The Norton Reader,9780393978872

The Norton Reader

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Edition: 11th
ISBN13: 9780393978872
ISBN10: 0393978877
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Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

With a wide variety of genres, authors, subjects, a nd styles, The Norton Reader offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays available in one volume. Fifty-four new essays maintain the Reader's long-standing balance of classic and contemporary, canonical and lesser-known selections. The Eleventh Edition also includes important new coverage of visual and spoken textsover fifty photographs, paintings, drawings, and other images that were originally published with the essays, as well as a new prose form chapter on the spoken word. Available in this Shorter Edition, with fourteen thematic chapte rs, The Norton Reader has been carefully designed to support a wide range of teaching styles and situations.

Table of Contents

Index of Rhetorical Modes xiii
Preface xix
To Students: Reading And Writing With The Norton Reader xxiii
PERSONAL REPORT
Coming Home Again
1(8)
Chang-Rae Lee
On Going Home
9(3)
Joan Didion
The Ten Thousand Things
12(6)
Wayson Choy
The Town Dump
18(4)
Wallace Stegner
On Dumpster Diving
22(10)
Lars Eighner
Graduation
32(9)
Maya Angelou
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
41(4)
Zora Neale Hurston
Hoop Roots
45(11)
John Edgar Wideman
A Victim
56(2)
Bruno Bettelheim
On Being a Cripple
58(10)
Nancy Mairs
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
68(6)
Alice Walker
The Brown Wasps
74(6)
Loren Eiseley
The Guardian Angel
80(2)
Gary Soto
Once More to the Lake
82(6)
E. B. White
PROSE FORMS: JOURNALS
88(299)
On Keeping a Notebook
90(6)
Joan Didion
The Alfoxden Journal 1798
96(3)
Dorothy Wordsworth
from Journals
99(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journal
102(2)
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln
104(3)
Walt Whitman
from Journal of a Solitude
107(6)
May Sarton
Selections from the Allen Notebooks
113(3)
Woody Allen
PEOPLE, PLACES
George Washington
116(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
119(4)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yeager
123(9)
Tom Wolfe
Strangers
132(4)
Toni Morrison
My Father: Leslie Stephen
136(4)
Virginia Woolf
Under the Influence
140(11)
Scott Russell Sanders
Terwilliger Bunts One
151(5)
Annie Dillard
Sowers and Reapers
156(6)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Harem Within
162(5)
Fatema Mernissi
More Room
167(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
True North
171(10)
Margaret Atwood
The Holy Use of Gossip
181(5)
Kathleen Norris
The Land of Little Rain
186(6)
Mary Austin
The Way to Rainy Mountain
192(6)
N. Scott Momaday
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America
198(12)
David Guterson
HUMAN NATURE
The Reach of Imagination
210(7)
Jacob Bronowski
Thinking as a Hobby
217(6)
William Golding
The Eureka Phenomenon
223(9)
Isaac Asimov
Observation
232(1)
Henry David Thoreau
Being a Man
233(3)
Paul Theroux
The Partial Eclipse of Manliness
236(8)
Harvey Mansfield
Looking at Women
244(10)
Scott Russell Sanders
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide
254(2)
Anna Quindlen
What Is a Homosexual?
256(5)
Andrew Sullivan
Why Women Smile
261(5)
Amy Cunningham
The Sports Taboo
266(8)
Malcolm Gladwell
On the Fear of Death
274(6)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our Allotted Lifetimes
280(6)
Stephen Jay Gould
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Is America Falling Apart?
286(6)
Anthony Burgess
9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane
292(7)
Adam Goodheart
In the Kitchen
299(5)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris
304(5)
Sonia Shah
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!
309(5)
John McMurtry
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
314(7)
Jessica Mitford
Weekend
321(4)
Witold Rybczynski
Toys
325(2)
Roland Barthes
Light-Bulb Jokes: Charting an Era
327(3)
Daniel Harris
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China
330(11)
Fred Strebeigh
Motherhood: Who Needs It?
341(9)
Betty Rollin
Hunger
350(4)
Maggie Helwig
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life
354(6)
Gloria Steinem
Stranger in the Village
360(9)
James Baldwin
Black Men and Public Space
369(3)
Brent Staples
The Recoloring of Campus Life
372(11)
Shelby Steele
Who Shot Johnny?
383(4)
Debra Dickerson
PROSE FORMS: OP-EDS
387(9)
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns
389(1)
Molly Ivins
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's
390(2)
Brent Staples
Evan's Two Moms
392(2)
Anna Quindlen
American Fat
394(2)
Russell Baker
BINGE DRINKING
396(155)
Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse
397(4)
Henry Wechsler
Charles Deutsch
George Dowdall
The Battle of the Binge
401(3)
Jack Hitt
Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a ``Community of Learning''
404(4)
Kenneth A. Bruffee
EDUCATION
Learning to Read
408(5)
Frederick Douglass
Clamorous to Learn
413(5)
Endora Welty
Arriving at Desire
418(2)
Dionne Brand
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
420(9)
John Holt
College Is a Waste of Time and Money
429(8)
Caroline Bird
University Days
437(5)
James Thurber
College Pressures
442(6)
William Zinsser
Taking Women Students Seriously
448(6)
Adrienne Rich
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay
454(11)
Wayne C. Booth
Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational Epistemology
465(10)
William G. Perry Jr.
The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline
475(10)
Alfred North Whitehead
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
``Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?''
485(2)
Gloria Naylor
Tongue-Tied
487(5)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Aria
492(6)
Richard Rodriguez
Words
498(12)
Maria Laurino
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
510(6)
Gloria Anzaldua
Playing the Dozens
516(2)
John Tierney
The His'er Problem
518(4)
Anne Fadiman
How to Write a Letter
522(3)
Garrison Keillor
Postcards
525(2)
Notes on Punctuation
527(2)
Lewis Thomas
Period Styles: A Punctuated History
529(5)
Ellen Lupton
J. Abbott Miller
The Nature of Symbolic Language
534(6)
Erich Fromm
Politics and the English Language
540(11)
George Orwell
AN ALBUM OF STYLES
551(186)
Of Youth and Age
552(2)
Francis Bacon
from Timber, or Discoveries
554(1)
Ben Jonson
No Man Is an Island
555(1)
John Donne
The Pyramids
555(1)
Samuel Johnson
The Watch and the Watch-Maker
556(1)
Adam Smith
Letter to the Countess of Bute, Lady Montagu's Daughter
557(2)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
from A Vindication of the Rights of Women
559(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Knowledge and Virtue
561(1)
John Henry Newman
The Gettysburg Address
561(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Farewell to Arms
562(1)
Ernest Hemingway
Progress and Change
562(1)
E. B. White
Nobel Prize Award Speech
563(1)
William Faulkner
Beer Can
564(1)
John Updike
The Ugly Tourist
565(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Tides
568(7)
Rachel Carson
Spring
575(8)
Gretel Ehrlich
A Wind-Storm in the Forests
583(6)
John Muir
The Serpents of Paradise
589(6)
Edward Abbey
The Spider and the Wasp
595(5)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
The Watcher Watched
600(4)
Farley Mowat
The Abstractions of Beasts
604(7)
Carl Sagan
Letter to President Pierce, 1855
611(2)
Chief Seattle
Marshland Elegy
613(4)
Aldo Leopold
The Trouble with Wilderness
617(4)
William Cronon
Against Nature
621(7)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Most Dangerous Predator
628(8)
Joseph Wood Krutch
The Clan of One-Breasted Women
636(7)
Terry Tempest Williams
ETHICS
That One Man's Profit Is Another's Loss
643(1)
Michel de Montaigne
Letter to His Son
644(3)
Lord Chesterfield
Advice to Youth
647(3)
Mark Twain
Trust and Its Vulnerabilities
650(16)
Annette C. Baier
In Defense of Prejudice
666(9)
Jonathan Rauch
The Case for Torture
675(2)
Michael Levin
The Case for Animal Rights
677(10)
Tom Regan
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
687(9)
Carl Cohen
The Boston Photographs
696(6)
Nora Ephron
The Media and the Ethics of Cloning
702(5)
Leigh Turner
The Land Ethic
707(6)
Aldo Leopold
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story
713(7)
Sallie Tisdale
The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS
720(4)
Stephen Jay Gould
Thank God for the Atom Bomb
724(13)
Paul Fussell
PROSE FORMS: MAXIMS AND MORALS
737(166)
from Poor Richard's Almanack
739(2)
Benjamin Franklin
from Maxims
741(3)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Proverbs of Hell
744(2)
William Blake
from The Devil's Dictionary
746(3)
Ambrose Bierce
Truisms
749(4)
Jenny Holzer
Pillars of Wisdom: The Well-formed Web Site
753(1)
Stuart Moulthrop
Internet Advice: Understanding Scientific Discourse
754(2)
Anonymous
HISTORY
The Battle of the Ants
756(3)
Henry David Thoreau
``This Is the End of the World'': The Black Death
759(13)
Barbara Tuchman
Cherokee Memorials
772(3)
Death of Abraham Lincoln
775(7)
Walt Whitman
22,000 Seedlings
782(10)
Paul Collins
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars
792(15)
H. Bruce Franklin
Denmark and the Jews
807(5)
Hannah Arendt
After the Genocide
812(6)
Philip Gourevitch
The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi
818(10)
Amitav Ghosh
Rewriting American History
828(6)
Frances FitzGerald
The Historian and His Facts
834(17)
Edward Hallett Carr
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Shooting an Elephant
851(6)
George Orwell
A Modest Proposal
857(7)
Jonathan Swift
The Morals of the Prince
864(7)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence
871(3)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
874(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
878(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Second Inaugural Address
880(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy
882(2)
Carl Becker
Democracy
884(1)
E. B. White
The Tyranny of the Majority
885(4)
Lani Guinier
Letter from Birmingham Jail
889(14)
Martin Luther King Jr.
PROSE FORMS: SPOKEN WORDS
903(207)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
905(1)
Queen Elizabeth I
Inaugural Address
906(3)
John F. Kennedy
I Have a Dream
909(3)
Martin Luther King Jr.
No Compromise with Slavery
912(3)
William Lloyd Garrison
Recommended Itinerary
915(4)
David McCullough
Surprised by Death
919(5)
James Van Tholen
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning
924(4)
Jacob Bronowski
The Route to Normal Science
928(8)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?
936(12)
Steven Weinberg
Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses
948(15)
Henry Wechsler
Andrea Davenport
George Dowdall
Barbara Moeykens
Sonia Castillo
Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?: The Problem of Animal Consciousness
963(8)
Matt Cartmill
Pesticides, Animals, and Humans
971(11)
Sandra Steingraber
The Next Brainiacs
982(13)
John Hockenberry
Why the Reckless Survive
995(9)
Melvin Konner
Virtual Students, Digital Classroom
1004(7)
Neil Postman
Darwin's Middle Road
1011(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND MEDIA
One Writer's Beginnings
1019(6)
Eudora Welty
Good Readers and Good Writers
1025(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
The Motive for Metaphor
1030(8)
Northrop Frye
Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue
1038(9)
Robert Frost
Does a Literary Canon Matter?
1047(7)
Katha Pollitt
Decolonizing the Mind
1054(8)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision
1062(12)
Adrienne Rich
In Search of a Room of One's Own
1074(11)
Virginia Woolf
Little Lightnings
1085(2)
John Updike
Moving Along
1087(3)
Sontag A Century of Cinema
1090(7)
Susan
Going to the Movies
1097(3)
Susan Allen Toth
Text and Act
1100(5)
Richard Taruskin
How We Listen
1105(5)
Aaron Copland
PROSE FORMS: FABLES AND PARABLES
1110(105)
The Frogs Desiring a King
1112(1)
Aesop
The Allegory of the Cave
1112(4)
Plato
Parables of the Kingdom
1116(3)
Jesus
Zen Parables
1119(1)
The Spider and the Bee
1120(2)
Jonathan Swift
The War Prayer
1122(3)
Mark Twain
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Salvation
1125(2)
Langston Hughes
First Communion
1127(13)
Edward Rivera
The Owl Who Was God
1140(1)
James Thurber
Humor and Faith
1141(9)
Reinhold Niebuhr
Mythology
1150(5)
Robert Graves
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
1155(9)
Henry David Thoreau
The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity
1164(14)
Martha Nussbaum
The Death of the Moth
1178(2)
Virginia Woolf
Sight into Insight
1180(11)
Annie Dillard
The Mystery of Zen
1191(8)
Gilbert Highet
Existentialism
1199(9)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Reading Philosophy at Night
1208(7)
Charles Simic
Authors 1215(30)
Permissions Acknowledgments 1245(8)
Index 1253

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