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Rhetorical Contents | p. xi |
Preface | p. xvii |
Introduction: Reading in the VariousGenres | p. 1 |
Reading Essays | p. 1 |
Reading Fiction | p. 20 |
Reading Poetry | p. 22 |
Reading Drama | p. 23 |
Literary Works in Context | p. 25 |
Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts | p. 26 |
Elements of Design | p. 27 |
Reading Images as Cultural Signs | p. 30 |
Reflections on Experience | p. 33 |
NonfictionGeorge Orwell Shooting an Elephant | p. 34 |
Betty | p. 40 |
Number One! | p. 50 |
Boyhood with Gurdjieff | p. 54 |
West with the Night | p. 58 |
Just Say No to Rugs | p. 68 |
Initiated into an IbanTribe of Headhunters | p. 70 |
Rumenotomy on a Cow | p. 75 |
Fiction | |
The Pilgrimage | p. 77 |
The Fat Girl | p. 85 |
Poetry | |
Browning How Do I Love Thee? | p. 97 |
The Solitary | p. 98 |
Nikki Giovanni Nikki-Rosa | p. 99 |
Connections for Chapter 1:Reflections on Experience | p. 100 |
Memorable People and Places | p. 102 |
Nonfiction | |
Liked for Myself | p. 103 |
Antidisestablishmentarianism | p. 107 |
My Brother, Gary Gilmore | p. 114 |
Moonlit Nights of Laughter | p. 125 |
A Hole in the World | p. 130 |
Turning Point | p. 134 |
A Fitting Desire | p. 141 |
Thinking Like a Mountain | p. 143 |
Fiction | |
Carver Neighbors | p. 146 |
Cheever Reunion | p. 151 |
Poetry | |
Those Winter Sundays | p. 154 |
A Grave | p. 155 |
At the Ball Game | p. 157 |
Connections for Chapter 2:Memorable People and Places | p. 160 |
The Value of Education | p. 162 |
NonfictionFrederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write | p. 163 |
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society | p. 168 |
The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome | p. 175 |
On Becoming a Chicano | p. 181 |
Learning What Was Never Taught | p. 188 |
Nat Hentoff "Speech Codes" on the Campus | p. 197 |
Civilize Them with a Stick | p. 204 |
Judy Blume Is Harry Potter Evil? | p. 211 |
Lessons | p. 213 |
Fiction | |
The First Day | p. 219 |
Poetry | |
Workday | p. 223 |
Did I Miss Anything? | p. 225 |
Connections for Chapter 3:The Value of Education | p. 227 |
Perspectives on Language | p. 228 |
Nonfiction | |
The Day Language Came into My Life | p. 229 |
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures | p. 231 |
Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation | p. 236 |
George Lakoff Anger | p. 241 |
The Language of Clothes | p. 250 |
Mother Tongue | p. 256 |
Propaganda under a Dictatorship | p. 261 |
The Rhetoric of Advertising | p. 267 |
Fiction | |
Who's Irish? | p. 276 |
Poetry | |
Permanently | p. 285 |
Connections for Chapter 4:Perspectives on Language | p. 288 |
Everyday Matters | p. 289 |
Nonfiction | |
The Culture of Consumerism | p. 290 |
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