The New Millennium Reader

by Hirschberg, Stuart; Hirschberg, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780131918498
• ISBN10: 0131918494
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This collection encourages readers to consider a variety of works from many well-known and respected authors.Works include diaries, journals, letters, memoirs, scholarly essays, speeches, interviews, and biographies, from such genres as non-fiction, fiction, poetry and drama. Multicultural diversity is evident in the selection of readings.An excellent resource for anyone interested in a collection of the best literary works from a variety of perspectives.

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	xiii
Preface	xix
Introduction: Reading in the Various Genres	1	(27)
Reading Essays	1	(16)
Reading Fiction	17	(2)
Reading Poetry	19	(1)
Reading Drama	20	(2)
Literary Works in Context	22	(1)
Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts	23	(1)
Elements of Design	24	(1)
Reading Images as Cultural Signs	24	(4)
1 REELECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE	28	(66)
Nonfiction
Jill Nelson
Number One!	30	(3)
Fritz Peters
Boyhood with Gurdjieff	33	(3)
Beryl Markham
West with the Night	36	(9)
Marcel Proust
The Bodily Memory	45	(4)
Douchan Gersi
Initiated into an Iban Tribe	49	(4)
Annie Dillard
So, This Was Adolescence	53	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	55	(4)
Nasdijj
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams	59	(7)
Fiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper	66	(11)
Andre Dubus
The Fat Girl	77	(10)
Poetry
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30, When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought	87	(1)
Barbara Kingsolver
This House I Cannot Leave	88	(1)
Anna Kamienska
Funny	89	(2)
Sara Teasdale
The Solitary	91	(1)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Pablo Picasso's "The Dream," 1932	92	(1)
CONNECTIONS	92	(2)
2 INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE AND MEMORABLE PLACES	94	(58)
Nonfiction
Maya Angelou
Liked for Myself	96	(3)
Gayle Pemberton
Antidisestablishmentarianism	99	(6)
Mikhal Gilmore
My Brother, Gary Gilmore	105	(10)
Fatima Mernissi
Moonlit Nights of Laughter	115	(5)
Richard Keller Simon
The Shopping Mall and the Formal Garden	120	(4)
William Zinsser
Niagara Falls	124	(7)
Joseph Addison
Reflections in Westminster Abbey	131	(2)
George Carlin
A Place for Your Stuff	133	(4)
Fiction
Raymond Carver
Neighbors	137	(4)
Bessie Head
Looking for a Rain God	141	(3)
Poetry
Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter	144	(2)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays	146	(1)
William Wordsworth
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	147	(2)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Vincent Van Gogh's "Café Terrace on the Place clay Forum," 1888	149	(1)
CONNECTIONS	150	(2)
3 THE VALUE OF EDUCATION	152	(52)
Nonfiction
Frederick Douglass
Learning to Read and Write	154	(4)
Jonathan Kozol
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society	158	(6)
William A. Henry III
In Defense of Elitism	164	(5)
Richard Rodriguez
On Becoming a Chicano	169	(5)
Sabine Reichel
Learning What Was Never Taught	174	(8)
David Rothenberg
How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers	182	(3)
John Milton
Areopagitica: Defense of Books	185	(2)
Nat Hentoff
"Speech Codes" on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech	187	(5)
Judy Blume
Is Harry Potter Evil?	192	(3)
Fiction
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
A Canary's Ideas	195	(4)
Poetry
Francis E.W. Harper
Learning to Read	199
Linda Hogan
Workday	200	(2)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Jean Honoré Fragonard's "A Young Girl Reading," 1776	202	(1)
CONNECTIONS	202	(2)
4 PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE	204	(50)
Nonfiction
Helen Keller
The Day Language Came into My Life	206	(2)
Temple Grandin
Thinking in Pictures	208	(4)
Deborah Tannen
Sex, Lies, and Conversation	212	(4)
George Lakoff
Anger	216	(8)
Alison Lurie
The Language of Clothes	224	(5)
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair?	229	(6)
Aldous Huxley
Propaganda Under a Dictatorship	235	(4)
Stuart Hirschberg
The Rhetoric of Advertising	239	(7)
Fiction
Anthony Burgess
From A Clockwork Orange	246	(5)
Poetry
Ted Hughes
Crow Goes Hunting	251	(1)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Paul Gaugin's "The Market," 1892	252	(1)
CONNECTIONS	253	(1)
5 ISSUES IN POPULAR CULTURE	254	(67)
Nonfiction
Juliet B. Schor
The Culture of Consumerism	256	(8)
Philip Slater
Want-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness	264	(4)
Jan Harold Brunvand
Urban Legends: "The Boyfriend's Death"	268	(8)
Neil Postman and Steve Powers
TV News as Entertainment	276	(5)
Eric Schlosser
Kid Kustomers	281	(4)
Rosalind Coward
The Body Beautiful	285	(7)
Arthur Ashe
The Burden of Race	292	(4)
Barbara Kantrowitz
The New Face of Marriage	296	(3)
Fiction
Kate Chopin
Desiree's Baby	299	(4)
Margaret Atwood
Happy Endings	303	(3)
Poetry
Marge Piercy
Barbie Doll	306	(2)
Grace Caroline Bridges
Lisa's Ritual, Age 10	308	(1)
Bruce Springsteen
Streets of Philadelphia	309	(1)
Kelly Cherry
Alzheimer's	310	(1)
Drama
David Ives
Sure Thing	311	(8)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Grace Hartigan's "Billboard," 1957	319	(1)
CONNECTIONS	320	(1)
6 OUR PLACE IN NATURE	321	(53)
Nonfiction
Mark Twain
The Lowest Animal	324	(4)
Gunjan Sinha
You Dirty Vole	328	(5)
Richard Rhodes
Watching the Animals	333	(7)
Thor Heyerdahl
How to Kill an Ocean	340	(8)
Jared Diamond
Why Do We Smoke, Drink, and Use Dangerous Drugs?	348	(9)
Linda Hogan
Waking Up the Rake	357	(3)
Alice Walker
Am I Blue?	360	(4)
Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death	364	(5)
Poetry
Mary Oliver
Sleeping in the Forest	369	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Sound of the Sea	370	(1)
Humbert Wolfe
The Gray Squirrel	371	(1)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Claude Monet's "The Garden at Giverny," 1902	372	(1)
CONNECTIONS	372	(2)
7 HISTORY IN THE MAKING	374	(80)
Nonfiction
Herodotus
Concerning Egypt	376	(10)
Gilbert Highet
The Gettysburg Address	386	(6)
Jack London
The San Francisco Earthquake	392	(5)
Hanson W. Baldwin
R.M.S. Titanic	397	(9)
Maurizio Chierici
The Man from Hiroshima	406	(5)
Haunani-Kay Trask
From a Native Daughter	411	(8)
Stuart Hirschberg
Analyzing the Rhetoric of Nixon's "Checkers" Speech	419	(7)
Dennis Smith
Report from Ground Zero	426	(8)
Fiction
Ambrose Bierce
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	434	(7)
Irene Zabytko
Home Soil	441	(5)
Poetry
Bertolt Brecht
A Worker Reads History	446	(2)
Eleni Fourtouni
Child's Memory	448	(1)
David R. Slavitt
Titanic	449	(2)
W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming	451	(1)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Francisco de Goya's "The Third of May, 1808," 1814	452	(1)
CONNECTIONS	452	(2)
8 THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE	454	(76)
Nonfiction
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	456	(4)
Kenneth M. Stampp
To Make Them Stand in Fear	460	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream	463	(4)
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal	467	(7)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America	474	(18)
Luis Sepulveda
Daisy	492	(4)
Steven E. Barkan and Lynne L. Snowden
Defining and Countering Terrorism	496	(6)
Michael Levin
The Case for Torture	502	(2)
Fiction
Panos Ioannides
Gregory	504	(4)
Liliana Heker
The Stolen Party	508	(4)
Poetry
W.H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen	512	(2)
Margaret Atwood
At First I Was Given Centuries	514	(1)
Carolyn Forché
The Colonel	515	(2)
Drama
Susan Glaspell
Trifles	517	(11)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Ben Shahn's "Riot on Carol Street," 1944	528	(1)
CONNECTIONS	528	(2)
9 THE IMPACE OF TECHNOLOGY	530	(54)
Nonfiction
David Ewing Duncan
DNA as Destiny	532	(7)
LynNell Hancock
The Haves and the Have-Nots	539	(3)
Constance Holden
Identical Twins Reared Apart	542	(7)
Lawrence Osborne
Got Silk	549	(7)
Umberto Eco
How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone	556	(3)
Bill McKibben
It's Easy Being Green	559	(4)
Bill Gates
From The Road Ahead	563	(8)
Henry Petroski
The Pencil	571	(4)
Fiction
Chet Williamson
The Personal Touch	575	(3)
Poetry
Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	578	(1)
Peggy Seeger
I'm Gonna Be an Engineer	579	(2)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Francis Picabia's "Parade Amoureuse," 1917	581	(1)
CONNECTIONS	582	(2)
10 THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE	584	(42)
Nonfiction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
How to Write with Style	586	(4)
Fran Lebowitz
How to Tell if Your Child Is a Writer	590	(1)
Stephen King
On Writing	591	(4)
Roger Ebert
Great Movies	595	(3)
Agnes De Mille
Pavlova	598	(2)
Aaron Copland
Film Music	600	(6)
Lance Morrow
Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle	606	(2)
David Brooks
Oversimulated Suburbia	608	(6)
Fiction
Carson McCullers
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland	614	(6)
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet
The Author to Her Book	620	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant	621	(1)
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
The Sound of Silence	622	(2)
Thinking/Critically About the Image: Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss," 1907-1908	624	(1)
CONNECTIONS	624	(2)
11 MATTERS OF ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION	626	(77)
Nonfiction
Philip Wheelwright
The Meaning of Ethics	628	(6)
Marya Mannes
The Unwilled	634	(1)
Richard Selzer
What I Saw at the Abortion	635	(4)
Garrett Hardin
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor	639	(10)
Tim O'Brien
If I Die in a Combat Zone	649	(4)
Stanley Milgram
The Perils of Obedience	653	(11)
Dalai Lama
The Role of Religion in Modern Society	664	(6)
Langston Hughes
Salvation	670	(2)
Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	672	(12)
Parables
Plato
The Allegory of the Cave	684	(4)
Matthew
Parables in the New Testament	688	(4)
The Buddha
Parables of Buddha	692	(2)
Nasreddin Hodja
Islamic Folk Stories	694	(2)
Poetry
Linda Pastan
Ethics	696	(1)
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken	697	(1)
Lisel Mueller
Hope	698	(1)
Thinking Critically About the Image: Edvard Munch's "The Scream," 1893	699	(1)
CONNECTIONS	700	(3)
Glossary	703	(6)
Credits	709	(6)
Index of First Lines of Poems	715	(2)
Index of Authors and Titles	717