial characteristics of Dwarves changed over his lifetime. Yet we come back in the end to the inescapable fact, with all its implications, that the Dwarves continue to have a set of recognizable racial characteristics.

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"Think Happy Thoughts": Peter Pan As A Tragic Hero, Sarah M. Connelly Gettysburg College

"Think Happy Thoughts": Peter Pan As A Tragic Hero, Sarah M. Connelly

Student Publications

Using Aristotle's definition of the "tragic hero," this work will explore J.M. Barrie's novel, Peter and Wendy, and how Peter is a tragic figure. In this paper I argue that Peter Pan is not only a tragic hero whose human frailty— in Peter’s case, his fear of growing old— causes him to make the terrible mistake of rejecting his own development of humanity and the opportunity for redemption through maternal love, but that Barrie uses Peter to emphasize that, contrary to the Romantic conception of childhood, children need the guidance of parents in order to live ...

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Sexism In Children's Literature, Joyce Ann Kaufman Ouachita Baptist University

Sexism In Children's Literature, Joyce Ann Kaufman

Honors Theses

The Little Miss Muffet syndrome, which depicts females as helpless, easily frightened, and dreadfully dull occurs repeatedly in children's literature.

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Wendy's Story In J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Jessica Hedrick Murray State University

Wendy's Story In J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Jessica Hedrick

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

Although known today as simply Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie’s classic children’s novel was originally titled Peter and Wendy. This paper explores the famous children’s story from Wendy Darling’s perspective, taking particular interest in the narrator’s contradictory stance on Wendy her agency in the original novelized text. Peter Pan may be the most well known of Barrie’s characters, but the novel’s story is Wendy’s. The relationship between a mother and her children forms the crux of the novel; without Wendy, without her relationship with her own mother and her desire to play ...

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A Knock In The Night: Short Story, Ujwal S. Rajaputhra 2020 University of Southern California

A Knock In The Night: Short Story, Ujwal S. Rajaputhra

The Macksey Journal

Two runaways survive a winter's night in the deep woods between one town and the next.

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Dorothy L. Sayers Collection Finding Aid, Taylor University 2020 Taylor University

Dorothy L. Sayers Collection Finding Aid, Taylor University

Collection Finding Aids

The Dorothy L. Sayers Collection features a variety of rare books, pamphlets, and articles written by and about Sayers. These include multiple first editions of her poetry books, crime novels, and reflection on theology.

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Owen Barfield Collection Finding Aid, Taylor University 2020 Taylor University

Owen Barfield Collection Finding Aid, Taylor University

Collection Finding Aids

The Owen Barfield Collection features a variety of books and articles by and about Barfield. It also includes letters and manuscripts written by Barfield, as well as rare and first editions of his books.

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Charles Williams Collection Finding Aids, Taylor University 2020 Taylor University

Charles Williams Collection Finding Aids, Taylor University

Collection Finding Aids

The Charles Williams Collection features a variety of books and articles by and about Williams. It also includes letters and typescripts written by Williams, in addition to rare and first editions of his books.

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"No Sex Please, We're Narnians": Turkish Delight, Twelfth Night, And The Problem Of Susan, Andy Gordon 2020 York St John University (retired)

"No Sex Please, We're Narnians": Turkish Delight, Twelfth Night, And The Problem Of Susan, Andy Gordon

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Tom Bombadil And The Spirit Of Objectivity, Dani Inkpen 2020 Cape Breton University

Tom Bombadil And The Spirit Of Objectivity, Dani Inkpen

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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The "Polish Inkling": Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski As J.R.R. Tolkien's Friend And Scholar, Łukasz Neubauer 2020 Koszalin University of Technology, Poland

The "Polish Inkling": Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski As J.R.R. Tolkien's Friend And Scholar, Łukasz Neubauer

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Editorial, Janet Brennan Croft 2020 University of Northern Iowa

Editorial, Janet Brennan Croft

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Utopian And Dystopian Themes In Tolkien's Legendarium, By Mark Doyle, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2020 Texas State University

Utopian And Dystopian Themes In Tolkien's Legendarium, By Mark Doyle, Robert T. Tally Jr.

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics Through J.R.R. Tolkien’S The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings, By Christopher A. Snyder, Zachary D. Schmoll 2020 Independent Scholar

Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics Through J.R.R. Tolkien’S The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings, By Christopher A. Snyder, Zachary D. Schmoll

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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The Worlds Of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth, By John Garth, Mike Foster 2020 Independent Scholar

The Worlds Of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth, By John Garth, Mike Foster

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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A Cosmic Shift In The Screwtape Letters, Brenton D.G. Dickieson 2020 University of Prince Edward Island

A Cosmic Shift In The Screwtape Letters, Brenton D.G. Dickieson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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"I Wolde Be There / Byyonde The Water": Consolation In Pearl And The Silver Chair, Tiffany E. Schubert 2020 Wyoming Catholic College

"I Wolde Be There / Byyonde The Water": Consolation In Pearl And The Silver Chair, Tiffany E. Schubert

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Useful Little Men: George R. R. Martin's Dwarfs As Grotesque Realists, Joseph Rex Young 2020 Independent Scholar

Useful Little Men: George R. R. Martin's Dwarfs As Grotesque Realists, Joseph Rex Young

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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The Inner Consistency Of Mythology: The Mythological Kernel And Adaptation In The Golden Compass, Douglas A. Barnim 2020 Independent Scholar

The Inner Consistency Of Mythology: The Mythological Kernel And Adaptation In The Golden Compass, Douglas A. Barnim

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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"Her Enchanted Hair": Rossetti, "Lady Lilith," And The Victorian Fascination With Hair As Influences On Tolkien, Kathryn Colvin 2020 Long Beach City College

"Her Enchanted Hair": Rossetti, "Lady Lilith," And The Victorian Fascination With Hair As Influences On Tolkien, Kathryn Colvin

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Tolkien's Lost Knights, Ben Reinhard 2020 Christendom College

Tolkien's Lost Knights, Ben Reinhard

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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A Dictionary Of Symbols: Revised And Expanded, Janet Brennan Croft 2020 University of Northern Iowa

A Dictionary Of Symbols: Revised And Expanded, Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Reality, Magic, And Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths, Alissa Renales 2020 Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

Reality, Magic, And Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths, Alissa Renales

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Music In Tolkien's Work And Beyond, Edited By Julian Eilmann And Friedhelm Schneidewind, Megan N. Fontenot 2020 University of Georgia

Music In Tolkien's Work And Beyond, Edited By Julian Eilmann And Friedhelm Schneidewind, Megan N. Fontenot

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Tiffany Walters Northern Michigan University

Angelica Babauta James Madison University

Sarah Connelly Gettysburg College

Jessica Hedrick Murray State University

Ella Donnelly University of Puget Sound

Natalie Sheppard University of New Orleans

Verlyn Flieger (emeritus) University of Maryland

Jordan Treece Cedarville University

Sharmaine Browne City University of New York (CUNY)

Michael Livingston The Citadel, SC

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