Great Writing provides a multi-genre collection of rhetorically organized essays, memoirs, speeches, stories, poems, and a play - all presented within familiar rhetorical contexts.
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* indicates a new reading in this edition 1: DESCRIPTION N. Scott Momaday: "The Last of the Kiowas" E. B. White: "Once More to the Lake" Emily Bronte: "Wuthering Heights, Chapter 1" (fiction)*Annie Dillard: "Mantis" Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymadias" (poem) *Virginia Woolf: "Death of the Moth" Alfred Kazin: "The Kitchen" *Linda Pastan, "Grudnow" John Keats: "Ode To Autumn" (poem) Melville Cane: "Snow Toward Evening" (poem) 2: NARRATION Willa Cather: "A Wagner Matinee" (fiction) Frederick Douglass: from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" Emily Dickinson: "There"s Been a Death in the Opposite / House" (poem) Raymond Carver: "My Father"s Life" Countee Cullen: "Incident" (poem) Judith Ortiz Cofer: "The Witch"s Husband" William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper" (poem) James Joyce: "Araby" (fiction) Langston Hughes: "Salvation" Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart" (fiction) *Ian Frazier: "Powwow" *Maya Angelou: "Graduation" *Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Wakefield" (fiction) 3: EXEMPLIFICATION Maxine Hong Kingston: "Family Ghosts" Barbara Tuchman: "The Black Death" James Thurber: "Courtship through the Ages" Walt Whitman: "There Was a Child Went Forth" (poem) *William Safire: "Census 2000" *Barbara Ehrenreich: "What I"ve Learned from Men" Gwendelyn Brooks: "We Real Cool" (poem) Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" (poem) William Zinsser: "Clutter" 4: PROCESS Joan Didion: "On Keeping a Notebook" Ernest Hemingway: "Camping Out" *Jessica Mitford, "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" Ovid: "The Creation" Henry David Thoreau: "On Economy" D.H. Lawrence: "The Rocking-Horse Winner" (fiction) Ved Mehta: "The Baby Myna" Carmara Laye: "The Gold Worker" Lorrie Moore: "How to Become a Better Writer" 5: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Virginia Woolf: "Shakespeare"s Gifted Sister" Amy Tan: "Two Kinds" *Adam Gopnik: "Like a King" Thomas Hardy: "The Ruined Maid" Seamus Heaney: "Digging" Susan Sontag: "Two Diseases" Plato: "The Allegory of the Cave" William Shakespeare: "My Mistress" Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" Robert Frost: "Fire and Ice" *Bruce Catton: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" Toni Morrison: "A Slow Walk of Trees" Alice Walker: "Everyday Use" 6: CLASSIFICATION *Judith Viorst: "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends" Irwin Shaw: "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" Dylan Thomas: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Henry Reed: "Naming of Parts" *Barbara Defoe Whitehead: "The Plight of the High-Status Woman" *Russell Baker: "The Plot Against People" Ecclesiastes: "Chapter 3" Malcolm Cowley: "The National Heartbeat: `We-ness" and `Me-ness"" Phillip Lopate: "Modern Friendships" 7: CAUSATION Albert Camus: "The Myth of Sisyphus" Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" (fiction) George Orwell: "Why I Write" Langston Hughes: "Dream Deferred" Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Richard Cory" (poem) William Shakespeare: "When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth" (poem) Jack London: "To Build a Fire" *Andrew Sullivan: "The He Hormone" *Patricia J. Williams: "Smart Bombs" 8: DEFINITION Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Gifts" Carson McCullers: "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud" Susan Brownmiller: "Feminity" *Leonard Kriegel: "Claiming the Self: The Cripple as American Man" Robert Graves: "The Naked and the Nude" *Judy Brady: "I Want a Wife" Marianne Moore: "Poetry" *Stephen L. Carter: "The Insufficiency of Honesty" Richard Rodriguez: "Complexion" 9: ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream" Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal" *Stephen Schulhofer: "Unwanted Sex" Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" Wilfred Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est" *Jane Smiley: "The Case Against Chores" *Katha Pollitt: "The Smurfette Principle" Franz Kafka: "The Judgment" John Stuart Mill: "On Liberty" Anton Chekhov: "A Marriage Proposal"
Table of contents:
* indicates a new reading in this edition 1: DESCRIPTION N. Scott Momaday: "The Last of the Kiowas" E. B. White: "Once More to the Lake" Emily Bronte: "Wuthering Heights, Chapter 1" (fiction)*Annie Dillard: "Mantis" Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymadias" (poem) *Virginia Woolf: "Death of the Moth" Alfred Kazin: "The Kitchen" *Linda Pastan, "Grudnow" John Keats: "Ode To Autumn" (poem) Melville Cane: "Snow Toward Evening" (poem) 2: NARRATION Willa Cather: "A Wagner Matinee" (fiction) Frederick Douglass: from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" Emily Dickinson: "There"s Been a Death in the Opposite / House" (poem) Raymond Carver: "My Father"s Life" Countee Cullen: "Incident" (poem) Judith Ortiz Cofer: "The Witch"s Husband" William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper" (poem) James Joyce: "Araby" (fiction) Langston Hughes: "Salvation" Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart" (fiction) *Ian Frazier: "Powwow" *Maya Angelou: "Graduation" *Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Wakefield" (fiction) 3: EXEMPLIFICATION Maxine Hong Kingston: "Family Ghosts" Barbara Tuchman: "The Black Death" James Thurber: "Courtship through the Ages" Walt Whitman: "There Was a Child Went Forth" (poem) *William Safire: "Census 2000" *Barbara Ehrenreich: "What I"ve Learned from Men" Gwendelyn Brooks: "We Real Cool" (poem) Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" (poem) William Zinsser: "Clutter" 4: PROCESS Joan Didion: "On Keeping a Notebook" Ernest Hemingway: "Camping Out" *Jessica Mitford, "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" Ovid: "The Creation" Henry David Thoreau: "On Economy" D.H. Lawrence: "The Rocking-Horse Winner" (fiction) Ved Mehta: "The Baby Myna" Carmara Laye: "The Gold Worker" Lorrie Moore: "How to Become a Better Writer" 5: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Virginia Woolf: "Shakespeare"s Gifted Sister" Amy Tan: "Two Kinds" *Adam Gopnik: "Like a King" Thomas Hardy: "The Ruined Maid" Seamus Heaney: "Digging" Susan Sontag: "Two Diseases" Plato: "The Allegory of the Cave" William Shakespeare: "My Mistress" Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" Robert Frost: "Fire and Ice" *Bruce Catton: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" Toni Morrison: "A Slow Walk of Trees" Alice Walker: "Everyday Use" 6: CLASSIFICATION *Judith Viorst: "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends" Irwin Shaw: "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" Dylan Thomas: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Henry Reed: "Naming of Parts" *Barbara Defoe Whitehead: "The Plight of the High-Status Woman" *Russell Baker: "The Plot Against People" Ecclesiastes: "Chapter 3" Malcolm Cowley: "The National Heartbeat: `We-ness" and `Me-ness"" Phillip Lopate: "Modern Friendships" 7: CAUSATION Albert Camus: "The Myth of Sisyphus" Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" (fiction) George Orwell: "Why I Write" Langston Hughes: "Dream Deferred" Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Richard Cory" (poem) William Shakespeare: "When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth" (poem) Jack London: "To Build a Fire" *Andrew Sullivan: "The He Hormone" *Patricia J. Williams: "Smart Bombs" 8: DEFINITION Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Gifts" Carson McCullers: "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud" Susan Brownmiller: "Feminity" *Leonard Kriegel: "Claiming the Self: The Cripple as American Man" Robert Graves: "The Naked and the Nude" *Judy Brady: "I Want a Wife" Marianne Moore: "Poetry" *Stephen L. Carter: "The Insufficiency of Honesty" Richard Rodriguez: "Complexion" 9: ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream" Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal" *Stephen Schulhofer: "Unwanted Sex" Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" Wilfred Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est" *Jane Smiley: "The Case Against Chores" *Katha Pollitt: "The Smurfette Principle" Franz Kafka: "The Judgment" John Stuart Mill: "On Liberty" Anton Chekhov: "A Marriage Proposal"