Ten on Ten : Major Essayists on Recurring Themes

by Robert Atwan

• ISBN13: 9780312062361
• ISBN10: 0312062362
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1992-01-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

This essayists-in-depth reader isalsoa thematic reader. It arranges 55 essays by 10 of the most widely read and highly regarded writers in the English language today (including Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, E. B. White, and George Orwell) under 10 classic and provocative themes.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction: What Is an Essay?	1	(6)
Moments of Insight	7	(42)
Once More to the Lake	9	(6)
E. B. White
An Episode of Bed-wetting	15	(5)
George Orwell
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	20	(7)
Alice Walker
The Median Isn't the Message	27	(5)
Stephen Jay Gould
Total Eclipse	32	(12)
Annie Dillard
The Moment: Summer's Night	44	(5)
Virginia Woolf
The Fabric of the Family	49	(56)
On Going Home	51	(4)
Joan Didion
Notes of a Native Son	55	(17)
James Baldwin
Aunt Poo	72	(6)
E. B. White
The Seam of the Snail	78	(4)
Cynthia Ozick
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	82	(9)
Alice Walker
22 Hyde Park Gate	91	(14)
Virginia Woolf
Heroes and Heroines	105	(58)
John Wayne: A Love Song	107	(8)
Joan Didion
The Stunt Pilot	115	(11)
Annie Dillard
Will Strunk	126	(7)
E. B. White
The Streak of Streaks	133	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
Ellen Terry	141	(6)
Virginia Woolf
Looking for Zora	147	(16)
Alice Walker
Teaching and Learning	163	(38)
St. Cyprian's	165	(8)
George Orwell
Washington Square, 1946	173	(7)
Cynthia Ozick
A Talk to Teachers	180	(7)
James Baldwin
How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum	187	(4)
Lewis Thomas
The Dinosaur Rip-off	191	(10)
Stephen Jay Gould
Journeys Near and Far	201	(40)
The Shock of Teapots	203	(3)
Cynthia Ozick
Journey to Nine Miles	206	(5)
Alice Walker
Walden	211	(7)
E. B. White
In the Jungle	218	(4)
Annie Dillard
Equal in Paris	222	(13)
James Baldwin
Miami	235	(6)
Joan Didion
Other Creatures	241	(28)
The Tucson Zoo	243	(3)
Lewis Thomas
Living Like Weasels	246	(4)
Annie Dillard
Death of a Pig	250	(8)
E. B. White
Shooting an Elephant	258	(7)
George Orwell
The Death of the Moth	265	(4)
Virginia Woolf
Men and Women	269	(34)
Brothers and Sisters	270	(4)
Alice Walker
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid	274	(4)
Virginia Woolf
Here Be Dragons	278	(13)
James Baldwin
Scabies, Scrapie	291	(4)
Lewis Thomas
Women's Brains	295	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Power of Language	303	(66)
Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, etc.	305	(4)
Lewis Thomas
Politics and the English Language	309	(12)
George Orwell
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?	321	(4)
James Baldwin
Insider Baseball	325	(21)
Joan Didion
The Question of Our Speech: The Return to Aural Culture	346	(23)
Cynthia Ozick
Science and the Imagination	369	(46)
What Is Science?	371	(4)
George Orwell
Humanities and Science	375	(8)
Lewis Thomas
Science and Letters: God's Work --- and Ours	383	(6)
Cynthia Ozick
Darwin's Middle Road	389	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
Stalking	397	(18)
Annie Dillard
The Writing Life	415	(42)
Why I Write	417	(7)
George Orwell
Schedules	424	(8)
Annie Dillard
On Keeping a Notebook	432	(7)
Joan Didion
A Drugstore in Winter	439	(6)
Cynthia Ozick
Autobiographical Notes	445	(5)
James Baldwin
Professions for Women	450	(7)
Virginia Woolf
The Essayists	457	(66)
James Baldwin	458	(8)
Joan Didion	466	(6)
Annie Dillard	472	(6)
Stephen Jay Gould	478	(6)
George Orwell	484	(6)
Cynthia Ozick	490	(6)
Lewis Thomas	496	(6)
Alice Walker	502	(6)
E. B. White	508	(6)
Virginia Woolf	514	(9)
Index of Authors and Titles	523