The Norton Reader

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

• ISBN13: 9780393978872
• ISBN10: 0393978877
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

With a wide variety of genres, authors, subjects, a nd styles, The Norton Reader offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays available in one volume. Fifty-four new essays maintain the Reader's long-standing balance of classic and contemporary, canonical and lesser-known selections. The Eleventh Edition also includes important new coverage of visual and spoken textsover fifty photographs, paintings, drawings, and other images that were originally published with the essays, as well as a new prose form chapter on the spoken word. Available in this Shorter Edition, with fourteen thematic chapte rs, The Norton Reader has been carefully designed to support a wide range of teaching styles and situations.

Table of Contents

Index of Rhetorical Modes	xiii
Preface	xix
To Students: Reading And Writing With The Norton Reader	xxiii
PERSONAL REPORT
Coming Home Again	1	(8)
Chang-Rae Lee
On Going Home	9	(3)
Joan Didion
The Ten Thousand Things	12	(6)
Wayson Choy
The Town Dump	18	(4)
Wallace Stegner
On Dumpster Diving	22	(10)
Lars Eighner
Graduation	32	(9)
Maya Angelou
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	41	(4)
Zora Neale Hurston
Hoop Roots	45	(11)
John Edgar Wideman
A Victim	56	(2)
Bruno Bettelheim
On Being a Cripple	58	(10)
Nancy Mairs
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	68	(6)
Alice Walker
The Brown Wasps	74	(6)
Loren Eiseley
The Guardian Angel	80	(2)
Gary Soto
Once More to the Lake	82	(6)
E. B. White
PROSE FORMS: JOURNALS	88	(299)
On Keeping a Notebook	90	(6)
Joan Didion
The Alfoxden Journal 1798	96	(3)
Dorothy Wordsworth
from Journals	99	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journal	102	(2)
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln	104	(3)
Walt Whitman
from Journal of a Solitude	107	(6)
May Sarton
Selections from the Allen Notebooks	113	(3)
Woody Allen
PEOPLE, PLACES
George Washington	116	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln	119	(4)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yeager	123	(9)
Tom Wolfe
Strangers	132	(4)
Toni Morrison
My Father: Leslie Stephen	136	(4)
Virginia Woolf
Under the Influence	140	(11)
Scott Russell Sanders
Terwilliger Bunts One	151	(5)
Annie Dillard
Sowers and Reapers	156	(6)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Harem Within	162	(5)
Fatema Mernissi
More Room	167	(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
True North	171	(10)
Margaret Atwood
The Holy Use of Gossip	181	(5)
Kathleen Norris
The Land of Little Rain	186	(6)
Mary Austin
The Way to Rainy Mountain	192	(6)
N. Scott Momaday
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America	198	(12)
David Guterson
HUMAN NATURE
The Reach of Imagination	210	(7)
Jacob Bronowski
Thinking as a Hobby	217	(6)
William Golding
The Eureka Phenomenon	223	(9)
Isaac Asimov
Observation	232	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
Being a Man	233	(3)
Paul Theroux
The Partial Eclipse of Manliness	236	(8)
Harvey Mansfield
Looking at Women	244	(10)
Scott Russell Sanders
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide	254	(2)
Anna Quindlen
What Is a Homosexual?	256	(5)
Andrew Sullivan
Why Women Smile	261	(5)
Amy Cunningham
The Sports Taboo	266	(8)
Malcolm Gladwell
On the Fear of Death	274	(6)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our Allotted Lifetimes	280	(6)
Stephen Jay Gould
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Is America Falling Apart?	286	(6)
Anthony Burgess
9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane	292	(7)
Adam Goodheart
In the Kitchen	299	(5)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris	304	(5)
Sonia Shah
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!	309	(5)
John McMurtry
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	314	(7)
Jessica Mitford
Weekend	321	(4)
Witold Rybczynski
Toys	325	(2)
Roland Barthes
Light-Bulb Jokes: Charting an Era	327	(3)
Daniel Harris
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China	330	(11)
Fred Strebeigh
Motherhood: Who Needs It?	341	(9)
Betty Rollin
Hunger	350	(4)
Maggie Helwig
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life	354	(6)
Gloria Steinem
Stranger in the Village	360	(9)
James Baldwin
Black Men and Public Space	369	(3)
Brent Staples
The Recoloring of Campus Life	372	(11)
Shelby Steele
Who Shot Johnny?	383	(4)
Debra Dickerson
PROSE FORMS: OP-EDS	387	(9)
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns	389	(1)
Molly Ivins
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's	390	(2)
Brent Staples
Evan's Two Moms	392	(2)
Anna Quindlen
American Fat	394	(2)
Russell Baker
BINGE DRINKING	396	(155)
Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse	397	(4)
Henry Wechsler
Charles Deutsch
George Dowdall
The Battle of the Binge	401	(3)
Jack Hitt
Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a ``Community of Learning''	404	(4)
Kenneth A. Bruffee
EDUCATION
Learning to Read	408	(5)
Frederick Douglass
Clamorous to Learn	413	(5)
Endora Welty
Arriving at Desire	418	(2)
Dionne Brand
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading	420	(9)
John Holt
College Is a Waste of Time and Money	429	(8)
Caroline Bird
University Days	437	(5)
James Thurber
College Pressures	442	(6)
William Zinsser
Taking Women Students Seriously	448	(6)
Adrienne Rich
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay	454	(11)
Wayne C. Booth
Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational Epistemology	465	(10)
William G. Perry Jr.
The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline	475	(10)
Alfred North Whitehead
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
``Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?''	485	(2)
Gloria Naylor
Tongue-Tied	487	(5)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Aria	492	(6)
Richard Rodriguez
Words	498	(12)
Maria Laurino
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	510	(6)
Gloria Anzaldua
Playing the Dozens	516	(2)
John Tierney
The His'er Problem	518	(4)
Anne Fadiman
How to Write a Letter	522	(3)
Garrison Keillor
Postcards	525	(2)
Notes on Punctuation	527	(2)
Lewis Thomas
Period Styles: A Punctuated History	529	(5)
Ellen Lupton
J. Abbott Miller
The Nature of Symbolic Language	534	(6)
Erich Fromm
Politics and the English Language	540	(11)
George Orwell
AN ALBUM OF STYLES	551	(186)
Of Youth and Age	552	(2)
Francis Bacon
from Timber, or Discoveries	554	(1)
Ben Jonson
No Man Is an Island	555	(1)
John Donne
The Pyramids	555	(1)
Samuel Johnson
The Watch and the Watch-Maker	556	(1)
Adam Smith
Letter to the Countess of Bute, Lady Montagu's Daughter	557	(2)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
from A Vindication of the Rights of Women	559	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Knowledge and Virtue	561	(1)
John Henry Newman
The Gettysburg Address	561	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Farewell to Arms	562	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
Progress and Change	562	(1)
E. B. White
Nobel Prize Award Speech	563	(1)
William Faulkner
Beer Can	564	(1)
John Updike
The Ugly Tourist	565	(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Tides	568	(7)
Rachel Carson
Spring	575	(8)
Gretel Ehrlich
A Wind-Storm in the Forests	583	(6)
John Muir
The Serpents of Paradise	589	(6)
Edward Abbey
The Spider and the Wasp	595	(5)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
The Watcher Watched	600	(4)
Farley Mowat
The Abstractions of Beasts	604	(7)
Carl Sagan
Letter to President Pierce, 1855	611	(2)
Chief Seattle
Marshland Elegy	613	(4)
Aldo Leopold
The Trouble with Wilderness	617	(4)
William Cronon
Against Nature	621	(7)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Most Dangerous Predator	628	(8)
Joseph Wood Krutch
The Clan of One-Breasted Women	636	(7)
Terry Tempest Williams
ETHICS
That One Man's Profit Is Another's Loss	643	(1)
Michel de Montaigne
Letter to His Son	644	(3)
Lord Chesterfield
Advice to Youth	647	(3)
Mark Twain
Trust and Its Vulnerabilities	650	(16)
Annette C. Baier
In Defense of Prejudice	666	(9)
Jonathan Rauch
The Case for Torture	675	(2)
Michael Levin
The Case for Animal Rights	677	(10)
Tom Regan
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research	687	(9)
Carl Cohen
The Boston Photographs	696	(6)
Nora Ephron
The Media and the Ethics of Cloning	702	(5)
Leigh Turner
The Land Ethic	707	(6)
Aldo Leopold
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story	713	(7)
Sallie Tisdale
The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS	720	(4)
Stephen Jay Gould
Thank God for the Atom Bomb	724	(13)
Paul Fussell
PROSE FORMS: MAXIMS AND MORALS	737	(166)
from Poor Richard's Almanack	739	(2)
Benjamin Franklin
from Maxims	741	(3)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Proverbs of Hell	744	(2)
William Blake
from The Devil's Dictionary	746	(3)
Ambrose Bierce
Truisms	749	(4)
Jenny Holzer
Pillars of Wisdom: The Well-formed Web Site	753	(1)
Stuart Moulthrop
Internet Advice: Understanding Scientific Discourse	754	(2)
Anonymous
HISTORY
The Battle of the Ants	756	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
``This Is the End of the World'': The Black Death	759	(13)
Barbara Tuchman
Cherokee Memorials	772	(3)
Death of Abraham Lincoln	775	(7)
Walt Whitman
22,000 Seedlings	782	(10)
Paul Collins
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars	792	(15)
H. Bruce Franklin
Denmark and the Jews	807	(5)
Hannah Arendt
After the Genocide	812	(6)
Philip Gourevitch
The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi	818	(10)
Amitav Ghosh
Rewriting American History	828	(6)
Frances FitzGerald
The Historian and His Facts	834	(17)
Edward Hallett Carr
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Shooting an Elephant	851	(6)
George Orwell
A Modest Proposal	857	(7)
Jonathan Swift
The Morals of the Prince	864	(7)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence	871	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence	874	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	878	(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Second Inaugural Address	880	(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy	882	(2)
Carl Becker
Democracy	884	(1)
E. B. White
The Tyranny of the Majority	885	(4)
Lani Guinier
Letter from Birmingham Jail	889	(14)
Martin Luther King Jr.
PROSE FORMS: SPOKEN WORDS	903	(207)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury	905	(1)
Queen Elizabeth I
Inaugural Address	906	(3)
John F. Kennedy
I Have a Dream	909	(3)
Martin Luther King Jr.
No Compromise with Slavery	912	(3)
William Lloyd Garrison
Recommended Itinerary	915	(4)
David McCullough
Surprised by Death	919	(5)
James Van Tholen
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning	924	(4)
Jacob Bronowski
The Route to Normal Science	928	(8)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?	936	(12)
Steven Weinberg
Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses	948	(15)
Henry Wechsler
Andrea Davenport
George Dowdall
Barbara Moeykens
Sonia Castillo
Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?: The Problem of Animal Consciousness	963	(8)
Matt Cartmill
Pesticides, Animals, and Humans	971	(11)
Sandra Steingraber
The Next Brainiacs	982	(13)
John Hockenberry
Why the Reckless Survive	995	(9)
Melvin Konner
Virtual Students, Digital Classroom	1004	(7)
Neil Postman
Darwin's Middle Road	1011	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND MEDIA
One Writer's Beginnings	1019	(6)
Eudora Welty
Good Readers and Good Writers	1025	(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
The Motive for Metaphor	1030	(8)
Northrop Frye
Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue	1038	(9)
Robert Frost
Does a Literary Canon Matter?	1047	(7)
Katha Pollitt
Decolonizing the Mind	1054	(8)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision	1062	(12)
Adrienne Rich
In Search of a Room of One's Own	1074	(11)
Virginia Woolf
Little Lightnings	1085	(2)
John Updike
Moving Along	1087	(3)
Sontag A Century of Cinema	1090	(7)
Susan
Going to the Movies	1097	(3)
Susan Allen Toth
Text and Act	1100	(5)
Richard Taruskin
How We Listen	1105	(5)
Aaron Copland
PROSE FORMS: FABLES AND PARABLES	1110	(105)
The Frogs Desiring a King	1112	(1)
Aesop
The Allegory of the Cave	1112	(4)
Plato
Parables of the Kingdom	1116	(3)
Jesus
Zen Parables	1119	(1)
The Spider and the Bee	1120	(2)
Jonathan Swift
The War Prayer	1122	(3)
Mark Twain
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Salvation	1125	(2)
Langston Hughes
First Communion	1127	(13)
Edward Rivera
The Owl Who Was God	1140	(1)
James Thurber
Humor and Faith	1141	(9)
Reinhold Niebuhr
Mythology	1150	(5)
Robert Graves
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	1155	(9)
Henry David Thoreau
The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity	1164	(14)
Martha Nussbaum
The Death of the Moth	1178	(2)
Virginia Woolf
Sight into Insight	1180	(11)
Annie Dillard
The Mystery of Zen	1191	(8)
Gilbert Highet
Existentialism	1199	(9)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Reading Philosophy at Night	1208	(7)
Charles Simic
Authors	1215	(30)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1245	(8)
Index	1253