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Now available for the first time in a Brief Edition, this classic thematic anthology has long been hailed for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, memoirs, stories, poems, and plays, and for its inclusion of classic and contemporary images.
Contents
Rhetorical ContentsPrefaceTHE SEARCH FOR SELF NOTEBOOK CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Praetor VioletARYEH LEV STOLLMAN, Die Grosse Liebe (including Leander photo)URSULA MELENDI, All of Heaven for LovePERSONAL REMINISCENCESANNIE DILLARD, So This Was AdolescenceGREG GRAFFIN, Anarchy in the Tenth GradeNANCY MAIRS, On Being a Cripple JORGE LUIS BORGES, Borges and IZORA NEALE HURSTON, How it Feels to Be Colored MeFICTION ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Indian CampSANDRA CISNEROS, HipsPOETRYDYLAN THOMAS, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the FlowerDENISE LEVERTOV, In MindANNE SEXTON, Her KindCARL DENNIS, The God Who Loves YouPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: PARENTS AND CHILDREN NOTEBOOK THOMAS LYNCH, The Way We AreJUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican ChildhoodESSAYSTHE KORAN, Sura 12. JosephFICTIONEDWIDGE DANTICAT, Selection from Breath, Eyes, MemoryWILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Use of ForceELIZABETH SPENCER, Instrument of DestructionPOETRYBOB DYLAN, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: MEN AND WOMEN NOTEBOOKLEO BRAUDY, Arms and the ManJARED DIAMOND, What are Men Good For?ESSAYSMARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of WomanVIRGINIA WOOLF, The Angel in the HouseMARGARET ATWOOD, Fiction: Happy EndingsFICTIONKATE CHOPIN A Respectable WomanPOETRYWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)WILLIAM BLAKE, The Garden of LoveRITA DOVE, Beauty and the BeastGREGORY CORSO, Marriage E. E. CUMMINGS, I like my body when it is with yourTHE CULTURAL TRADITION: POPULAR CULTURE NOTEBOOKGLORIA STEINEM, Wonder WomanMARINA WARNER, Fantasy's Power and PerilESSAYSROGER EBERT, Great Movies ERIC SCHLOSSER, Fast Food Nation RANDALL KENNEDY, The N-WordJULIAN JOHNSON, Who Needs Classical Music? POETRYSONIA SANCHEZ, A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald THE CULTURAL TRADITION: ART, THE ARTIST, AND SOCIETY NOTEBOOKV. S. NAIPAUL. Two Worlds: Nobel Lecture 2001STEPHEN KING, Selection from On Writing ESSAYS E.M. FORSTER, Art for Art's SakeCRISTIAN AMIGO, Intervention #1: Musical OpeningsJOHN BERGER, Uses of Photography JORN JACOB ROHWER, The Art of Conversation: How Spoken Words Turn Into Writing, and Arthur Miller: I've Never Been a HeroFICTIONWILLA CATHER, The Sculptor's Funeral POETRYCATE MARVIN, Ocean is a Word in this PoemWALT WHITMAN, Poets to ComeSCIENCE, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE FUTURE NOTEBOOKHENRY DAVID THOREAU, Why I Went Out into the WoodsEDWARD O. WILSON, A Letter to ThoreauPERSONAL REMINISCENCESFREEMAN DYSON, Can Science Be Ethical?ESSAYSALAN TENNANT, Great Plains of the ArcticMATT RIDLEY, Free Will NILES ELDREDGE, Creationism Isn't ScienceBARBARA GOLDSMITH, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie CurieSHIREEN LEE, The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and FeminismPOETRYAFFONSO ROMANO DeSANT'ANNA, Letter to the DeadFREEDOM AND HUMAN DIGNITY NOTEBOOKMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a DreamDOROTHY DAY, Martin Luther King ESSAYSTHOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT, Seneca Falls ConventionABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg AddressWILLIAM FAULKNER, Nobel Prize Award SpeechGEORGE ORWELL, The Principles of NewspeakCHIEF SEATTLE, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port ElliottPLATO, The Crito MARY GORDON, A Moral ChoicePOETRYREYNOLDS PRICE, Tom, Dying of AIDSMATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover BeachGLOBALISM, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITYNOTEBOOKADAM GOPNIK, The City and the PillarsANTHONY SHADID, Legacy of the Prophet ELIE WIESEL, Why I am an AmericanPERSONAL REMINISCENCESRICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Hispanic ESSAYS SUSAN SONTAG, Regarding the Pain of OthersJAMES BALDWIN, The Discovery of What it Means to be an AmericanCARSON McCULLERS, Loneliness ... an American MaladyNICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared DRAMATONY KUSHNER, Homebody/KabulPOETRYTED KOOSER, Prisoners from the FrontKATHA POLLITT, Night SubwayTHE EXAMINED LIFE: EDUCATIONNOTEBOOKMALCOLM X, A Homemade EducationANTON CHEKHOV, The BetESSAYSREYNOLDS PRICE, The Great Imagination HeistJOAN E. HARTMAN, What We Did and Why We Did ItLEWIS THOMAS, Humanities and ScienceKEVIN FINNERAN, The Merits of MeritocracyGEOFFREY NUNBERG , Teaching Students to Swim in the Online SeaPOETRYLANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B
