Ways of Reading : An Anthology for Writers

by Bartholomae

• ISBN13: 9780312409951
• ISBN10: 0312409958
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-12-28
• Publisher: VHPS

Summary

Much admired, widely adopted, and one-of-a-kind -- Ways of Reading combines lengthy and challenging readings with an innovative and demanding apparatus to engage students in conversations with some of the most powerful voices of our culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction: Ways of Reading	1	(1)
Making a Mark	1	(4)
Ways of Reading	5	(3)
Strong Readers, Strong Texts	8	(2)
Reading with and against the Grain	10	(2)
Working with Difficulty	12	(5)
Reading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments	17	(8)
The Readings	25	(706)
Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams	30	(1)
Preface	30	(1)
Harvard College (1854--1858)	31	(10)
The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)	41	(8)
Vis Inertiae (1903)	49	(15)
[From The Education of Henry Adams]
Gloria Anzaldua
Entering into the Serpent	64	(13)
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	77	(16)
[From Borderlands/La frontera]
James Baldwin
Stranger in the Village	93	(16)
[First Appeared in Harper's Magazine]
Jean Baudrillard
Utopia Achieved	109	(25)
[From America]
John Berger
Ways of Seeing	134	(23)
[From Ways of Seeing]
On Rembrandt's Woman in Bed	157	(2)
On Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew	159	(9)
[Selections from And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos]
Susan Bordo
Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body	168	(53)
[From The Male Body]
Michel Foucault
Panopticism	221	(35)
[From Discipline and Punish]
Paulo Freire
The ``Banking'' Concept of Education	256	(16)
[From Pedagogy of the Oppressed]
Clifford Geertz
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight	272	(40)
[From Interpretation of Cultures]
Susan Griffin
Our Secret	312	(55)
[From A Chorus of Stones]
Harriet (Brent) Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	367	(44)
[Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]
Patricia Nelson Limerick
Haunted America	411	(40)
[From Something in the Soil]
Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense	451	(17)
[From Philosophy and Truth]
Walker Percy
The Loss of the Creature	468	(19)
[From The Message in the Bottle]
Adam Phillips
Houdini's Box	487	(30)
[From Houdini's Box]
Mary Louise Pratt
Arts of the Contact Zone	517	(21)
[First Appeared in Profession 91]
Adrienne Rich
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision	538	(13)
[From On Lies, Secrets, and Silence]
Sources	551	(11)
[From Your Native Land, Your Life]
Richard Rodriguez
The Achievement of Desire	562	(26)
[From Hunger of Memory]
Renato Rosaldo
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage	588	(23)
[From Culture and Truth]
Edward Said
States	611	(43)
[From After the Last Sky]
Jane Tompkins
``Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History	654	(22)
[First Appeared in Critical Inquiry]
Alice Walker
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	676	(13)
[From In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens]
John Edgar Wideman
Our Time	689	(42)
[From Brothers and Keepers]
Assignment Sequences	731	(136)
Working with Assignment Sequences	733	(1)
Working with a Sequence	734	(3)
Sequence One The Aims of Education	737	(11)
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Freire The ``Banking'' Concept of Education
Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone
Griffin Our Secret
Assignments
``Self-Possession'' [Adams]	738	(1)
Applying Freire to Your Own Experience as a Student [Freire]	739	(2)
Studying Rich as a Case in Point [Freire, Rich]	741	(1)
Tradition and the Writing of the Past [Rich]	742	(1)
The Contact Zone [Pratt]	743	(1)
The Pedagogical Arts of the Contact Zone [Pratt]	744	(1)
Writing against the Grain [Griffin]	745	(1)
The Task of Attention [Griffin]	746	(1)
Putting Things Together [Adams, Freire, Rich, Pratt, Griffin]	747	(1)
Sequence Two The Arts of the Contact Zone	748	(9)
Pratt The Arts of the Contact Zone
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Anzaldua Entering into the Serpent; How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Baldwin Stranger in the Village
Said States
Assignments
The Literate Arts of the Contact Zone [Pratt]	749	(2)
Taking a Position [Pratt, Rosaldo]	751	(1)
Borderlands [Pratt, Anzaldua]	752	(1)
Autoethnography [Pratt, Jacobs]	753	(1)
Writing from Within [Pratt, Baldwin]	754	(1)
A Dialectic of Self and Other [Pratt, Said]	755	(1)
On Culture [Pratt, Rosaldo, Anzaldua, Jacobs, Baldwin, Said]	756	(1)
Sequence Three Autobiographical Explorations	757	(7)
Baldwin Stranger in the Village
Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire
Said States
Tompkins ``Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History
Assignments
Exploring Character [Baldwin]	758	(1)
Autobiographical Exploration [Baldwin]	759	(1)
Desire, Reading, and the Past [Rodriguez]	760	(1)
A Photographic Essay [Said]	761	(1)
Personal Experience as Intellectual Experience [Tompkins]	762	(1)
The ``I'' of the Personal Essay [Baldwin, Rodriguez, Said, Tompkins]	763	(1)
Sequence Four Autobiographical Explorations (II)	764	(6)
Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Wideman Our Time
Phillips Houdini's Box
Assignments
A Moment of Hesitation [Rich]	764	(1)
Hesitation, Again [Rosaldo, Rich]	765	(1)
An Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]	766	(1)
Another Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]	766	(1)
Old Habits [Wideman]	767	(1)
A World Elsewhere [Phillips]	768	(1)
The ``I'' of the Personal Essay [Rich, Rosaldo, Adams, Wideman, Phillips]	768	(2)
Sequence Five Writing with Style	770	(10)
Wideman Our Time
Baldwin Stranger in the Village
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Berger Ways of Seeing
Griffin Our Secret
Phillips Houdini's Box
Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
Assignments
Language, Rhythm, Tone [Wideman]	771	(1)
The Sentence [Baldwin]	772	(1)
Style and the Sentence [Wideman, Baldwin, Adams]	773	(1)
Character, Point of View [Berger]	774	(1)
The Paragraph, the Essay [Griffin]	775	(1)
Style Beyond the Sentence [Phillips]	776	(1)
The Pleasure of the Text [Bordo]	777	(1)
A Classroom Lesson	778	(2)
Sequence Six Truth and Method	780	(9)
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Phillips Houdini's Box
Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
Limerick Haunted America
Assignments
Positioning and Repositioning [Rosaldo]	781	(1)
The Manikin [Adams]	781	(1)
What, Then, Is Truth? [Nietzsche]	782	(1)
Metaphor and the Story of Education [Nietzsche]	783	(1)
Good Directions [Phillips]	784	(1)
Hide and Seek [Phillips, Rosaldo]	785	(1)
Writing as Revision [Rich]	786	(1)
The Laws of Motion [Rich, Adams]	786	(1)
A Twelve-Point Guide to War [Limerick]	787	(1)
The Absolute and the Relative [Rosaldo]	788	(1)
Sequence Seven Experimental Readings and Writings	789	(8)
Griffin Our Secret
Said States
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Wideman Our Time
Anzaldua Entering into the Serpent; How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Baudrillard Utopia Achieved
Assignments
A Mix of Personal and Academic Writing [Griffin]	790	(1)
Unconventional, Hybrid, and Fragmentary Forms [Said]	791	(1)
An Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]	792	(1)
Turning This Way and That [Wideman]	793	(1)
A Crazy Dance [Anzaldua]	794	(1)
Extravagance [Baudrillard]	795	(1)
Writing and Schooling [Griffin, Said, Adams, Wideman, Anzaldua, Baudrillard]	795	(2)
Sequence Eight Experts and Expertise	797	(6)
Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
Geertz Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Wideman Our Time
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Percy The Loss of the Creature
Assignments
Looking Back [Rich]	798	(1)
Seeing Your World through Geertz's Eyes [Geertz]	799	(1)
On Ritual [Rosaldo]	800	(1)
Wideman as a Case in Point [Wideman]	800	(1)
On Experts and Expertise [Rich, Geertz, Wideman, Rosaldo, Percy]	801	(2)
Sequence Nine History and Ethnography: Reading the Lives of Others	803	(8)
Geertz Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Limerick Haunted America
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Wideman Our Time
Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone
Assignments
Ethnography [Geertz]	804	(1)
History [Limerick]	805	(1)
Taking a Position [Rosaldo]	806	(1)
A Writer's Guide [Wideman, Rosaldo, Geertz, Limerick]	807	(1)
Revision [Geertz, Limerick]	807	(1)
Reading Others [Pratt]	808	(1)
Revision (Again) [Geertz, Limerick, Rosaldo, Wideman, Pratt]	809	(2)
Sequence Ten On Difficulty	811	(6)
Foucault Panopticism
Wideman Our Time
Baudrillard Utopia Achieved
Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
Assignments
Foucault's Fabrication [Foucault]	811	(1)
A Story of Reading [Wideman]	812	(1)
Travel Writing [Baudrillard]	813	(1)
Writing the Truth [Nietzsche]	814	(1)
The Pleasures of the Text [Bordo]	815	(1)
A Theory of Difficulty [Foucault, Wideman, Baudrillard, Nietzsche, Bordo]	816	(1)
Sequence Eleven Reading Culture	817	(6)
Berger Ways of Seeing
Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Foucault Panopticism
Assignments
Looking at Pictures [Berger]	818	(1)
Berger and After [Berger, Bordo]	819	(1)
Reading the Body [Bordo]	819	(1)
Reading Ritual [Rosaldo]	820	(1)
On Agency [Berger, Bordo, Rosaldo, Foucault]	821	(1)
Reading Culture [Berger, Bordo, Rosaldo, Foucault]	822	(1)
Sequence Twelve Taking a Position	823	(6)
Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone
Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
Berger Ways of Seeing
Assignments
Positioning and Repositioning [Rosaldo]	824	(1)
The Contact Zone [Rosaldo, Pratt]	824	(1)
The Gaze [Bordo]	825	(1)
Taking a Position [Bordo]	826	(1)
Ways of Seeing [Berger]	827	(1)
Local Context; Local Interest [Rosaldo]	827	(2)
Sequence Thirteen The Uses of Reading	829	(4)
Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire
Hoggart The Scholarship Boy
Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
Berger Ways of Seeing
Said States
Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Bartholomae and Petrosky Introduction to Ways of Reading
Assignments
The Scholarship Boy [Rodriguez, Hoggart]	830	(1)
Sources [Bordo, Berger]	830	(1)
Sources 2 [Said, Nietzsche]	831	(1)
Contrary Instincts [Walker]	832	(1)
Ways of Reading [Bartholomae, Petrosky]	832	(1)
Sequence Fourteen Ways of Seeing	833	(6)
Berger Ways of Seeing
Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
Assignments
Ways of Seeing [Berger]	833	(1)
A Painting in Writing [Berger]	834	(1)
Berger Writing [Berger]	835	(1)
Writing Berger [Bordo, Berger]	836	(2)
Revision [Berger]	838	(1)
Sequence Fifteen Working with the Past	839	(14)
Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire
Hoggart A Scholarship Boy
Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Said States
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Assignments
A Scholarship Boy [Rodriguez, Hoggart]	840	(8)
A Slave Narrative [Jacobs]	848	(2)
Working with the Past [Walker]	850	(1)
Legacies [Walker, Jacobs]	850	(1)
Writing History [Said]	851	(1)
Learning from the Past [Adams]	852	(1)
Sequence Sixteen A World Elsewhere: Language, History, and Identity	853	(8)
Phillips Houdini's Box
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire
Griffin Our Secret
Anzaldua Entering into the Serpent; How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Assignments
A World Elsewhere [Phillips]	854	(1)
The Manikin [Adams]	855	(1)
Hide and Seek/The Tailor and the Manikin [Phillips, Adams, Rodriguez]	856	(1)
The Matrix [Griffin, Phillips, Adams]	857	(1)
La conciencia de la mestiza/Toward a New Consciousness [Anzaldua, Rodriguez]	858	(1)
The Voice of the Unwritten Self [Jacobs]	858	(2)
Back to the Beginning [A Retrospective]	860	(1)
Sequence Seventeen Writing History	861	(3)
Limerick Haunted America
Tompkins ``Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History
Assignments
Haunted America [Limerick]	861	(1)
``'Indians''' [Tompkins]	862	(1)
Writing History [Limerick, Tompkins]	863	(1)
Sequence Eighteen Writing Projects	864	(3)
Said States
Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
Wideman Our Time
Assignments
Words and Images [Said]	864	(1)
An Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]	865	(1)
A Project [Rich]	866	(1)
Writing the ``Real'' [Wideman]	866	(1)
Commentary [Said, Adams, Rich, Wideman]	867