Writing a Critical Essay
Writing a Critical Essay

Author: Melissa Koons

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781981828128

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The ability to write a critical essay is an essential skill for every student to learn. Learning how to write the critical essay begins in secondary education, but it doesn't stop there. The critical essay is a specific style of essay that analyzes and interprets the author's purpose, intent, theme, or thesis of a specific body of work. Learning how to write a proper critical essay is crucial for being able to enhance, practice, and apply critical thinking skills. This book will teach students and learners of any age how to write a critical essay. It will take an introductory approach and assume that the reader has never written a critical essay before. This book will teach students: * What a critical essay is* The basic structure to a critical essay* How to organize a critical essay* How to write a critical essayWhile a person or student may excel at critical thinking skills, it can be difficult to organize those thoughts into a coherent essay that clearly communicates the writer's ideas and interpretations of the text. Learn the basics and transform your writing into proficient communication and analysis.

Reading Harry Potter
Reading Harry Potter

Author: Giselle Liza Anatol

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-05-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0313058016

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J. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powers on the morning of his eleventh birthday. The books' incredible popularity, and the subsequent likelihood that they are among this generation's most formative narratives, call for critical exploration and study to interpret the works' inherent tropes and themes. The essays in this collection assume that Rowling's works should not be relegated to the categories of pulp fiction or children's trends, which would deny their certain influence on the intellectual, emotional, and psychosocial development of today's children. The variety of contributions allows for a range of approaches and interpretive methods in exploring the novels, and reveals the deeper meanings and attitudes towards justice, education, race, foreign cultures, socioeconomic class, and gender. Following an introductory discussion of the Harry Potter phenomenon are essays considering the psychological and social-developmental experiences of children as mirrored in Rowling's novels. Next, the works' literary and historical contexts are examined, including the European fairy tale tradition, the British abolitionist movement, and the public-school story genre. A third section focuses on the social values underlying the Potter series and on issues such as morality, the rule of law, and constructions of bravery.

Lyrical and Critical Essays
Lyrical and Critical Essays

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 030782778X

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Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation

Critical Essays
Critical Essays

Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780810105898

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The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

Author: Debayan Deb Barman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1793649588

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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.

Animal Rights
Animal Rights

Author: Terry O'Neill

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780737731941

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This book shows animal rights activists and controversy.

Climate Change
Climate Change

Author: Guy Jacques

Publisher: UNESCO

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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This publication, the fifth in the IOC Ocean Forum series, discusses the complexities of the many processes involved in climate change and the difficulties in making realistic climate predictions, using a style accessible to the non-specialist reader. The authors examine the Kyoto protocol from a number of different viewpoints, highlighting the challenges involved in the development of effective climate prediction models and policy options to address the problems caused by global warming.

Critical Essays on James Baldwin
Critical Essays on James Baldwin

Author: Fred L. Standley

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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This collection offers a generous selection of reviews and essays tracing the critical reputation of James Baldwin. The editors' introduction provides a survey of the principal sources for the study of Baldwin as well as a lucid discussion of key trends in Baldwin criticism and scholarship. Avoiding frequently-anthologized essays, this collection presents fresh and engaging essays on different aspects of Baldwin's multifaceted career. ISBN 0-8161-8879-3: $38.00.