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The Winchester reader / edited by Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan.
Record details
- ISBN: 0312048807
- ISBN: 9780312048808
- ISBN: 0312020163
- ISBN: 9780312020163
- Physical Description: xviii, 1006 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Boston, MA : St. Martin's Press, ©1991.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Bedford books."Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface for instructors -- Part one: the first-person singular -- Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- On keeping a diary / William Safire -- Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Gumption / Russell Baker -- Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan -- Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- A & P [story] / John Updike -- Places in the heart : Edward Abbey, D.H. Lawrence, Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Ringgold Street / David Bradley -- The power of names : William Shakespeare, Haig A. Bosmajian, Booker T. Washington, Lucien Levy-Bruhl -- "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou -- Names / Mary McCarthy -- Seeing the elephant / Paul Gruchow -- Divided identities : Erik H. Erikson, Jan Clausen, Gloria Anzaldua -- Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda -- Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Part two: the social fabric -- What is an American? : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Enrique Lopez -- What is an American? / J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur -- America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed -- More than just a shrine : paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis island / Mary Gordon -- Bridging distances : Lewis Thomas, E.M. Forster, Cherrie Moraga, R.D. Laing -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- Distancing the homeless / Jonathan Kozol -- Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots : in the company of the mentally retarded / Sallie Tisdale -- Affirmations of love : Michael Denneny, Rose Weitz, Sigmund Freud -- The madness and myths of homophobia / George Weinberg -- Territory [story] / David Leavitt -- Don't tell me you don't know [story] / Dorothy Allison -- Crises of adolescence : Margaret Mead, Gail Sheehy, Laurence Steinberg -- From Teenagers in crisis / David Elkind -- Shopping [story] / Joyce Carol Oates -- A national obsession : Neil Postman, Pauline Kael, Maurine Doerken, Daniel J. Boorstin -- TV addition / Marie Winn -- Crack and the box / Pete Hamill -- Family stories : Clyde Edgerton, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Kittredge, Alex Haley -- Stories make a family / Elizabeth Stone -- Casa: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Granddaddy / Itabari Njeri -- Part three : everyday life -- Anxieties of appearance : Louis Harris, Nellie Wong, Arthur Schopenhauer -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- At war with my skin / John Updike -- Public space : Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Liu Binyan, Fran Lebowitz -- Territorial behavior / Desmond Morris -- Unfair game / Susan Jacoby -- Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples -- On holidays : Charles Dickens, Jeijun, Gwendolyn Brooks -- Happy New Year? / Russell Baker -- Ode to Thanksgiving / Michael Arlen -- On holidays and how to make them work / Nikki Giovanni -- Consumer culture : Thorstein Veblen, Sir Thomas More, Ellen Willis -- Kids in the mall : growing up controlled / William Severini Kowinski -- Shopping and other spiritual adventures in America today / Phyllis Rose -- The lesson [story] / Toni Cade Bambara -- The national pastime : Eve Babitz, Roger Angell, Elting E. Morison, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello -- Baseball : the ineffable national pastime / Gerald Early -- From father, with love / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- My baseball years / Philip Roth -- Part four : perspectives on gender -- The feminist movement today : Barbara Ehrenreich, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Rosario Morales, Audre Lorde -- Who says we haven't made a revolution? : a feminist takes stock / Vivian Gornick -- Feminisim: a transformational politic / bell hooks -- A letter to Matthew / Nancy Mairs -- Mothers : Marguerite Duras, Russell Baker, Marilyn French -- Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / Gloria Steinem -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- Mothers and sons / Barbara Lazear Ascher -- Fathers : Robert Frost, Mary-Lou Weisman, Alice Walker -- Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson -- Bridging [story] / Max Apple -- Fathering [story] / Bharati Mukherjee -- Gender roles and stereotypes : Germaine Greer, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, David M. Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers -- How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The woman of the future / Thomas Edison -- Girl [story] / Jamaica Kincaid -- The wimp factor / Bruce Curtis -- Resistance to stereotypes : Rita Mae Brown, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Paul Theroux -- Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf -- I want a wife / Judy Brady -- Mr. President / Bob Greene -- Conflicting loyalties : Olga Silverstein, Vivian Gornick, Terry Allen Kupers -- Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan -- Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen -- The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- Part five : enduring issues -- Declarations of independence : John Locke, Barbara C. Jordan, Mary Wollstonecraft -- The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- Declaration of independence of the democratioc republic of Viet-Nam / Ho Chi Minh -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The debate on abortion : Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Anna Quindlen, Ernest Hemingway, Florynce C. Kennedy -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer -- Putting women back into the abortion debate / Ellen Willis -- Freedom of expression : Michel de Montaigne, Carl L. Becker, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor -- The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann -- 2 live crew, decoded / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller -- Denigrating the species / H.L. Mencken, Taylor Caldwell, Thomas Hobbes -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Confession of faith / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The damned human race / Mark Twain -- Visions of the land : Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Noel Perrin, Brigid Brophy -- From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau -- The journey's end / Wendell Berry -- A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday -- Environmental action : Joy Williams, Aldo Leopold, J.E. Lovelock -- Natural man / Lewis Thomas -- Ecofeminism : our roots and flowering / Charlene Spretnak -- Women, home, and community : the struggle in an urban environment -- Part six : the power of language -- The languages of home : Barbara Mellix, Richard Rodriguez, An-Thu Quang Nguyen, Edmund Wilson -- The language of home / John Edgar Wideman -- From the poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall -- From A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The loudest voice [story] / Grace Paley -- Bilingualism : Tina Bakka, S.I. Hayakawa, Oscar Hijuelos -- Toward an American language / Richard Rodriguez -- Viva bilingualism / James Fallows -- Language and politics : Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- Words on words / Vaclav Havel -- Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan -- The power of metaphor : Aristotle, Jacob Bronowski, Cynthia Ozick, Judy Ruiz -- From Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- From AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Fighting words : Barbara Lawrence, Charles R. Lawrence, E. Digby Baltzell -- Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa -- A question of language / Gloria Naylor -- The WASP sting / Anne Roiphe -- Part seven : the pleasures of the mind -- Sight into insight : Helen Keller, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Hoggart -- Seeing / Annie Dillard -- The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- The loss of the creature / Walker Percy -- The unexpected universe : Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Carl Sandburg -- Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- Much ado about nothing / K.C. Cole -- Understanding horror : Stephen King, William James, Richard Wright -- The tell-tale heart [story] / Edgar Allan Poe -- In pursuit of pure horror / Harper's Magazine -- Origins : Robert Graves, Barbara C. Sproul, Isaac Bashevis Singer -- From Symposium / Plato -- Chapters one, two, and three / Genesis -- The time when there were no people on the earth plain / Bering Strait Eskimo creation myth -- The search for truth : Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Woody Allen -- Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon -- Stripping the mind of its beliefs / Rene Descartes -- Emptiness / Shunryu Suzuki -- Why we write : George Orwell, Toni Cade Bambara, Annie Dillard -- Why it write / Joan Didion / Nurturing resistance / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- I write for revenge against reality / Francine du Plessiz Gray -- B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca [story] / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- The act of reading : Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Edna Buchanan -- From Black boy / Richard Wright -- A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- Four kinds of reading / Donald Hall -- The art of reading / Lin Yutang -- The writers.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | PE 1417 .W56 1991 | 254377 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Preface for instructors -- | ||
| Part one: the first-person singular -- | ||
| Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher -- | ||
| On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- | ||
| Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- | ||
| On keeping a diary / William Safire -- | ||
| Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane -- | ||
| Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- | ||
| Gumption / Russell Baker -- | ||
| Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan -- | ||
| Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep -- | ||
| Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- | ||
| Salvation / Langston Hughes -- | ||
| A & P [story] / John Updike -- | ||
| Places in the heart : Edward Abbey, D.H. Lawrence, Eudora Welty -- | ||
| Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- | ||
| The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- | ||
| Ringgold Street / David Bradley -- | ||
| The power of names : William Shakespeare, Haig A. Bosmajian, Booker T. Washington, Lucien Levy-Bruhl -- | ||
| "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou -- | ||
| Names / Mary McCarthy -- | ||
| Seeing the elephant / Paul Gruchow -- | ||
| Divided identities : Erik H. Erikson, Jan Clausen, Gloria Anzaldua -- | ||
| Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda -- | ||
| Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich -- | ||
| On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- | ||
| Part two: the social fabric -- | ||
| What is an American? : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Enrique Lopez -- | ||
| What is an American? / J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur -- | ||
| America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed -- | ||
| More than just a shrine : paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis island / Mary Gordon -- | ||
| Bridging distances : Lewis Thomas, E.M. Forster, Cherrie Moraga, R.D. Laing -- | ||
| Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- | ||
| Distancing the homeless / Jonathan Kozol -- | ||
| Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots : in the company of the mentally retarded / Sallie Tisdale -- | ||
| Affirmations of love : Michael Denneny, Rose Weitz, Sigmund Freud -- | ||
| The madness and myths of homophobia / George Weinberg -- | ||
| Territory [story] / David Leavitt -- | ||
| Don't tell me you don't know [story] / Dorothy Allison -- | ||
| Crises of adolescence : Margaret Mead, Gail Sheehy, Laurence Steinberg -- | ||
| From Teenagers in crisis / David Elkind -- | ||
| Shopping [story] / Joyce Carol Oates -- | ||
| A national obsession : Neil Postman, Pauline Kael, Maurine Doerken, Daniel J. Boorstin -- | ||
| TV addition / Marie Winn -- | ||
| Crack and the box / Pete Hamill -- | ||
| Family stories : Clyde Edgerton, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Kittredge, Alex Haley -- | ||
| Stories make a family / Elizabeth Stone -- | ||
| Casa: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- | ||
| No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- | ||
| Granddaddy / Itabari Njeri -- | ||
| Part three : everyday life -- | ||
| Anxieties of appearance : Louis Harris, Nellie Wong, Arthur Schopenhauer -- | ||
| Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- | ||
| A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- | ||
| At war with my skin / John Updike -- | ||
| Public space : Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Liu Binyan, Fran Lebowitz -- | ||
| Territorial behavior / Desmond Morris -- | ||
| Unfair game / Susan Jacoby -- | ||
| Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples -- | ||
| On holidays : Charles Dickens, Jeijun, Gwendolyn Brooks -- | ||
| Happy New Year? / Russell Baker -- | ||
| Ode to Thanksgiving / Michael Arlen -- | ||
| On holidays and how to make them work / Nikki Giovanni -- | ||
| Consumer culture : Thorstein Veblen, Sir Thomas More, Ellen Willis -- | ||
| Kids in the mall : growing up controlled / William Severini Kowinski -- | ||
| Shopping and other spiritual adventures in America today / Phyllis Rose -- | ||
| The lesson [story] / Toni Cade Bambara -- | ||
| The national pastime : Eve Babitz, Roger Angell, Elting E. Morison, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello -- | ||
| Baseball : the ineffable national pastime / Gerald Early -- | ||
| From father, with love / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- | ||
| My baseball years / Philip Roth -- | ||
| Part four : perspectives on gender -- | ||
| The feminist movement today : Barbara Ehrenreich, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Rosario Morales, Audre Lorde -- | ||
| Who says we haven't made a revolution? : a feminist takes stock / Vivian Gornick -- | ||
| Feminisim: a transformational politic / bell hooks -- | ||
| A letter to Matthew / Nancy Mairs -- | ||
| Mothers : Marguerite Duras, Russell Baker, Marilyn French -- | ||
| Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / Gloria Steinem -- | ||
| In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- | ||
| Mothers and sons / Barbara Lazear Ascher -- | ||
| Fathers : Robert Frost, Mary-Lou Weisman, Alice Walker -- | ||
| Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson -- | ||
| Bridging [story] / Max Apple -- | ||
| Fathering [story] / Bharati Mukherjee -- | ||
| Gender roles and stereotypes : Germaine Greer, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, David M. Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers -- | ||
| How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes / Alexis de Tocqueville -- | ||
| The woman of the future / Thomas Edison -- | ||
| Girl [story] / Jamaica Kincaid -- | ||
| The wimp factor / Bruce Curtis -- | ||
| Resistance to stereotypes : Rita Mae Brown, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Paul Theroux -- | ||
| Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf -- | ||
| I want a wife / Judy Brady -- | ||
| Mr. President / Bob Greene -- | ||
| Conflicting loyalties : Olga Silverstein, Vivian Gornick, Terry Allen Kupers -- | ||
| Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan -- | ||
| Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen -- | ||
| The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- | ||
| Part five : enduring issues -- | ||
| Declarations of independence : John Locke, Barbara C. Jordan, Mary Wollstonecraft -- | ||
| The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- | ||
| Declaration of independence of the democratioc republic of Viet-Nam / Ho Chi Minh -- | ||
| Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- | ||
| I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- | ||
| The debate on abortion : Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Anna Quindlen, Ernest Hemingway, Florynce C. Kennedy -- | ||
| A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- | ||
| What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer -- | ||
| Putting women back into the abortion debate / Ellen Willis -- | ||
| Freedom of expression : Michel de Montaigne, Carl L. Becker, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor -- | ||
| The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann -- | ||
| 2 live crew, decoded / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- | ||
| Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller -- | ||
| Denigrating the species / H.L. Mencken, Taylor Caldwell, Thomas Hobbes -- | ||
| A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- | ||
| Confession of faith / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- | ||
| The damned human race / Mark Twain -- | ||
| Visions of the land : Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Noel Perrin, Brigid Brophy -- | ||
| From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau -- | ||
| The journey's end / Wendell Berry -- | ||
| A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday -- | ||
| Environmental action : Joy Williams, Aldo Leopold, J.E. Lovelock -- | ||
| Natural man / Lewis Thomas -- | ||
| Ecofeminism : our roots and flowering / Charlene Spretnak -- | ||
| Women, home, and community : the struggle in an urban environment -- | ||
| Part six : the power of language -- | ||
| The languages of home : Barbara Mellix, Richard Rodriguez, An-Thu Quang Nguyen, Edmund Wilson -- | ||
| The language of home / John Edgar Wideman -- | ||
| From the poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall -- | ||
| From A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston -- | ||
| The loudest voice [story] / Grace Paley -- | ||
| Bilingualism : Tina Bakka, S.I. Hayakawa, Oscar Hijuelos -- | ||
| Toward an American language / Richard Rodriguez -- | ||
| Viva bilingualism / James Fallows -- | ||
| Language and politics : Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin -- | ||
| Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- | ||
| Words on words / Vaclav Havel -- | ||
| Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan -- | ||
| The power of metaphor : Aristotle, Jacob Bronowski, Cynthia Ozick, Judy Ruiz -- | ||
| From Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- | ||
| From AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- | ||
| Fighting words : Barbara Lawrence, Charles R. Lawrence, E. Digby Baltzell -- | ||
| Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa -- | ||
| A question of language / Gloria Naylor -- | ||
| The WASP sting / Anne Roiphe -- | ||
| Part seven : the pleasures of the mind -- | ||
| Sight into insight : Helen Keller, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Hoggart -- | ||
| Seeing / Annie Dillard -- | ||
| The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- | ||
| The loss of the creature / Walker Percy -- | ||
| The unexpected universe : Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Carl Sandburg -- | ||
| Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- | ||
| The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- | ||
| Much ado about nothing / K.C. Cole -- | ||
| Understanding horror : Stephen King, William James, Richard Wright -- | ||
| The tell-tale heart [story] / Edgar Allan Poe -- | ||
| In pursuit of pure horror / Harper's Magazine -- | ||
| Origins : Robert Graves, Barbara C. Sproul, Isaac Bashevis Singer -- | ||
| From Symposium / Plato -- | ||
| Chapters one, two, and three / Genesis -- | ||
| The time when there were no people on the earth plain / Bering Strait Eskimo creation myth -- | ||
| The search for truth : Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Woody Allen -- | ||
| Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon -- | ||
| Stripping the mind of its beliefs / Rene Descartes -- | ||
| Emptiness / Shunryu Suzuki -- | ||
| Why we write : George Orwell, Toni Cade Bambara, Annie Dillard -- | ||
| Why it write / Joan Didion / Nurturing resistance / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- | ||
| I write for revenge against reality / Francine du Plessiz Gray -- | ||
| B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca [story] / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- | ||
| The act of reading : Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Edna Buchanan -- | ||
| From Black boy / Richard Wright -- | ||
| A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- | ||
| Four kinds of reading / Donald Hall -- | ||
| The art of reading / Lin Yutang -- | ||
| The writers. |