The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose

by Linda H. Peterson; Joan E. Hartman; John C. Brereton

• ISBN13: 9780393968279
• ISBN10: 0393968278
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Table of Contents

Index of Rhetorical Modes	xi
Preface	xv
To Students: Reading and Writing with the Norton Reader	xix
PERSONAL REPORT
Graduation	1	(10)
Maya Angelou
A Victim	11	(2)
Bruno Bettelheim
On Dumpster Diving.	13	(11)
Lars Eighner
On Being a Cripple.	24	(11)
Nancy Mairs
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self.	35	(7)
Alice Walker
Memories of Christmas	42	(5)
Dylan Thomas
On Going Home.	47	(3)
Joan Didion
The Brown Wasps.	50	(6)
Loren Eiseley
Once More to the Lake.	56	(6)
E. B. White
PEOPLE, PLACES
My Father: Leslie Stephen.	62	(5)
Virginia Woolf
Under the Influence.	67	(12)
Scott Russell Sanders
Terwilliger Bunts One	79	(6)
Annie Dillard
For My American Family.	85	(5)
June Jordan
More Room.	90	(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
True North.	94	(12)
Margaret Atwood
The Way to Rainy Mountain	106	(5)
N. Scott Momaday
The Temple of Hygiene.	111	(6)
Charlotte Gray
HUMAN NATURE
Thinking as a Hobby	117	(6)
William Colding
The Eureka Phenomenon.	123	(11)
Issac Asimov
Looking at Women.	134	(11)
Scott Russell Sanders
Between the Sexes, A Great Divide.	145	(3)
Anna Quindlen
Gun Crazy	148	(3)
Dorothy Allison
Sexual Culture.	151	(9)
Edmund White
The Long Habit.	160	(5)
Lewis Thomas
On the Fear of Death.	165	(7)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our Allotted Lifetimes.	172	(5)
Stephen Jay Gould
Leave Taking	177	(4)
Rita Moir
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Is America Falling Apart?.	181	(7)
Anthony Burgess
Parental Guidance Suggested.	188	(11)
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Hunger.	199	(5)
Maggie Helwig
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!.	204	(6)
John McMurtry
Modern-Life Battle: Conquering Clutter.	210	(3)
Ada Louise Huxtable
In Harness: The Male Condition.	213	(6)
Herb Coldberg
Motherhood: Who Needs It?.	219	(11)
Betty Rollin
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life	230	(6)
Gloria Steinem
Black Men and Public Space.	236	(3)
Brent Staples
Their Malcolm, My Problem.	239	(12)
Cerald Early
EDUCATION
A Swimming Lesson.	251	(3)
Jewelle Comez
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading.	254	(9)
John Holt
By Any Other Name.	263	(5)
Santha Rama Rau
America Skips School.	268	(12)
Benjamin R. Barber
University Days.	280	(5)
James Thurber
College Pressures.	285	(7)
William Zinsser
Taking Women Students Seriously	292	(7)
Adrienne Rich
Politics, Pedagogy, and Gender	299	(14)
Jill K. Conway
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay.	313	(12)
Wayne C. Booth
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
"Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?"	325	(3)
Gloria Naylor
Tongue-Tied	328	(4)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Aria.	332	(7)
Richard Rodriguez
Who's in Charge of the English Language?	339	(6)
Casey Miller
Kate Swift
Conversational Styles.	345	(5)
Deborah Tannen
Notes on Punctuation.	350	(3)
Lewis Thomas
Politics and the English Language.	353	(12)
George Orwell
AN ALBUM OF STYLES
Of Youth and Age	365	(2)
Francis Bacon
No Man Is an Island	367	(1)
John Donne
On the Want of Money	367	(1)
William Hazlitt
The Gettysburg Address	368	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Farewell to Arms	369	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
What the Novelist Gives Us	369	(2)
Virginia Woolf
Nobel Prize Award Speech	371	(1)
William Faulkner
Coming Home	372	(1)
Wallace Stegner
The Ugly Tourist	373	(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Spring	376	(9)
Gretel Ehrlich
The Serpents of Paradise.	385	(6)
Edward Abbey
Very Like a Whale	391	(5)
Robert Finch
The Spider and the Wasp.	396	(4)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
The Abstractions of Beasts.	400	(8)
Carl Sagan
Letter to President Pierce, 1855.	408	(2)
Chief Seattle
Thinking Like a Mountain	410	(2)
Aldo Leopold
The Clan of One-Breasted Women.	412	(8)
Terry Tempest Williams
ETHICS
Advice to Youth.	420	(3)
Samuel L. Clemens
What You See Is the Real You	423	(2)
Willard Gaylin
A Crime of Compassion	425	(2)
Barbara Huttmann
The Case for Tortue	427	(2)
Michael Levin
The Case for Animal Rights.	429	(13)
Tom Regan
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story.	442	(8)
Sallie Tisdale
The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS.	450	(3)
Stephen Jay Gould
Thank God for the Atom Bomb.	453	(15)
Paul Fussell
HISTORY
The Battle of the Ants.	468	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
"This Is the End of the World": The Black Death.	471	(13)
Barbara Tuchman
Address	484	(3)
Chief Seattle
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars	487	(17)
H. Bruce Franklin
Denmark and the Jews	504	(5)
Hannah Arendt
The Tyranny of the Clock.	509	(4)
George Woodcock
Rewriting American History.	513	(8)
Frances Fitz Gerald
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Shooting an Elephant.	521	(7)
George Orwell
A Modest Proposal.	528	(8)
Jonathan Swift
The Morals of the Prince.	536	(8)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence	544	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence.	548	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments	552	(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Democracy.	554	(2)
Carl Becker
Democracy.	556	(1)
E. B. White
The Tyranny of the Majority	557	(5)
Lani Guinier
Letter from Birmingham Jail.	562	(16)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
SCIENCE
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning.	578	(4)
Jacob Bronowski
Society Writes Biology.	582	(9)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities.	591	(16)
John Henry Sloan et al.
Why the Reckless Survive.	607	(10)
Melvin Konner
The Electronic Palimpsest: Digital Documents for All Occasions	617	(8)
Brian Hayes
Little Things Can Mean a Lot	625	(7)
Henry Petroski
Darwin's Middle Road.	632	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
Women in Science: A Social Analysis.	640	(10)
Evelyn Fox Keller
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
One Writer's Beginnings.	650	(7)
Eudora Welty
Good Readers and Good Writers.	657	(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
Storytelling	662	(4)
Stephen Greenblatt
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision.	666	(13)
Adrienne Rich
In Search of a Room of One's Own	679	(12)
Virginia Woolf
Going to the Movies.	691	(3)
Susan Allen Toth
Sex Is Not a Spectator Sport.	694	(2)
S. I. Hayakawa
The Tyranny of the Visual.	696	(8)
Michael J. Arlen
How We Listen	704	(6)
Aaron Copland
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Salvation.	710	(2)
Langston Hughes
First Communion.	712	(15)
Edward Rivera
Adirondack Fundamentalism.	727	(13)
Randall Balmer
The Riddle of Inequality	740	(7)
Paul Tillich
The Allegory of the Cave	747	(3)
Plato
The Death of the Moth.	750	(3)
Virginia Woolf
The Mystery of Zen.	753	(9)
Gilbert Highet
Existentialism.	762	(11)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Authors	773	(18)
Acknowledgements	791	(6)
Index	797