Potter

As Nikolajeva and Scott state, “perspective, or point of view, presents an extremely interesting dilemma in picture books, which once again has to do with the difference between visual and verbal communication, between showing and telling, between iconic and conventional signs” (2001, p. 117). The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter is an example of a picture book that represents this dilemma. This essay explores the dilemma between what the words tell and what the illustrations show in Potter’s tale. It shows how on the surface Peter Rabbit seems to convey a moral message that is in accordance with the norms and values of the Victorian society in which Potter grew up. Yet, to the contrary, it argues how through her illustrations Potter conveys a different message: a desire to break free from convention and a clear affection for the rebellious Peter Rabbit.

Childrens Literature in Education, 1994

In this research, we chose the series of Beatrix Potter in English languages. Then the obtained data studied in three parts of the style of writing, the semiotics of fantasy characters, and in terms of social concepts such as power, gender, and collaboration. This research is descriptive research based on the library method. Fantasy is a fiction about a topic in the past or an event in the future that is now untrue, but relying on individual knowledge and imagination. Fantasy literature, as it stands today, was created in Europe in the eighteenth century, although its elements exist in myths and ancient myths. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) grew up in London is the most acclaimed Baby Writer. She was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals. She is well-known as the author of children's books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit. She wrote 23 books altogether, the most famous of which was "the Tale of Peter Rabbit ", which translated into 35 languages and printed 151 million copies in the world. Abstrak Dalam penelitian ini, dipilih seri Beatrix Potter dalam bahasa Inggris. Kemudian data yang diperoleh dianalisis dalam tiga bagian: gaya penulisan, semiotika karakter fantasi, dan ditinjau dari konsep sosial, seperti kekuasaan, jenis kelamin, dan kolaborasi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif berdasarkan metode kepustakaan. Fantasi adalah fiksi tentang suatu topik di masa lalu atau peristiwa di masa depan yang sekarang tidak benar, tetapi mengandalkan pengetahuan dan imajinasi individu. Sastra fantasi, seperti yang ada saat ini, diciptakan di Eropa pada abad kedelapan belas, meskipun unsur-unsurnya ada dalam mitos dan mitos kuno. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) besar di London adalah Penulis Bayi, ilustrator, ilmuwan alam, dan konservasionis yang terkenal karena buku anak-anaknya yang menampilkan hewan. Karyanya yang terkenal adalah buku anak-anak, seperti The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

American Imago, 2014

2018

ENGLISH: Sexism have always been an issue in literature for children. Most of the children’s literatures portray male as the character who leads the story, while female is passive. Moreover, authors or illustrators often apply lebels to characters based on their stereotypes on sex. Meanwhile, children’s literature which is considered as picturebooks provide role models for children in defining and shaping standards for feminine and masculine, behaviour, and attitudes toward women. This study examines the portrayal of sexism in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, applies Ambivalent Sexism theory by Peter Glick and Susan Fiske in order to find what attitudes of ambivalent sexism portrayed in the stories helped by additional tools to view sexism retrieved from The Council on Interracial Books for Children (2011). The result of this study shows that sexism still occurs in children’s literature through the story lines, lifestyles, relationship be...

Children's Literature, 2004

Who is today's most beloved child character? In the midst of J. K. Rowling's triumphs on the literary market, we would have difficulty giving any answer other than Harry Potter. Rowling's fifth novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, broke records with its first print run of 6.8 million copies and a second print run of 1.7 million copies. Rowling has become an international celebrity; she is now the richest woman in England, wealthier than the Queen herself, and she has even been named an Officer of the British Empire. However, five years before the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, James Kincaid boldly declared that "no children have ever been more desirable" than Lewis Carroll's Alice and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (275). In this essay I will argue that Harry Potter competes with Alice and Peter Pan by combining both of them inside himself. He experiences Peter's ecstasy when he gracefully flies, Peter's superhuman aptness when he battles deadly foes, and Peter's effortless capacity to make dreams come alive. At the same time, like Alice, Harry struggles to understand the difference between what appears to be true and what is true. In Book 1, he must work his way along a chessboard by playing with and against violently destructive chess pieces; by the end of Book 5 he has suffered betrayal by nearly everyone he knows. 1 Moreover, as Harry matures, he becomes angrier and angrier at the chaos surrounding him. In the fourth and fifth books, he longs to leave Hogwarts forever. Just as Alice, who is about to be decapitated by the Queen of Hearts, finally shouts out, "'Who cares for you?. .. You're nothing but a pack of cards!'" (97), Harry discovers that his dreams have deceived him-consequently, he has led all of his friends to their probable deaths and allowed his godfather to be murdered. For Alice and Harry, the knowledge that dreams and reality do not coincide accompanies their growth out of childhood. In Alice's case, childhood may have evaporated before her discovery of Wonderland (when she is only seven years old); the lovely Edenic garden that she

2013

The importance of family unit, and mothers in particular, has been at the heart of much work in children's literature since the age of oral storytelling. Numerous stories revolved around different aspects of mother(ly) characters, and many were created in honour of mothers. Accordingly, Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl often spoke openly of the beneficial influence their mothers had on their writing. On the other hand, J. M. Barrie's mother's obsession with his deceased brother was the most likely cause of Barrie's psychogenic dwarfism, resulting in one of the most distinguishable characters in children's literature, Peter Pan. Similarly, J. K. Rowling's loss of mother and her status as a single mother at the onset of the Harry Potter series reportedly had a great impact on the development of the novels. This paper, therefore, focuses on the figure of mother, absent, substitute and symbolic, in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. By examining the Jungian mother...

The analysis undertaken here was carried out with the intent of identifying how non-human animals are represented in the Harry Potter series of seven novels by author J. K. Rowling in order to try to prove that such representations outline posthumanist conceptions of animality and, consequently, of humanity. As theoretical ground for this reading, writings from thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Michel Foucault and J. M. Coetzee were selected in order to try to map a range of possibile understandings of what has been called “the question of the animal” — which also includes reflections on ethics and compassion towards this animal Other. The Harry Potter series was analysed by means of identifying literary moments crucial to the narrative that also resonate with the posthumanist theory highlighted from such authors. It was concluded that the novels present us to a posthumanist pespective of human/animal relations, which enables a Lévinasian ethics which would welcome any Other, be it human or animal.

accio. zymurgy. org, 2010

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