The tournament is being hosted in partnership with Brand Innovators and was announced live from the 19th Annual Desert Smash in Indian Wells, California. Re-reading 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' aims to develop your appreciation of a remarkable novel.The casino's past tournaments have featured tennis stars such as Andy Roddick, Milos Raonic and Victoria Azarenka.īaha Mar, a Bahaman luxury casino resort, has announced the Baha Mar Smash celebrity tennis tournament and fundraiser which is to take place December 8-11, 2023. The novel's position in global culture is set out and the moral values of the novel are explored, including Harry's role as a Christian hero. It offers to adult readers as much as it does to the young adults and children that were its first audience, and as such it has the potential to become a true literary classic.

This book may be regarded as an early contribution to the literary criticism of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.ĭemonstrating that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a polished work by a highly skilled writer, this book suggests that it can stand alongside established works of literature. For a book which has received the massive sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (15,000,000 copies in the first twenty-four hours alone) there has so far been amazingly little proper criticism published. Inevitably you will agree with much and disagree with much that is written here - that is the nature of literary criticism - but the process of agreeing and disagreeing develops a more considered critical response.

This book is presented to those re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as a prompt for serious consideration of the novel as a work of literature. Yet it is also a step towards serious literary criticism of the novel, based on the view that the Harry Potter stories should be treated as quality literature. Structured in a fun and lighthearted manner, the book gives each chapter a start rating, and assessment includes a look at the heroes and villains in each. J K Rowling's excellence as a writer is explored alongside her occasional shortcomings. There's plenty for Harry Potter fans in its attention to detail and examination of theories, plot holes and more. It looks at such areas as literary quality, character analysis and plot analysis, while showing that the novel is contextualised within the British culture which informs it.

Re-reading 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' provides an insightful commentary which takes readers through the novel.

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