Major Modern Essayists

by Muller, Gilbert H.; Crooks, Alan F.

• ISBN13: 9780134979830
• ISBN10: 0134979834
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-07
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Freshman Composition; Intermediate or Advanced Composition. This essay reader provides in-depth introductions to fifteen of this century's most distinctive writers of nonfiction prose in the English language. The collection is arranged chronologicallyfrom Virginia Woolf to Barry Lopezand includes authors from the United States and Great Britain. A final section of essays offers a single selection by each of ten outstanding writers from around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Virginia Woolf	1	(18)
Professions for Women	4	(5)
Leslie Stephen	9	(6)
The Death of the Moth	15	(4)
E. B. White	19	(36)
Farewell, My Lovely!	22	(7)
Walden	29	(6)
Education	35	(4)
Once More to the Lake	39	(6)
The Ring of Time	45	(10)
George Orwell	55	(44)
A Hanging	57	(5)
Shooting an Elephant	62	(7)
Politics and the English Language	69	(12)
Antisemitism in Britain	81	(9)
Why I Write	90	(9)
Lewis Thomas	99	(22)
Computers	101	(3)
The Tucson Zoo	104	(4)
Notes on Punctuation	108	(3)
Becoming a Doctor	111	(10)
James Baldwin	121	(34)
Autobiographical Notes	124	(5)
Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem	129	(9)
Stranger in the Village	138	(11)
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?	149	(6)
Cynthia Ozick	155	(22)
A Drugstore in Winter	157	(6)
The Seam of the Snail	163	(4)
Of Christian Heroism	167	(10)
Richard Selzer	177	(32)
Lessons from the Art	179	(7)
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold	186	(5)
A Mask on the Face of Death	191	(12)
The Pen and the Scalpel	203	(6)
Joan Didion	209	(26)
Marrying Absurd	211	(4)
On Self-Respect	215	(5)
In Bed	220	(4)
Why I Write	224	(6)
Georgia O'Keeffe	230	(5)
Margaret Atwood	235	(18)
Travels Back	237	(5)
Great Unexpectations	242	(5)
The Female Body	247	(6)
Maxine Hong Kingston	253	(22)
No Name Woman	255	(11)
High School Reunion	266	(4)
The Wild Man of the Green Swamp	270	(5)
Stephen Jay Gould	275	(24)
Women's Brains	277	(6)
Counters and Cable Cars	283	(8)
Muller Bros. Moving & Storage	291	(8)
Richard Rodriguez	299	(28)
Complexion	301	(5)
Children of a Marriage	306	(4)
Late Victorians	310	(17)
Alice Walker	327	(24)
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	329	(9)
Am I Blue?	338	(6)
Father	344	(7)
Annie Dillard	351	(30)
An American Childhood	353	(7)
Living Like Weasels	360	(4)
Singing with the Fundamentalists	364	(11)
Push It	375	(6)
Barry Lopez	381	(96)
The Stone Horse	384	(9)
The American Geographies	393	(11)
Renegotiating the Contracts	404	(8)
GLOBAL VOICES
Hugiene and Repression	412	(5)
Octavio Paz
My Father	417	(8)
Doris Lessing
Where Do Whites Fit In?	425	(6)
Nadine Gordimer
Named for Victoria, Queen of England	431	(7)
Chinua Achebe
Columbus and Crusoe	438	(4)
V.S. Naipaul
The City of Robots	442	(7)
Umberto Eco
Pom's Engagement	449	(8)
Ved Mehta
Second Wind	457	(6)
Vaclav Havel
The Kid from Kogarah	463	(7)
Clive James
Writing with the Body	470	(7)
Luisa Valenzuela
Acknowledgements	477	(4)
Rhetorical Index	481