The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose,9780393968279

The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose

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Edition: 9th
ISBN13: 9780393968279
ISBN10: 0393968278
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Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Index of Rhetorical Modes xi
Preface xv
To Students: Reading and Writing with the Norton Reader xix
PERSONAL REPORT
Graduation
1(10)
Maya Angelou
A Victim
11(2)
Bruno Bettelheim
On Dumpster Diving.
13(11)
Lars Eighner
On Being a Cripple.
24(11)
Nancy Mairs
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self.
35(7)
Alice Walker
Memories of Christmas
42(5)
Dylan Thomas
On Going Home.
47(3)
Joan Didion
The Brown Wasps.
50(6)
Loren Eiseley
Once More to the Lake.
56(6)
E. B. White
PEOPLE, PLACES
My Father: Leslie Stephen.
62(5)
Virginia Woolf
Under the Influence.
67(12)
Scott Russell Sanders
Terwilliger Bunts One
79(6)
Annie Dillard
For My American Family.
85(5)
June Jordan
More Room.
90(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
True North.
94(12)
Margaret Atwood
The Way to Rainy Mountain
106(5)
N. Scott Momaday
The Temple of Hygiene.
111(6)
Charlotte Gray
HUMAN NATURE
Thinking as a Hobby
117(6)
William Colding
The Eureka Phenomenon.
123(11)
Issac Asimov
Looking at Women.
134(11)
Scott Russell Sanders
Between the Sexes, A Great Divide.
145(3)
Anna Quindlen
Gun Crazy
148(3)
Dorothy Allison
Sexual Culture.
151(9)
Edmund White
The Long Habit.
160(5)
Lewis Thomas
On the Fear of Death.
165(7)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our Allotted Lifetimes.
172(5)
Stephen Jay Gould
Leave Taking
177(4)
Rita Moir
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Is America Falling Apart?.
181(7)
Anthony Burgess
Parental Guidance Suggested.
188(11)
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Hunger.
199(5)
Maggie Helwig
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!.
204(6)
John McMurtry
Modern-Life Battle: Conquering Clutter.
210(3)
Ada Louise Huxtable
In Harness: The Male Condition.
213(6)
Herb Coldberg
Motherhood: Who Needs It?.
219(11)
Betty Rollin
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life
230(6)
Gloria Steinem
Black Men and Public Space.
236(3)
Brent Staples
Their Malcolm, My Problem.
239(12)
Cerald Early
EDUCATION
A Swimming Lesson.
251(3)
Jewelle Comez
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading.
254(9)
John Holt
By Any Other Name.
263(5)
Santha Rama Rau
America Skips School.
268(12)
Benjamin R. Barber
University Days.
280(5)
James Thurber
College Pressures.
285(7)
William Zinsser
Taking Women Students Seriously
292(7)
Adrienne Rich
Politics, Pedagogy, and Gender
299(14)
Jill K. Conway
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay.
313(12)
Wayne C. Booth
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
"Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?"
325(3)
Gloria Naylor
Tongue-Tied
328(4)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Aria.
332(7)
Richard Rodriguez
Who's in Charge of the English Language?
339(6)
Casey Miller
Kate Swift
Conversational Styles.
345(5)
Deborah Tannen
Notes on Punctuation.
350(3)
Lewis Thomas
Politics and the English Language.
353(12)
George Orwell
AN ALBUM OF STYLES
Of Youth and Age
365(2)
Francis Bacon
No Man Is an Island
367(1)
John Donne
On the Want of Money
367(1)
William Hazlitt
The Gettysburg Address
368(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Farewell to Arms
369(1)
Ernest Hemingway
What the Novelist Gives Us
369(2)
Virginia Woolf
Nobel Prize Award Speech
371(1)
William Faulkner
Coming Home
372(1)
Wallace Stegner
The Ugly Tourist
373(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Spring
376(9)
Gretel Ehrlich
The Serpents of Paradise.
385(6)
Edward Abbey
Very Like a Whale
391(5)
Robert Finch
The Spider and the Wasp.
396(4)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
The Abstractions of Beasts.
400(8)
Carl Sagan
Letter to President Pierce, 1855.
408(2)
Chief Seattle
Thinking Like a Mountain
410(2)
Aldo Leopold
The Clan of One-Breasted Women.
412(8)
Terry Tempest Williams
ETHICS
Advice to Youth.
420(3)
Samuel L. Clemens
What You See Is the Real You
423(2)
Willard Gaylin
A Crime of Compassion
425(2)
Barbara Huttmann
The Case for Tortue
427(2)
Michael Levin
The Case for Animal Rights.
429(13)
Tom Regan
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story.
442(8)
Sallie Tisdale
The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS.
450(3)
Stephen Jay Gould
Thank God for the Atom Bomb.
453(15)
Paul Fussell
HISTORY
The Battle of the Ants.
468(3)
Henry David Thoreau
"This Is the End of the World": The Black Death.
471(13)
Barbara Tuchman
Address
484(3)
Chief Seattle
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars
487(17)
H. Bruce Franklin
Denmark and the Jews
504(5)
Hannah Arendt
The Tyranny of the Clock.
509(4)
George Woodcock
Rewriting American History.
513(8)
Frances Fitz Gerald
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Shooting an Elephant.
521(7)
George Orwell
A Modest Proposal.
528(8)
Jonathan Swift
The Morals of the Prince.
536(8)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence
544(4)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence.
548(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments
552(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Democracy.
554(2)
Carl Becker
Democracy.
556(1)
E. B. White
The Tyranny of the Majority
557(5)
Lani Guinier
Letter from Birmingham Jail.
562(16)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
SCIENCE
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning.
578(4)
Jacob Bronowski
Society Writes Biology.
582(9)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities.
591(16)
John Henry Sloan et al.
Why the Reckless Survive.
607(10)
Melvin Konner
The Electronic Palimpsest: Digital Documents for All Occasions
617(8)
Brian Hayes
Little Things Can Mean a Lot
625(7)
Henry Petroski
Darwin's Middle Road.
632(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
Women in Science: A Social Analysis.
640(10)
Evelyn Fox Keller
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
One Writer's Beginnings.
650(7)
Eudora Welty
Good Readers and Good Writers.
657(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
Storytelling
662(4)
Stephen Greenblatt
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision.
666(13)
Adrienne Rich
In Search of a Room of One's Own
679(12)
Virginia Woolf
Going to the Movies.
691(3)
Susan Allen Toth
Sex Is Not a Spectator Sport.
694(2)
S. I. Hayakawa
The Tyranny of the Visual.
696(8)
Michael J. Arlen
How We Listen
704(6)
Aaron Copland
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Salvation.
710(2)
Langston Hughes
First Communion.
712(15)
Edward Rivera
Adirondack Fundamentalism.
727(13)
Randall Balmer
The Riddle of Inequality
740(7)
Paul Tillich
The Allegory of the Cave
747(3)
Plato
The Death of the Moth.
750(3)
Virginia Woolf
The Mystery of Zen.
753(9)
Gilbert Highet
Existentialism.
762(11)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Authors 773(18)
Acknowledgements 791(6)
Index 797

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