An Alchemical Reading of the Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling
dc.contributor.advisor | Bényei, Tamás | |
dc.contributor.author | Fazekas, Hanna Dóra | |
dc.contributor.department | DE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Kar | hu_HU |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-21T12:19:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-21T12:19:21Z | |
dc.date.created | 2009-04-06 | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-05-21T12:19:21Z | |
dc.description.abstract | For ten long years, Harry Potter is living in darkness. He is an orphan. He is unwanted and neglected. Instead of a room, he has a cupboard under the stairs. He keeps dreaming about a flash of green light that may have caused the death of his parents. There is a scar on his forehead, shaped like a bolt of lighting. A month before his eleventh birthday, he has a conversation with a huge snake. Then a letter comes, written in green ink. He is moved from his cupboard to an upstairs bedroom. On his birthday, a stranger called Rubeus Hagrid appears and takes Harry to his new home, Hogwarts, a wizarding school headed by the greatest magician of the era: Albus Dumbledore. This is the starting point of J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter books - a novel sequence filled with hidden meanings and references, following a carefully constructed underlying structure, while telling the story of four connecting generations, with also a glimpse into a fifth one, creating a circular pattern - and a reenacting alchemical process. However, to unfold this secret structure and understand the concealed allusions, we have to set off on a hermeneutical journey just like Harry himself, and reconstruct his story as the spiritual search of the human soul for wisdom, light and perfection; or, in other words, the essence of alchemy. | hu_HU |
dc.description.course | anglisztika | hu_HU |
dc.description.degree | BSc/BA | hu_HU |
dc.format.extent | 37 | hu_HU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2437/168759 | |
dc.language.iso | en | hu_HU |
dc.rights.access | ip | hu_HU |
dc.subject | alchemy | hu_HU |
dc.subject | magic | hu_HU |
dc.subject.dspace | DEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudomány::Összehasonlító irodalomtudomány | hu_HU |
dc.title | An Alchemical Reading of the Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling | hu_HU |
dc.type | diplomamunka |