@inbook{dd67ee686c7b40088696754ac806a0e9,
title = "Harry Potter and the Battle for the Soul: The Revival of the Psychomachia in Secular Fiction",
abstract = "Locating Christian motifs has been a popular approach of literary criticism to the Harry Potter series in the past years. The vast majority of critics have come to the conclusion that the novels either feature only a few, unsystematic references to Christian ethics or none at all. However, the Harry Potter heptalogy does indeed carry a Christian message, even if this message remains to some extent concealed as a result of the novels{\textquoteright} secularized language, setting and characters. The series both follows the fashion of the psychomachia, a literary genre based on Christian morals, and uses central motifs of the psychomachia.",
keywords = "children's literature, psychomachia, heroism, allegory, postmodernism, literature",
author = "Rita Singer",
year = "2011",
month = mar,
day = "28",
doi = "10.4324/9781315586748",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781409412441",
series = "Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
pages = "25--38",
editor = "Katrin Berndt and Lena Steveker",
booktitle = "Heroism in the Harry Potter Series",
address = "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",
}