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Provides advice on studying for, interpreting, planning, and writing essay questions on examinations

This widely used text provides invaluable guidelines for reading literature creatively. The fourth edition presents various critical approaches to studying and evaluating the elements of literature, including fiction, drama and poetry.

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Explores differing views on eating disorders and uses the opposing viewpoints format to increase proficiency in writing critical essays, with emphasis on organizing ideas and arguments in the five-paragraph essay.

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Product Description: In this book, Winifred Davies gives a detailed analysis of the skills involved in writing in German, concentrating on three text types - essays, reports and letters. From the pre-writing stage to the final full stop, the students are encouraged to think through all different stages in the production of a successful text - preparation, structure, style and content...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay...read more

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Presents a guide to writing various types of essays, including persuasive, comparative, personal, and descriptive as well as innovative essays for the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

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Goethe's essays have been culled for their literary, aesthetic, and scientific content, by the textuality and their location at the nexus of genre and literary history have not received the critical attention they deserve. In Idioms of Uncertainty, Peter Burgard analyzes the rhetorical strategies, structure, and style of pivotal essays and relates them to the essay traditions as represented by Montaigne and Johnson. By formulating the critique of systematic philosophy inherent in the essays and by investigating their participation in the principal aesthetic dialogue of the age---the Laocoon debate, which spanned nearly half a century---Burgard situates them in the context of eighteenth-century critical discourse.Furthermore, by disclosing the connection between the antisystematic, dialogic impetus of Goethe's essayism and the theme of community in his literary works, Idioms of Uncertainty both draws out the broader social implications of the essay and shows how the analysis of Goethe's work in the genre can illuminate his entire oeuvre.In the course of the study Burgard articulates a theory of the essay as a genre by drawing on twentieth-century theoretical perspectives for his exposition of Goethe's textual strategies: theories of the essay from Lukacs, Bense, and Adorno; the textual theories of Bakhtin, Kristeva, Barthes, and Derrida; and Rorty's notion of literary-philosophical conversation. Idioms of Uncertainty thus holds interest for those concerned with genre theory and literary theory in general; and through its challenging of clich¿s about German literature at the time it assumed international significance, the book will be useful not only for Goethe scholars but also for scholars of the eighteenth century across disciplines and national boundaries. (view table of contents)

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