Cornelia Funke

examination of the outer world, thus beginning the process of Romanticization. By bringing creative imagination into the realm of Fantasien and bringing the stories to the dreary world, he will approximate to his idealized world. The Romantic aesthetic model of Novalis influenced Die unendliche Geschichte, and it in turn implicitly gave birth to a unique paradigm. Thus, its contemporary variations were born in Tintenherz and Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher. Moving away from the formless antagonist, the two latter books highlight the utilisation of imagination as a way to defy the manipulation of the society. They visualized the threat to creative imagination as a clear, antagonistic entity that the main characters can resist. Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke was published in 2003, more than two decades apart from Die unendliche Geschichte. The core paradigm of a reader being able to intercept and change the real and the fantastic realm resonates throughout it as well. Tintenherz revolves around a book-loving girl Meggie, whose father Mo can bring any character or object of a book to life by his oral storytelling. Mo renounces and hides his ability, because his reading of a book named Tintenher once summoned a group of ruffians and took his wife into the book in return. The father and daughter have been on the run since, for the villains of Tintenherz, Capricorn and Basta, aim to capture Mo and exploit his ability for accumulating their wealth. The influence of Michael Ende is…

mates, he was barely able to get up . . . the spark of the life flickered and went down. It was nearly out” (Jack London 111-112). The quote gives the true idea of how mortal Buck is. He is not invincible and was an inch from death before John Thornton rescued him. But the quote illustrates that Buck’s strength is not infinite. Something else that is important is Buck, in his weakness, had just completely given up and was just going to let himself die but after his rescue Buck is able to win…

Before meandering about with this speculation it is important to consider the case of Shirley Ardell Mason. Although not the first documented case of dissociative identity disorder, the story of Shirley Mason is irrefutably one of the most influential. Born in Dodge Center, Minnesota in 1923, Shirley Mason was an American commercial artist best known for having her life documented in the 1973 best-selling book, “Sybil.” In her childhood, Mason was subject to continual sexual abuse. She had many…

Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Introduction Cornelia de Lange Syndrome is rare genetic disease it can affect multisystem disorder that has very serve intellectual disability starting at the time of 2nd trimester. The syndrome is often refer as also Brachmann de Lange syndrome or de Lange syndrome. Its most obvious symptoms are facial features such as body hair (hirsutism) with eyebrows that are arched and meet in midline (synophrys). This paper is inform the more detail about Cornelia de Lange…

There are many passages in Inkheart, written by Cornelia Funke, that the author helps me feel as if I am actually in the book, experiencing what the characters are. One way the author does this is by including figurative language. Funke uses figurative language that help the reader visualize and compare how something might look like given the examples. Similies can give a comparison that will help the reader see the scene that is going on. On page 31 it states, “On the right of the road a…

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to do things, that other girls that i knew did not want to do. The first story I remember with a girl who pushed against the mold she was expected to fit was Igraine The Brave by Cornelia Funke. This story had an impact on me because it showed me that a girl can be anyone and anything she wants to be. Igraine wanted to be a knight, I wanted to be a scientist. In igraine’s world, girls are not expected to want to be a knight, in mine girls are expected…

Carroll, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum, “His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife” by Philip Pullman, “Reckless” by Cornelia Funke, and also by Funke “Inkheart.” I intend to delve into the history and meaning behind how and why they work. ROOTS OF PORTALS In 1858, George MacDonald wrote “Phantases.” Upon which it was thought that Carroll grounded…

From Muse to Poet: The Liberation of the Female Protagonist from a Traditional Romantic Gender Role in Cornelia Funke’s Tintenherz Introduction Modern young adult fantasy fiction has commonly inscribed its females in their ancillary roles of due to its preference to a gendered, conventional hero. Cornelia Funke’s German fantastical fiction for young adults, Tintenherz (2003), subverts the prevalent patriarchal gender representations, specifically concerning the models in German Romantic fiction.…

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream.”- Cornelia Funke. In literature the story Their Eyes Watching God by Zora Hurston is a perfect display of love, heartache, and cruelty. This story showcases the prominent character Janie. As the cruelty of the world spirals around Janie involving her love life is shown throughout. As the story unfolds through Janie's recollection you see how the world's cruelty reveals Janie's inner strength. Cruelty forces Janie to rely on…

rides, weather it was long or short, or if I was just sitting at the baseball field watching my brother play she always made me bring a book with me. Every summer she would take us to the library and my siblings and I would get involved in the library summer reading challenge. She made reading into a game and used my siblings and I’s competitiveness to make us read a bunch of books each summer. This got us into the habit of reading one book after another. Another literacy sponsor was my fifth…