Bot and Gemots: Anglo-Saxon Legal References in Harry Potter

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Liemer
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
Anglo Saxon

Harry Potter – National Hero and National Heroic Epic

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Ulrike Kristina Köhler
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
Feudal Society ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Heroic Epic ◽  
National Model ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Norman Invasion ◽  
Character Building

Joanne K. Rowling's teenage wizard has enchanted readers all over the globe and Harry Potter can truly be called an international hero. However, as I will argue, he is also very much an English national hero, complying with the national auto-image of the English gentleman as well as with the idea of Christian masculinity, another English auto-image holding that outdoor activity is more character-building than book learning. I will also show that the series can be read as a national heroic epic in two respects. First, Harry Potter, alias Robin Hood, has to fight the Norman yoke, an English myth haunting the nation since the Norman invasion in 1066. The series displays as a national model an apparently paternalistic Anglo-Saxon feudal society marked by tolerance and liberty as opposed to foreign rule. Second, by establishing parallels to events which took place in Nazi Germany, the series takes up the idea of fighting it, which is a popular topos in British (children's) literature which serves to reinforce a positive self-image.

scholarly journals Wikia: Between Documentary Simulacra and Documented Fictions

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Courbières ◽  
Sabine Roux
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Pyramidal Structure ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Writing Standards ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Community Spaces

Wikis are digital community spaces that have attracted high traffic but virtually no study as socio-communicational platforms. These platforms offer individuals the possibility of engaging in unique writing activities by defining a distinct material configuration and imposing a protocol of enunciation. Wikis are platforms developed through the contributions of anyone, and constitute collaborative encyclopedias dedicated to a cultural topic. This article more specifically examines the Harry Potter Wiki, which is devoted to the literary universe of J.K. Rowling. Our semio-communicational analysis concerns the structure, the authors and the contents of the French and Anglo-Saxon versions of this wiki. First we explore the writing space in which get involved cultural objects that compose the world of Harry Potter. The semiotic content of this apparently unlimited space reveals an unpublished scriptural universe that articulates fictional regime and documentary regime. This tension brings us secondly to detail the space of normalization that configure these wikis. This principle of standardization is updated, both through the writing standards they define and by the pyramidal structure of intellectual authority that manage them.Our study seeks to qualify the "invisible borders" set up by the media device wiki in order to define these singular writing objects between documentary simulacra and documented fictions.

scholarly journals Youth Literature on the Polish Publishing Market in 2008-2018 (Trends, Currents, Phenomena)

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192
Author(s):  
Michał Rogoż
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Fantasy Themes

In 2008-2018, the Polish market of young readers’ books was subject to various fluctuations related to economic determinants, demogra-phy and changing cultural trends or fashions. The dynamics of sales was determined by best-selling fantasy series coming mainly from the Anglo-Saxon literature. Although Harry Potter was not followed by an equally successful novel cycle, the main elements of its marketing strategy have been duplicated and continued. An important reinforce-ment of the message was the screening of a particular plot, and thus its multiplication in various media channels. Fantasy themes often re-ferring to the elements of horror, Gothic novels, and even dystopian thrillers dominated. Generic syncretism and even various formal ex-periments in the spirit of deconstruction have become characteristic of the contemporary youth book market. In contrast, the list of awards of the Polish section of the IBBY stands in opposition to this trend, which promoted, in the overwhelming majority, novels of morals na-ture, addressing difficult and controversial problems of adolescence, interpersonal relationships, otherness, etc. In this context, we can ob-serve a change in the values promoted and a transition from an edu-cative normative system to glorifying freedom and tolerance towards a wide range of behaviors and attitudes.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon

The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfric Abbot of Eynsham ◽  
Benjamin Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon

Why Do Firms Write Off Their Goodwill? A Comparison of Different Accounting Systems

2015 ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Avallone ◽  
Claudia Gabbioneta ◽  
Paola Ramassa ◽  
Marco Sorrentino
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Ifrs Adoption ◽  
The Future

Increased comparability of financial statements across adopting countries is one of the main objectives of IFRS adoption. The level of achievement of this objective, however, is still debatable. While some studies have documented that crosscountry comparability of financial statements has increased after IFRS adoption, other studies have found that comparability has actually decreased since 2005. We contribute to this debate by studying whether the motivations for goodwill writeoff are the same or vary across countries with different accounting systems. Although a good deal of research has investigated the motivations for goodwill writeoff, our study is the first to analyze whether these motivations vary across countries with different accounting systems. We find that firms that expect low cash flows in the future are more likely to report goodwill write-offs if they are located in countries with an Anglo-Saxon accounting system than if they are located in countries with a Continental accounting system. These results suggest that IFRS are "interpreted" differently in different countries and that harmonization of financial statements has not been fully achieved yet.

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