The Norton Reader

by Peterson, Linda H.; Brereton, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780393978070
• ISBN10: 0393978079
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

INDEX OF RHETORICAL MODES	xi
PREFACE	xv
TO STUDENTS: READING AND WRITING WITH THE NORTON READER	xix
PERSONAL REPORT
Chang-Rae Lee Coming Home Again	1	(8)
Joan Didion On Going Home	9	(3)
Wayson Choy The Ten Thousand Things	12	(6)
Maya Angelou Graduation	18	(9)
Lars Eighner On Dumpster Diving	27	(9)
Nancy Mairs On Being a Cripple	36	(10)
Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	46	(6)
E.B. White Once More to the Lake	52	(6)
PEOPLE, PLACES
Scott Russell Sanders Under the Influence	58	(11)
Annie Dillard Terwilliger Bunts One	69	(5)
Toni Morrison Strangers	74	(4)
N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain	78	(6)
Mary Austin The Land of Little Rain	84	(6)
Margaret Atwood True North	90	(11)
Kathleen Norris The Holy Use of Gossip	101	(5)
Fatema Mernissi The Harem Within	106	(5)
David Guterson Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America	111	(13)
HUMAN NATURE
William Golding Thinking as a Hobby	124	(6)
Isaac Asimov The Eureka Phenomenon	130	(9)
Harvey Mansfield The Partial Eclipse of Manliness	139	(8)
Scott Russell Sanders Looking at Women	147	(11)
Anna Quindlen Between the Sexes, a Great Divide	158	(2)
Amy Cunningham Why Women Smile	160	(5)
Andrew Sullivan What Is a Homosexual?	165	(5)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross On the Fear of Death	170	(6)
Stephen Jay Gould Our Allotted Lifetimes	176	(5)
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Anthony Burgess Is America Falling Apart?	181	(6)
Adam Goodheart 9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane	187	(7)
Jessica Mitford Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	194	(6)
John McMurtry Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!	200	(6)
Molly Ivins Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns	206	(1)
Jack Hitt The Battle of the Binge	207	(3)
Sonia Shah Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris	210	(5)
Fred Strebeigh The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China	215	(10)
Maggie Helwig Hunger	225	(4)
Brent Staples Black Men and Public Space	229	(3)
Debra Dickerson Who Shot Johnny?	232	(4)
EDUCATION
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read	236	(5)
Dionne Brand Arriving at Desire	241	(3)
Eudora Welty Clamorous to Learn	244	(5)
John Holt How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading	249	(8)
James Thurber University Days	257	(5)
William Zinsser College Pressures	262	(6)
Caroline Bird College Is a Waste of Time and Money	268	(8)
Wayne C. Booth Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay	276	(11)
Brent Staples Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's	287	(3)
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Gloria Naylor "Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?"	290	(3)
Maxine Hong Kingston Tongue-Tied	293	(4)
Richard Rodriguez Aria	297	(6)
Gloria Anzaldúa How to Tame a Wild Tongue	303	(5)
Anne Fadiman The His'er Problem	308	(4)
Garrison Keillor How to Write a Letter	312	(3)
Postcards	315	(2)
Lewis Thomas Notes on Punctuation	317	(2)
George Orwell Politics and the English Language	319	(11)
AN ALBUM OF STYLES	330	(14)
Francis Bacon Of Youth and Age	331	(2)
Ben Jonson from Timber, or Discoveries	333	(1)
John Donne No Man Is an Island	334	(1)
Samuel Johnson The Pyramids	334	(1)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letter to the Countess of Bute, Lady Montagu's Daughter	335	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft from A Vindication of the Rights of Women	337	(2)
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address	339	(1)
Ernest Hemingway from A Farewell to Arms	339	(1)
William Faulkner Nobel Prize Award Speech	340	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid The Ugly Tourist	341	(3)
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Gretel Ehrlich Spring	344	(8)
Dorothy Wordsworth The Alfoxden Journal 1798	352	(4)
John Muir A Wind-Storm in the Forests	356	(6)
Edward Abbey The Serpents of Paradise	362	(6)
Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp	368	(5)
Carl Sagan The Abstractions of Beasts	373	(7)
Chief Seattle Letter to President Pierce, 1855	380	(2)
Aldo Leopold Marshland Elegy	382	(4)
Terry Tempest Williams The Clan of One-Breasted Women	386	(8)
ETHICS
Michel de Montaigne That One Man's Profit Is Another's Loss	394	(1)
Mark Twain Advice to Youth	395	(3)
Jonathan Rauch In Defense of Prejudice	398	(9)
Michael Levin The Case for Torture	407	(2)
Tom Regan The Case for Animal Rights	409	(11)
Aldo Leopold The Land Ethic	420	(6)
Sallie Tisdale We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story	426	(7)
Stephen Jay Gould The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS	433	(4)
Paul Fussell Thank God for the Atom Bomb	437	(13)
HISTORY
Henry David Thoreau The Battle of the Ants	450	(3)
Barbara Tuchman "This Is the End of the World": The Black Death	453	(13)
Cherokee Memorials	466	(3)
Walt Whitman Death of Abraham Lincoln	469	(8)
Hannah Arendt Denmark and the Jews	477	(4)
Philip Gourevitch After the Genocide	481	(7)
David McCullough Recommended Itinerary	488	(5)
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
George Orwell Shooting an Elephant	493	(6)
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal	499	(7)
Niccolò Machiavelli The Morals of the Prince	506	(7)
Thomas Jefferson and Others The Declaration of Independence	513	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	516	(2)
Carl Becker Democracy	518	(2)
E.B. White Democracy	520	(1)
Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail	521	(14)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Jacob Bronowski The Nature of Scientific Reasoning	535	(4)
Steven Weinberg Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?	539	(12)
Henry Wechsler, Andrea Davenport, George Dowdall, Barbara Moeykens, and Sonia Castillo Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses	551	(15)
Henry Wechsler, Charles Deutsch, and George Dowdall Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse	566	(5)
John Hockenberry The Next Brainiacs	571	(13)
Melvin Konner Why the Reckless Survive	584	(8)
Neil Postman Virtual Students, Digital Classroom	592	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould Darwin's Middle Road	600	(7)
LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND MEDIA
Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings	607	(6)
Vladimir Nabokov Good Readers and Good Writers	613	(5)
Katha Pollitt Does a Literary Canon Matter?	618	(7)
Virginia Woolf In Search of a Room of One's Own	625	(10)
Susan Sontag A Century of Cinema	635	(7)
Susan Allen Toth Going to the Movies	642	(3)
John Updike Little Lightnings	645	(2)
Moving Along	647	(3)
Aaron Copland How We Listen	650	(6)
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Langston Hughes Salvation	656	(2)
Edward Rivera First Communion	658	(13)
Plato The Allegory of the Cave	671	(3)
Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	674	(9)
Martha Nussbaum The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity	683	(14)
Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth	697	(3)
Annie Dillard Sight into Insight	700	(10)
Gilbert Highet The Mystery of Zen	710	(9)
Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism	719	(10)
AUTHORS	729	(18)
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	747	(6)
INDEX	753