The Norton Reader,9780393973839

The Norton Reader

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Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
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Table of Contents

Index of Rhetorical Modes xiii
Preface xix
To Students: Reading and Writing with the Norton Reader xxiii
PERSONAL REPORT
Graduation
1(9)
Maya Angelou
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
10(3)
Zora Neale Hurston
A Victim
13(2)
Bruno Bettelheim
One Violent Crime
15(5)
Bruce Shapiro
The Town Dump
20(5)
Wallace Stegner
On Dumpster Diving
25(9)
Lars Eighner
On Being a Cripple
34(10)
Nancy Mairs
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
44(6)
Alice Walker
On Going Home
50(2)
Joan Didion
On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst
52(10)
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Waiting
62(4)
Edna O'Brien
The Brown Wasps
66(6)
Loren Eiseley
The Guardian Angel
72(2)
Gary Soto
Once More to the Lake
74(6)
E. B. White
PROSE FORMS: JOURNALS 80(322)
On Keeping a Notebook
82(5)
Joan Didion
from Journal
87(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journal
90(2)
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln
92(2)
Walt Whitman
A Visit to Grosse Isle
94(4)
Susanna Moodie
from Journal of a Solitude
98(6)
May Sarton
Selections from the Allen Notebooks
104(3)
Woody Allen
PEOPLE, PLACES
George Washington
107(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
110(3)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yeager
113(10)
Tom Wolfe
The Case of Harry Houdini
123(11)
Daniel Mark Epstein
My Father: Leslie Stephen
134(4)
Virginia Woolf
Under the Influence
138(11)
Scott Russell Sanders
Terwilliger Bunts One
149(5)
Annie Dillard
For My American Family: A Belated Tribute to a Legacy of Gifted Intelligence and Guts
154(4)
June Jordan
More Room
158(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
True North
162(10)
Margaret Atwood
The Holy Use of Gossip
172(5)
Kathleen Norris
The Way to Rainy Mountain
177(4)
N. Scott Momaday
Club Denali
181(12)
Jon Krakauer
The Temple of Hygiene
193(5)
Charlotte Gray
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China
198(8)
Fred Strebeigh
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America
206(12)
David Guterson
HUMAN NATURE
Thinking as a Hobby
218(5)
William Golding
The Eureka Phenomenon
223(9)
Isaac Asimov
The Reach of Imagination
232(8)
Jacob Bronowski
Homo Virtualis
240(10)
Sven Birkerts
Observation
250(1)
Henry David Thoreau
Being a Man
251(2)
Paul Theroux
Looking at Women
253(10)
Scott Russell Sanders
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide
263(3)
Anna Quindlen
What Is a Homosexual?
266(4)
Andrew Sullivan
A Bachelor's Complain of the Behaviour of Married People
270(5)
Charles Lamb
Gun Crazy
275(3)
Dorothy Allison
The Sports Taboo
278(8)
Malcom Gladwell
On the Fear of Death
286(6)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our Allotted Lifetimes
292(5)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Strangled Heart
297(7)
Sherwin B. Nuland
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Is America Falling Apart?
304(6)
Anthony Burgess
The Contagion of Innocence
310(8)
Pico Iyer
Hunger
318(4)
Maggie Helwig
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!
322(6)
John McMurtry
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
328(6)
Jessica Mitford
In the Kitchen
334(6)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Light-bulb Jokes: Charting an Era
340(3)
Daniel Harris
On Noise
343(4)
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Alice Tax
347(2)
Calvin Trillin
In Harness: The Male Condition
349(5)
Herb Goldberg
Motherhood: Who Needs It?
354(9)
Betty Rollin
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life
363(5)
Gloria Steinem
Not in My Backyard
368(7)
Vanessa Ochs
Stranger in the Village
375(9)
James Baldwin
Black Men and Public Space
384(3)
Brent Staples
The Recoloring of Campus Life
387(11)
Shelby Steele
Who Shot Johnny?
398(4)
Debra Dickerson
PROSE FORMS: OP-EDS 402(346)
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns
404(1)
Molly Ivins
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's
405(3)
Brent Staples
Portrait of the Artist as a Focus Group
408(2)
Michiko Kakutani
Evan's Two Moms
410(2)
Anna Quindlen
American Fat
412(3)
Russell Baker
Physician-Assisted Suicide
414(1)
Last Rights
415(2)
Michael J. Sandel
Feed the Face
417(3)
Michael Walzer
A Crime of Compassion
420(3)
Barbara Huttmann
EDUCATION
Clamorous to Learn
423(5)
Eudora Welty
Learning to Read
428(4)
Frederick Douglass
Books Oft Have Such a Charm
432(4)
William J. Scheick
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
436(8)
John Holt
From the Best of Japanese Families
444(9)
Cathy Davidson
America Skips School
453(10)
Benjamin R. Barber
College Is a Waste of Time and Money
463(8)
Caroline Bird
University Days
471(4)
James Thurber
College Pressures
475(7)
William Zinsser
Taking Women Students Seriously
482(6)
Adrienne Rich
To Be a Woman and a Scholar
488(6)
Dorothy Gies McGuigan
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay
494(11)
Wayne C. Booth
Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational Epistemology
505(10)
William G. Perry Jr.
The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline
515(10)
Alfred North Whitehead
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
``Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?''
525(2)
Gloria Naylor
Tongue-Tied
527(4)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Aria
531(6)
Richard Rodriguez
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
537(6)
Gloria Anzaldua
Playing the Dozens
543(2)
John Tierney
Conversational Styles
545(5)
Deborah Tannen
Who's in Charge of the English Language?
550(6)
Casey Miller
Kate Swift
The Death of the Profane: A Commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing
556(6)
Patricia J. Williams
How to Write a Letter Postcards
562(4)
Garrison Keillor
Notes on Punctuation
566(2)
Lewis Thomas
The Nature of Symbolic Language
568(7)
Erich Fromm
Politics and the English Language
575(10)
George Orwell
AN ALBUM OF STYLES
Of Youth and Age
585(1)
Francis Bacon
No Man Is an Island
586(1)
John Donne
The Pyramids
587(1)
Samuel Johnson
The Watch and the Watch-maker
588(1)
Adam Smith
Knowledge and Virtue
589(1)
John Henry Newman
The Gettysburg Address
589(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Farewell to Arms
590(1)
Ernest Hemingway
What the Novelist Gives Us
590(2)
Virginia Woolf
Progress and Change
592(1)
E.B. White
Nobel Prize Award Speech
592(1)
William Faulkner
A Dog's Eye View of Man
593(1)
James Thurber
Beer Can
594(1)
John Updike
The Rivermen
595(1)
Joseph Mitchell
The Ugly Tourist
595(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Tides
598(7)
Rachel Carson
Spring
605(8)
Gretel Ehrlich
The Serpents of Paradise
613(5)
Edward Abbey
Very Like a Whale
618(4)
Robert Finch
Spineless Wonders: Leapers
622(8)
Richard Conniff
The Spider and the Wasp
630(4)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
The Abstractions of Beasts
634(7)
Carl Sagan
Letter to President Pierce, 1855
641(1)
Chief Seattle
Forever Virgin: The American View of America
642(9)
Noel Perrin
The Trouble with Wilderness
651(4)
William Cronon
The Most Dangerous predator
655(8)
Joseph Wood Krutch
The Clan of One-Breasted Women
663(7)
Terry Tempest Williams
ETHICS
Letter to His Son
670(3)
Lord Chesterfield
Advice to Youth
673(3)
Samuel L. Clemens
What You See Is the Real You
676(1)
Willard Gaylin
In Defense of Prejudice
677(9)
Jonathan Rauch
Purloined Letters
686(8)
James R. Kincaid
The Case for Torture
694(2)
Michael Levin
The Case for Animal Rights
696(11)
Tom Regan
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
707(9)
Carl Cohen
The Media and the Ethics of Cloning
716(4)
Leigh Turner
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story
720(7)
Sallie Tisdale
The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS
727(3)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Shatterer of Worlds
730(5)
Kildare Dobbs
Thank God for the Atom Bomb
735(13)
Paul Fussell
PROSE FORMS: APOTHEGMS 748(331)
from The Devil's Dictionary
751(2)
Ambrose Bierce
Proverbs of Hell
753(2)
William Blake
from City Aphorisms
755(1)
Mason Cooley
from Poor Richard's Almanack
756(2)
Benjamin Franklin
from Maxims
758(4)
La Rochefoucauld
HISTORY
The Battle of the Ants
762(3)
Henry David Thoreau
``This Is the End of the World'': The Black Death
765(11)
Barbara Tuchman
Cherokee Memorials
776(3)
Death of Abraham Lincoln
779(7)
Walt Whitman
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars
786(15)
H. Bruce Franklin
Denmark and the Jews
801(4)
Hannah Arendt
The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi
805(10)
Amitav Ghosh
The Tyranny of the Clock
815(4)
George Woodcock
Rewriting American History
819(7)
Frances FitzGerald
The Historian and His Facts
826(16)
Edward Hallett Carr
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Shooting an Elephant
842(6)
George Orwell
A Modest Proposal
848(7)
Jonathan Swift
Lotteryville, USA
855(8)
Kim Phillips-Fein
The Morals of the Prince
863(7)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence
870(4)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
874(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
877(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Second Inaugural Address
879(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy
880(2)
Carl Becker
Democracy
882(1)
E.B. White
The Tyranny of the Majority
883(4)
Lani Guinier
Letter from Birmingham Jail
887(14)
Martin Luther King Jr.
SCIENCE
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning
901(4)
Jacob Bronowski
The Route to Normal Science
905(8)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicides A Tale of Two Cities
913(14)
John Henry Sloan
Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses
927(15)
Henry Wechsler
Andrea Davenport
George Dowdall
Barbara Moeykens
Sonia Castillo
Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse
942(4)
Henry Wechsler
Charles Deutsch
George Dowdall
Why the Reckless Survive
946(9)
Melvin Konner
The Light of Common Day
955(7)
Arthur C. Clarke
Little Things Can Mean a Lot
962(6)
Henry Petroski
Virtual Students, Digital Classroom
968(7)
Neil Postman
Krakatau
975(7)
Edward O. Wilson
Darwin's Middle Road
982(7)
Stephen Jay Gould
Women in Science: A Social Analysis
989(9)
Evelyn Fox Keller
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
One Writer's Beginnings
998(6)
Endora Welty
Good Readers and Good Writers
1004(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
Northeast Direct
1009(3)
Dagoberto Gilb
The Motive for Metaphor
1012(9)
Northrop Frye
Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue
1021(8)
Robert Frost
Does a Literary Canon Matter?
1029(7)
Katha Pollitt
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
1036(13)
Adrienne Rich
In Search of a Room of One's Own
1049(10)
Virginia Woolf
A Century of Cinema
1059(5)
Susan Sontag
Going to the Movies
1064(3)
Susan Allen Toth
The Tyranny of the Visual
1067(7)
Michael J. Arlen
How We Listen
1074(5)
Aaron Copland
PROSE FORMS: PARABLES 1079(98)
The Frogs Desiring a King
1081(1)
Aesop
The Allegory of the Cave
1081(4)
Plato
Parables of the Kingdom
1085(3)
Jesus
Zen Parables
1088(1)
The Spider and the Bee
1089(2)
Jonathan Swift
The War Prayer
1091(3)
Samuel L. Clemens
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Salvation
1094(2)
Langston Hughes
First Communion
1096(13)
Edward Rivera
Genesis, Chapter 22---A Respectful Dissent
1109(2)
Mordecai Rosenfeld
The Owl Who Was God
1111(1)
James Thurber
The Gods Are Anxious
1112(2)
Louis Menand
Mythology
1114(5)
Robert Graves
The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity
1119(13)
Martha Nussbaum
The Riddle of Inequality
1132(6)
Paul Tillich
The Death of the Moth
1138(2)
Virginia Woolf
Sight into Insight
1140(11)
Annie Dillard
Brightness Visible
1151(8)
Edward Hoagland
The Mystery of Zen
1159(9)
Gilbert Highet
Existentialism
1168(9)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Authors 1177(27)
Permissions Acknowledgments 1204(7)
Index 1211

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