EN201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cinderella, Lord Voldemort, Bildungsroman
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History: first imagined hp on train ride in 1990, did not complete in 1996 by which time she had planned the whole series, novel rejected 9 12 times, then publisher gave it to daughter to read and she said publish it, originally 90000 words later shortened to 77000 words, won a lot of awards, had to make a separate children"s list in ny times best seller list because it was at the top overall for so long. However, fantasy protagonists often lack fairy tale heroic features can be scared and even reluctant to perform the task and sometimes fail: the final goal of fantasy is seldom marriage and enthronement in contemporary philosophical and ethical fantasy the goal is mainly a matter of spiritual maturation, song of the lioness female protagonist, a fantastic adventure with a frame narrative grounded in the primary world.
