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Rowlingian
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English
Etymology
From en Rowling ian.
Adjective
Characteristic of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter.
en The Classical Outlook 78/79 w:American Classical League 2000 94 1 “Nigidius Potter” sounds like a good Rowlingian name, and Publius Nigidius Potter, the friend of Cicero who died in exile in 45 BC, was indeed a wizard.
en Chris Knight Too much magic for one kid to handle w:National Post 9 288 5 October 2007 PM7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/514408541/ 2 In any case, having established its Rowlingian street cred, the film then does what Potter’s adaptors never dared, and turns its protagonist from an 11-year-old British boy into a 13-year-old American one, thus combining old English charm and Connecticut Yankee ingenuity like nothing since Arthurian times.
en w:Tison Pugh Dumbledore’s Queer Ghost: Homosexuality and Its Heterosexual Afterlives in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature New York, N.Y.; London w:Routledge 2011 93 978-0-415-88633-8 Auntie Muriel taunts Doge about his youthful dedication to Dumbledore, dismissing his affections (“Oh, we all know you worshipped Dumbledore” [DH 154]), and Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth more colorfully condemns Doge’s affection for Albus: “Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did” (DH 563). This line, with typical Rowlingian ambiguity, hints at an anal attraction while refusing to state it.
en Michael G. Gaunt Perspectives: Old English and Middle English Lightning Literature & Composition: British Medieval: Student’s Guide 2nd Washougal, Wash. Hewitt Homeschooling 2011 unit 1, lesson 2 (Anglo-Saxon Riddles) 56 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578962389/page/56/mode/1up 1-57896-252-8 As we refer to “Shakespearean” English, perhaps those future English speakers will refer to “Rowlingian” English (after the author of the Harry Potter books).
en Maddie Crum 'The Casual Vacancy': Harry Potter Fans Will Enjoy JK Rowling's New Book w:HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/casual-vacancy-harry-potter_n_1917633 29 September 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20220628200418/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/casual-vacancy-harry-potter_n_1917633 28 June 2022 Broad-stroke storytelling, a critical eye turned towards class differences and tender moments between friends? That's positively Rowlingian!
en Dagmar Hofmann The Phoenix, the Werewolf and the Centaur: The Reception of Mythical Beasts in the Harry Potter Novels and their Film Adapatations Filippo Carlà; Irene Berti Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts Bloomsbury Academic 2015 2016 173 978-1-47252-783-7 The healing power of tears has never been a characteristic of the phoenix in its long development of reception and it is obviously a modern or even ‘Rowlingian’ invention.
en Fiona McCulloch ‘We’re All Human, Aren’t We?’: Scottish Cosmopolitics in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Contemporary British Children’s Fiction and Cosmopolitanism Children’s Literature and Culture New York, N.Y.; London w:Routledge 2017 part I (Ethical Endeavours) 37–38 978-1-138-82830-8 Downes’s desire for narratological absolutes continues with an attack on Rowling’s thematic uncertainties regarding issues such as race, where ‘Rowlingian political correctness, like Rowlingian magic, is a mere superaddition, a futile attempt to control the damage done by a foundational decision not to create a secondary world worthy of the name’ (Downes 173). On the contrary, Rowling’s fusion of realism and fantasy within a Scottish gothic mode enhances the dialogical dynamics of cultural exchange in a series that is rich in its refusal to offer closure and fixed certainties in its engagement with a contemporary world which, similarly, offers no such thing.
Synonyms
en Rowlingesque
en Harry Potter
en eponyms