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The millennium reader (5th ed )
Authors: HIRSCHBERG Stuart, HIRSCHBERG Terry
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Rhetorical Contents xi
Preface xvii
Introduction: Reading in the Various
Genres 1
Reading Essays 1
Reading Fiction 20
Reading Poetry 22
Reading Drama 23
Literary Works in Context 25
Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts 26
Elements of Design 27
Reading Images as Cultural Signs 30
1 REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE 33
Nonfiction
George Orwell Shooting an Elephant 34
Ruth Reichl Betty 40
Jill Nelson Number One! 50
Fritz Peters Boyhood with Gurdjieff 54
Beryl Markham West with the Night 58
Dave Barry Just Say No to Rugs 68
Douchan Gersi Initiated into an Iban
Tribe of Headhunters 70
James Herriot Rumenotomy on a Cow 75
Fiction
William Maxwell The Pilgrimage 77
Andre Dubus The Fat Girl 85
Poetry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? 97
Sara Teasdale The Solitary 98
Nikki Giovanni Nikki-Rosa 99
Connections for Chapter 1:
Reflections on Experience 100
2 MEMORABLE PEOPLE AND PLACES 102
Nonfiction
Maya Angelou Liked for Myself 103
Gayle Pemberton Antidisestablishmentarianism 107
Mikhal Gilmore My Brother, Gary Gilmore 114
Fatima Mernissi Moonlit Nights of Laughter 125
Richard Rhodes A Hole in the World 130
Rudolph Chelminski Turning Point 134
Rick Bass A Fitting Desire 141
Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain 143
Fiction
Raymond Carver Neighbors 146
John Cheever Reunion151
Poetry
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays 154
Marianne Moore A Grave 155
William Carlos Williams At the Ball Game 157
Connections for Chapter 2:
Memorable People and Places 160
3 THE VALUE OF EDUCATION 162
Nonfiction
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write 163
Jonathan Kozol The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society 168
Mike Adams The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome 175
Richard Rodriguez On Becoming a Chicano 181
Sabine Reichel Learning What Was Never Taught 188
Nat Hentoff 'Speech Codes' on the Campus 197
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes Civilize Them with a Stick 204
Judy Blume Is Harry Potter Evil? 211
Mark Salzman Lessons 213
Fiction
Edward P. Jones The First Day 219
Poetry
Linda Hogan Workday 223
Tom Wayman Did I Miss Anything? 225
Connections for Chapter 3:
The Value of Education 227
4 PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE 228
Nonfiction
Helen Keller The Day Language Came into My Life 229
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures 231
Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation 236
George Lakoff Anger 241
Alison Lurie The Language of Clothes 250
Amy Tan Mother Tongue 256
Aldous Huxley Propaganda under a Dictatorship 261
Stuart Hirschberg The Rhetoric of Advertising 267
Fiction
Gish Jen Who's I