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Using the Harry Potter books, due to their popular culture dominance during the youth of the millennial generation, this study investigated the lived experience of young adults who had read all of the Harry Potter series. The findings of this study emerged around the usage of the participants of the Harry Potter books to make
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The Need for an American Translation of the Harry Potter Books Diana Patterson 229 “ One Harry to Bind Them All”: The Utilisation of Harry Potter Petra Rehling 249 Dumbledore in the Watchtower: Harry Potter as a Neo-Victorian Narrative Susan Reynolds 271 The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore: The Ethics of Information Sharing and ...
- The series taught adults that, when it comes to literature, age ain’t nothing but a number. Whether you started reading the series at an age-appropriate 12 only to wait in line at 22 for the joy of the final installment or, like my dad, you decided to indulge your overzealous daughter by reading the copy she hid in your carry-on bag on a work trip and fell in love, the Harry Potter series took adults reading books written for kids and teenagers from being something mildly embarrassing to being an everyday occurrence.
- It taught publishers that, as long as the books are GOOD, kids will read them, no matter how long they are, or how many you write. Before “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,’’ a 700-page children’s book was unheard of.
- That led to an EXPLOSION of popularity for children’s and young adult literature, especially series. Did you know that the Harry Potter series is the reason that The New York Times Bestseller List has a separate list for children’s books?
- It made book culture into pop culture. Find someone who was working at one of Harvard Square’s bookstores in July 2007 and ask them about the Harry Potter Party thrown in the square to celebrate the release of the final book in the series.
Feb 1, 2007 · Book I Extra-Social Factors 1.Suicide and Psychopathic States 2.Suicide and normal Psychological Sates-Race Heredity 3.Suicide and Cosmic Factors 4.Imitaion Book II Social Causes and Social Types…. Expand. 5,564. Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture" by D. Kidd.
Jan 24, 2007 · Popular culture is a part of common culture (Willis, 1990); enacted and perceived as 'particular event', it can transcend everyday life (for the following see Paus-Hasebrink, 2006). According to ...
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By 2001, the Harry Potter series had developed into a global phenomenon. When in 2000, the publication date for the fourth book in the series was announced by Bloomsbury together with the release date for the first film by Warner Bros., the Harry Potter community was present and vociferous.
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May 15, 2013 · Harry Potter and the Millennials tells the fascinating story of how the team designed the study and gathered results, explains what conclusions can and cannot be drawn, and reveals the challenges ...
