John Clifford / Robert DiYanni
Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15
Herausgeber: Clifford, John
John Clifford / Robert DiYanni
Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15
Herausgeber: Clifford, John
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MODERN AMERICAN PROSE, Third Edition, includes four essays by each of fifteen major American essayists and one essay by each of fifteen American writers, allowing students to see the range of a writer's work and the creative nature of the essay. Excellent rhetorical apparatus (introductions and questions) provides a means to more analytical and evaluative reading. The broad collection of writers and works gives students an introduction to the nature and power of the essay as a genre, plus a better sense of writers' individual and varied voices.
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MODERN AMERICAN PROSE, Third Edition, includes four essays by each of fifteen major American essayists and one essay by each of fifteen American writers, allowing students to see the range of a writer's work and the creative nature of the essay. Excellent rhetorical apparatus (introductions and questions) provides a means to more analytical and evaluative reading. The broad collection of writers and works gives students an introduction to the nature and power of the essay as a genre, plus a better sense of writers' individual and varied voices.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
- Revised
- Seitenzahl: 698
- Erscheinungstermin: Januar 1993
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 151mm x 38mm
- Gewicht: 993g
- ISBN-13: 9780070113961
- ISBN-10: 0070113963
- Artikelnr.: 21171799
- Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
- Revised
- Seitenzahl: 698
- Erscheinungstermin: Januar 1993
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 151mm x 38mm
- Gewicht: 993g
- ISBN-13: 9780070113961
- ISBN-10: 0070113963
- Artikelnr.: 21171799
Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976). Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women’s Voices; Like Season’d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997).
1. Introduction. 2. James Baldwin
Autobiographical Notes
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
If Black English Isn't a Language
Then Tell Me
What Is?
Notes of a Native Son. 3. Joan Didion
Marrying Absurd
The White Album
Miami
Salvador
Why I Write
On Keeping a Notebook. 4. Annie Dillard
Jest and Earnest
Living Like Weasels
Transfiguration
Skating
The Writing Life. 5. Loren Eiseley
The Long Loneliness
The Judgment of the Birds
The Dance of the Frogs
The Running Man. 6. Ellen Goodman
On Being a Journalist
The Company Man
It's Failure
Not Success
The Tapestry of Friendships
In the Male Direction. 7. Stephen Jay Gould
Prologue
Flaws in a Victorian Veil
Woman's Brains
Evolution as Fact and Theory. 8. Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
On Discovery
The Wild Man of the Green Swamp
Silence. 9. Barry Lopez
The Stone Horse
The Clamor of Justification
Children in the Woods
Perspective. 10. John McPhee
Los Angeles Against the Mountains
Pirates
Stowaways
Drugs
The Pineys
The Swiss at War. 11. Richard Selzer
The Pen and the Scalpel
The Knife
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold
Imelda. 12. Lewis Thomas
The Iks
The Lives of a Cell
The Tucson Zoo
To Err Is Human
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. 13. Barbara Tuchman
In Search of History
The Idea and the Deed
The Black Death
Is History a Guide to the Future? 14. Alice Walker
Brothers and Sisters
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. 15. E. B. White
The Essayist
The Sea and the Wind That Blows
Death of a Pig
The Ring of Time
Once More to the Lake. 16. Tom Wolfe
Las Vegas
Only One Life
The Pump House Gang
The Right Stuff. 17. Other Voices: Wendel Berry
Feminism
the Body
and the Machine. Gretel Ehrlich
Friends
Foes
and Working Animals. Louise Erdrich
Forward to The Broken Cord. Mary Gordon
The Parable of the Cove; or
In Praise of Watercolors. Edward Hoagland
What I Think
What I Am. Zora Neale Hurston
How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Martin Luther King
Jr.
I Have a Dream. Norman Mailer
The Siege of Chicago. Nancy Mairs
On Being a Cripple. Maile Meloy
The Voice of the Looking-glass. N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain. Joyce Carol Dates
Macho Time. Richard Rodriguez
Complexion. Philip Roth
Safe at Home. Susan Sontag
on AIDS.
Autobiographical Notes
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
If Black English Isn't a Language
Then Tell Me
What Is?
Notes of a Native Son. 3. Joan Didion
Marrying Absurd
The White Album
Miami
Salvador
Why I Write
On Keeping a Notebook. 4. Annie Dillard
Jest and Earnest
Living Like Weasels
Transfiguration
Skating
The Writing Life. 5. Loren Eiseley
The Long Loneliness
The Judgment of the Birds
The Dance of the Frogs
The Running Man. 6. Ellen Goodman
On Being a Journalist
The Company Man
It's Failure
Not Success
The Tapestry of Friendships
In the Male Direction. 7. Stephen Jay Gould
Prologue
Flaws in a Victorian Veil
Woman's Brains
Evolution as Fact and Theory. 8. Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
On Discovery
The Wild Man of the Green Swamp
Silence. 9. Barry Lopez
The Stone Horse
The Clamor of Justification
Children in the Woods
Perspective. 10. John McPhee
Los Angeles Against the Mountains
Pirates
Stowaways
Drugs
The Pineys
The Swiss at War. 11. Richard Selzer
The Pen and the Scalpel
The Knife
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold
Imelda. 12. Lewis Thomas
The Iks
The Lives of a Cell
The Tucson Zoo
To Err Is Human
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. 13. Barbara Tuchman
In Search of History
The Idea and the Deed
The Black Death
Is History a Guide to the Future? 14. Alice Walker
Brothers and Sisters
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. 15. E. B. White
The Essayist
The Sea and the Wind That Blows
Death of a Pig
The Ring of Time
Once More to the Lake. 16. Tom Wolfe
Las Vegas
Only One Life
The Pump House Gang
The Right Stuff. 17. Other Voices: Wendel Berry
Feminism
the Body
and the Machine. Gretel Ehrlich
Friends
Foes
and Working Animals. Louise Erdrich
Forward to The Broken Cord. Mary Gordon
The Parable of the Cove; or
In Praise of Watercolors. Edward Hoagland
What I Think
What I Am. Zora Neale Hurston
How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Martin Luther King
Jr.
I Have a Dream. Norman Mailer
The Siege of Chicago. Nancy Mairs
On Being a Cripple. Maile Meloy
The Voice of the Looking-glass. N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain. Joyce Carol Dates
Macho Time. Richard Rodriguez
Complexion. Philip Roth
Safe at Home. Susan Sontag
on AIDS.
1. Introduction. 2. James Baldwin
Autobiographical Notes
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
If Black English Isn't a Language
Then Tell Me
What Is?
Notes of a Native Son. 3. Joan Didion
Marrying Absurd
The White Album
Miami
Salvador
Why I Write
On Keeping a Notebook. 4. Annie Dillard
Jest and Earnest
Living Like Weasels
Transfiguration
Skating
The Writing Life. 5. Loren Eiseley
The Long Loneliness
The Judgment of the Birds
The Dance of the Frogs
The Running Man. 6. Ellen Goodman
On Being a Journalist
The Company Man
It's Failure
Not Success
The Tapestry of Friendships
In the Male Direction. 7. Stephen Jay Gould
Prologue
Flaws in a Victorian Veil
Woman's Brains
Evolution as Fact and Theory. 8. Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
On Discovery
The Wild Man of the Green Swamp
Silence. 9. Barry Lopez
The Stone Horse
The Clamor of Justification
Children in the Woods
Perspective. 10. John McPhee
Los Angeles Against the Mountains
Pirates
Stowaways
Drugs
The Pineys
The Swiss at War. 11. Richard Selzer
The Pen and the Scalpel
The Knife
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold
Imelda. 12. Lewis Thomas
The Iks
The Lives of a Cell
The Tucson Zoo
To Err Is Human
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. 13. Barbara Tuchman
In Search of History
The Idea and the Deed
The Black Death
Is History a Guide to the Future? 14. Alice Walker
Brothers and Sisters
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. 15. E. B. White
The Essayist
The Sea and the Wind That Blows
Death of a Pig
The Ring of Time
Once More to the Lake. 16. Tom Wolfe
Las Vegas
Only One Life
The Pump House Gang
The Right Stuff. 17. Other Voices: Wendel Berry
Feminism
the Body
and the Machine. Gretel Ehrlich
Friends
Foes
and Working Animals. Louise Erdrich
Forward to The Broken Cord. Mary Gordon
The Parable of the Cove; or
In Praise of Watercolors. Edward Hoagland
What I Think
What I Am. Zora Neale Hurston
How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Martin Luther King
Jr.
I Have a Dream. Norman Mailer
The Siege of Chicago. Nancy Mairs
On Being a Cripple. Maile Meloy
The Voice of the Looking-glass. N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain. Joyce Carol Dates
Macho Time. Richard Rodriguez
Complexion. Philip Roth
Safe at Home. Susan Sontag
on AIDS.
Autobiographical Notes
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
If Black English Isn't a Language
Then Tell Me
What Is?
Notes of a Native Son. 3. Joan Didion
Marrying Absurd
The White Album
Miami
Salvador
Why I Write
On Keeping a Notebook. 4. Annie Dillard
Jest and Earnest
Living Like Weasels
Transfiguration
Skating
The Writing Life. 5. Loren Eiseley
The Long Loneliness
The Judgment of the Birds
The Dance of the Frogs
The Running Man. 6. Ellen Goodman
On Being a Journalist
The Company Man
It's Failure
Not Success
The Tapestry of Friendships
In the Male Direction. 7. Stephen Jay Gould
Prologue
Flaws in a Victorian Veil
Woman's Brains
Evolution as Fact and Theory. 8. Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
On Discovery
The Wild Man of the Green Swamp
Silence. 9. Barry Lopez
The Stone Horse
The Clamor of Justification
Children in the Woods
Perspective. 10. John McPhee
Los Angeles Against the Mountains
Pirates
Stowaways
Drugs
The Pineys
The Swiss at War. 11. Richard Selzer
The Pen and the Scalpel
The Knife
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold
Imelda. 12. Lewis Thomas
The Iks
The Lives of a Cell
The Tucson Zoo
To Err Is Human
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. 13. Barbara Tuchman
In Search of History
The Idea and the Deed
The Black Death
Is History a Guide to the Future? 14. Alice Walker
Brothers and Sisters
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. 15. E. B. White
The Essayist
The Sea and the Wind That Blows
Death of a Pig
The Ring of Time
Once More to the Lake. 16. Tom Wolfe
Las Vegas
Only One Life
The Pump House Gang
The Right Stuff. 17. Other Voices: Wendel Berry
Feminism
the Body
and the Machine. Gretel Ehrlich
Friends
Foes
and Working Animals. Louise Erdrich
Forward to The Broken Cord. Mary Gordon
The Parable of the Cove; or
In Praise of Watercolors. Edward Hoagland
What I Think
What I Am. Zora Neale Hurston
How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Martin Luther King
Jr.
I Have a Dream. Norman Mailer
The Siege of Chicago. Nancy Mairs
On Being a Cripple. Maile Meloy
The Voice of the Looking-glass. N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain. Joyce Carol Dates
Macho Time. Richard Rodriguez
Complexion. Philip Roth
Safe at Home. Susan Sontag
on AIDS.