Rowlingesque

English Etymology From en Rowling esque. Adjective Characteristic of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter. en The Detroit News 1 July 2000 16C https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/361229965/ Part of the fun of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are the names she comes up with; the author said in a recent online chat that she’s amassed dozens of notebooks where she jotted down unusual names she saw or thought up. Here are the Rowlingesque meanings behind a few: en Cynthia Whitney Hallett Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text The Edwin Mellen Press 2005 69 0-7734-6010-1 Scamander’s account is clearly rooted in the ancient descriptions, with some Rowlingesque revisions in the role of Herpo the Foul (“a Greek dark wizard and Parselmouth” who create the first Basilisk (3), among other things en w:National Post 9 276 21 September 2007 A8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/515266995/ Mr. Larsen’s Hairy Pothead learns to play Qannabbi instead of Quidditch, meets Delirious Bake instead of Sirius Black — and on it goes with other Rowlingesque characters such as Master Head Alwaze Duinthadope. en Rowling bids farewell to Harry for charity The Ottawa Citizen 2 November 2007 A10 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/468485771/ The book contains such typically Rowlingesque characters as tree stumps with eyes and hairy hearts, and includes a frontispiece noting that the stories were “translated from the original runes.” en John Burns Twilight Saga fans prepare for Friday midnight release The Vancouver Sun 30 July 2008 D3 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/497891525/ Strong sales (a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) and some serious online obsession from teen girl fans have vaulted Meyer to Rowlingesque heights of popularity; en Now we can all believe in ghostwriters The Daily Telegraph 16 February 2010 20 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/753719315/ Why, then, are we so wedded to the romantic illusion of authors as poor, tortured, hungry souls, labouring in unheated garrets until the day they are discovered and rewarded with fairy[-]tale fortunes of Rowlingesque proportions? en John Beifuss ‘Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ ends Potter saga w:The Commercial Appeal 14 July 2011 M4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/776943272/ The emphasis in the script by Steve Kloves (a credited contributor to all but one of the Potter screenplays) is on intensity, as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and best friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint — a Rowlingesque name in its own right) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) make their way back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in hopes of destroying the last of the magical “horcruxes” that contain the divided pieces of Voldemort’s soul. en w:The Anniston Star 133 221 9 August 2013 4B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/107901751/ 2010’s “The Lightning Thief” was way too Rowlingesque, a fantasy-adventure set in a magical boarding school directed by “Potter” vet Chris Columbus. en Adrian Copping Being Creative in Primary English SAGE Publications 2016 17 The classroom had been transformed to look like one from Hogwarts, with cobwebs and ‘traditional desks’ and one student teacher was performing the role of a ‘Rowlingesque’ potions teacher quite beautifully. en Ian Nathan Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them w:HarperCollins 2016 And more intimately, the Rowlingesque celebration of discovering kinship in the unlikeliest places, and being who you are without apology. en w:Ian McEwan My Purple Scented Novel Vintage 2018 9781473561076 My sixth novel didn’t do so well with the critics, though the sales were Rowlingesque. en Justin Quinn; Gabriela Kleckova Introduction Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education: Curriculum Innovation through Intercultural Communication w:Routledge 2021 Another retooled technique is that of fantasy or fairy tale, now used not for the purposes of magic realism but by a novelist like Hamid in Exit West (2017), as his characters commute between war zones and other places, through magic doors reminiscent of Rowlingesque portals. Synonyms en Rowlingian en Harry Potter en eponyms