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The New Millennium Reader
by Hirschberg, Stuart; Hirschberg, TerryISBN13:
9780130120991
ISBN10:
0130120995
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
7/1/1999
Publisher(s):
Prentice Hall
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Summary
A thematic reader for courses in Composition and those courses that consider the essay as a form of literature. Featuring a wealth of authors and works never before anthologized, this thematic reader identifies and collects some of the most important insights, discoveries, and reflections of the past millennia as produced by its most noteworthy writers.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Reading in the Various Genres | |
| Reflections on Experience | |
| Nonfiction | |
| Number One! | |
| Boyhood with Gurdjieff | |
| West with the Night | |
| Initiated into an Iban Tribe | |
| Confessions of a Fast Woman | |
| So, This Was Adolescence | |
| The Myth of the Latin Woman | |
| Fiction | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| The Miller''s Tale | |
| Poetry | |
| The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
| Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought | |
| The Solitary | |
| Funny | |
| Influential People and Memorable Places | |
| Nonfiction | |
| Liked for Myself | |
| My Father''s Life | |
| Antidisestablishmentarianism | |
| My Brother | |
| The Taj Mahal | |
| Niagara Falls | |
| Reflections in Westminister Abbey | |
| Moonlit Nights of Laughter | |
| Fiction | |
| Reunion | |
| Looking for a Rain God | |
| Poetry | |
| The Youngest Daughter | |
| Those Winter Sundays | |
| Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | |
| The Value of Education | |
| Nonfiction | |
| Learning to Read and Write | |
| The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society | |
| Civilize Them with a Stick | |
| On Becoming a Chicano | |
| In Defense of Elitism | |
| How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students'' Research Papers | |
| Areopagitica: Defense of Books | |
| Speech Codes on Campus | |
| Fiction | |
| The School | |
| Poetry | |
| Learning to Read | |
| Workday | |
| Perspectives on Language | |
| Nonfiction | |
| Language and Thought | |
| The Day Language Came into My Life | |
| Thinking in Pictures | |
| The Language of Clothes | |
| Sex, Lies, and Conversation | |
| The Rhetoric of Advertising | |
| Propaganda under a Dictatorship | |
| Pornography | |
| Fiction | |
| What We Talk about When We Talk about Love | |
| Poetry | |
| Crow Goes Hunting | |
| Drama | |
| Words, Words, Words | |
| Issues in Popular Culture | |
| Nonfiction | |
| The Culture of Consumerism | |
| On Bad Teeth | |
| TV News as Entertainment | |
| Urban Legends “The Boyfriend''s Death,” | |
| The Flesh and the Devil | |
| Want Creation Fuels Americans'' Addictiveness | |
| The Burden of Race | |
| The Stealth Virus: AIDS & Latinos | |
| Fiction | |
| Désirée''s Baby | |
| An Old Man | |
| Poetry | |
| Barbie Doll | |
| Lisa''s Ritual, Age 10, Grace Caroline Bridges | |
| Streets of Philadelphia | |
| Drama | |
| Tea Party | |
| Our Place in Nature | |
| Nonfiction | |
| The Lowest Animal | |
| Am I Blue? | |
| A Very Warm Mountain | |
| Big Mac and the Tropical Forests | |
| How to Kill an Ocean | |
| Waking Up the Rake | |
| The Greenhouse Affect | |
| Fiction | |
| I Am a Cat | |
| A River Ran Over Me | |
| Poetry | |
| Sleeping in the Forest | |
| The Sound of the Sea | |
| History in the Making | |
| Nonfiction | |
| The Naked Source | |
| Finding the Tomb | |
| To Make Them Stand in Fear | |
| From a Native Daughter | |
| The San Francisco Earthquake | |
| A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima | |
| Fiction | |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
| Home Soil | |
| Poetry | |
| A Worker Reads History | |
| Child''s Memory | |
| Titanic | |
| The Pursuit of Justice | |
| Nonfiction | |
| Rights of Man | |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
| I Have a Dream | |
| We Have Our State | |
| At the Center of the Storm | |
| Daisy | |
| Fiction | |
| The Guest | |
| The Censors | |
| Poetry | |
| The Unknown Citizen | |
| At First I Was Given Centuries | |
| Drama | |
| Protest | |
| The Impact of Technology | |
| Nonfiction | |
| A Clone Is Born | |
| Sperm in a Jar | |
| Identical Twins Reared APart | |
| Monsters of the Brave New World | |
| How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone | |
| The Haves and the Have-Nots | |
| The Road Ahead | |
| Fiction | |
| The Enormous Radio | |
| Poetry | |
| When I Heard the Learn''d Astronomer | |
| I''m Gonna Be an Engineer | |
| The Artistic Impulse | |
| Nonfiction | |
| How to Write with Style | |
| Still Just Writing | |
| What Is Real? | |
| Alice Munro | |
| The Exorcist Massage Parlor | |
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