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The Millennium Reader

ISBN: 9780134545219 | 0134545214
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 2/1/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Millennium Reader is intended for freshman composition, intermediate and advanced composition coursed, introduction to literature courses, and courses that consider the essay as a form of literature.
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Rhetorical Contentsxi(8)
Prefacexix
Introduction: Reading in the Various Genres1(32)
1 REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE
33(64)
Nonfiction
34(37)
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant
34(6)
Fritz Peters
Boyhood with Gurdjieff
40(4)
Leonard Woolley
The Flood
44(5)
Dave Barry
Just Say No to Rugs
49(2)
Jill Nelson
Number One!
51(4)
Richard Rhodes
A Hole in the World
55(5)
Christy Brown
The Letter `A'
60(5)
James Herriot
Rumenotomy on a Cow
65(2)
Douchan Gersi
Initiated Into an Iban Tribe
67(4)
Fiction
71(21)
Natsume Soseki
I Am a Cat
71(11)
Amy Tan
Two Kinds
82(10)
Poetry
92(5)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXX, When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
92(1)
Sara Teasdale
The Solitary
93(1)
Rita Dove
The Wake
94(3)
2 INFLUEMENTAL PEOPLE AND MEMORABLE PLACES
97(79)
Nonfiction
98(52)
James Boswell
The Character of Samuel Johnson
98(4)
Raymond Carver
My Father's Life
102(7)
Tennessee Williams
The Man in the Overstuffed Chair
109(9)
Patricia Hampl
Grandmother's Sunday Dinner
118(3)
Mark Salzman
Lessons
121(6)
Sylvia Plath
from Letters Home (June 1953)
127(1)
E. M. Forster
My Wood
128(3)
P. D. Ouspensky
The Taj Mahal
131(10)
William Zinsser
Niagara Falls
141(9)
Fiction
150(19)
Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
150(13)
Donald Barthelme
I Bought a Little City
163(6)
Poetry
169(7)
Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter
169(2)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays
171(1)
Vasco Popa
The Lost Red Boot
172(1)
William Wordsworth
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
173(1)
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
174(2)
3 THE HUMAN CONDITION
176(101)
Nonfiction
177(57)
Mark Twain
The Lowest Animal
177(5)
Erwin Wickert
The Chinese and the Sense of Shame
182(11)
Stanley Milgram
The Perlis of Obedience
193(12)
Aristotle
Youth and Old Age
205(3)
Annie Dillard
So THis Was Adolescence
208(3)
Nora Ephron
A Few Words About Breasts
211(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Myth of the Latin Woman
218(5)
Stephen Jay Gould
Our Allotted Lifetimes
223(5)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Stages of Dying
228(6)
Fiction
234(23)
D. H. Lawrence
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
234(13)
Kate Chopin
Desiree's Baby
247(5)
Jerzy Kosinski
The Miller's Tale
252(5)
Poetry
257(4)
Anna Kamienska
Funny
257(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese: How Do I Love Thee?
258(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar
259(1)
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
260(1)
Drama
261(16)
Tewfik al-Hakim
The Donkey Market
261(16)
4 THE VALUE OF EDUCATION
277(72)
Nonfiction
278(50)
Fredrick Douglass
Learning to Read and Write
278(4)
Maya Angelou
Liked for Myself
282(4)
Eudora Welty
Clamorous to Learn
286(6)
Mary Crow Dog
Civilize Them With a Stick
292(7)
Mike Rose
Lives on the Boundary
299(12)
William A. Henry III
In Defense of Elitism
311(4)
Frank Conroy
Think About It
315(5)
Nat Hentoff
Speech Codes' on the Campus and the Problems of Free Speech
320(8)
Fiction
328(16)
Jamaica Kincaid
Girl
328(1)
Donald Barthelme
The School
329(3)
Tobias Wolff
Smokers
332(12)
Poetry
344(5)
Francis E. W. Harper
Learning to Read
344(2)
Linda Hogan
Workday
346(1)
Philip Larkin
A Study of Reading Habits
347(2)
5 PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE
349(56)
Nonfiction
350(38)
Amy Tan
Mother Tongue
350(5)
Susanne K. Langer
Language and Thought
355(5)
Helen Keller
The Day Language Came Into My Life
360(2)
Aldous Huxley
Propaganda Under a Dictatorship
362(6)
Bruno Bettleheim
The Holocaust
368(3)
Margaret Atwood
Pornography
371(5)
James Finn Garner
Little Red Riding Hood
376(2)
Joan Didion
Miami: The Cuban Presence
378(10)
Fiction
388(10)
Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
388(10)
Poetry
398(7)
Muriel Rukeyser
Myth
398(1)
Theodore Roethke
Open House
399(1)
T. S. Eliot
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
399(6)
6 ISSUES IN SOCIETY
405(85)
Nonfiction
406(60)
Margaret Sanger
The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery
406(5)
Richard Selzer
Abortion
411(6)
Paul Monette
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
417(4)
Mike Royko
Farewell to Fitness
421(2)
Kim Chernin
The Flesh and the Devil
423(7)
Philip Slater
What-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness
430(4)
Jo Goodwin Parker
What is Poverty?
434(4)
Richard Rhodes
Watching the Animals
438(8)
John McMurtry
Kill 'Em! Crush 'EM! Eat 'EM Raw!
446(6)
Jessica Mitford
Mortuary Solaces
452(5)
Alan Durning
Asking How Much Is Enough
457(4)
Benjamin Demott
Sure, We're All Just One Big Happy Family
461(5)
Fiction
466(16)
Andre Dubus
The Fat Girl
466(12)
Tobias Wolff
Say Yes
478(4)
Poetry
482(8)
Wing Tek Lum
Minority Poem
482(1)
Grace Caroline Bridges
Lisa's Ritual, Age 10
483(2)
Bruce Springsteen
Streets of Philadelphia
485(1)
Marge Piecy
Barbie Doll
486(1)
Marge Piercy
The Nine of Cups
487(1)
Audre Lorde
To My Daughter the Junkie on a Train
488(2)
7 THE NATURAL WORLD
490(105)
Nonfiction
491(78)
Jean Henri Fabre
The Praying Mantis
491(10)
Jane van Lawick-Goodall
First Observations
501(7)
E. B. White
Death of a Pig
508(7)
Konard Lorenz
The Dove and the Wolf
515(11)
Aldo Leopold
Thinking Like a Mountain
526(3)
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Very Warm Mountain
529(6)
Howard Hall
Playing Tag with Wild Dolphins
535(2)
Hans Zinsser
Rats and men
537(10)
Edward O. Wilson
Is Humanity Suicidal?
547(9)
Joseph K. Skinner
Big Mac and the Tropical Forests
556(6)
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
562(7)
Fiction
569(16)
Bessie Head
Looking for a Rain God
569(4)
William Faulkner
The Bear
573(12)
Poetry
585(10)
D. H. Lawrence
Snake
585(3)
Ted Hughes
Pike
588(2)
William Blake
The Tyger
590(1)
Marianne Moore
A Grave
591(1)
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
592(3)
8 THE HISTROICAL DIMENSION
595(85)
Nonfiction
596(54)
Howard Carter
Finding the Tomb
596(3)
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
The Journals of Lewis & Clark
602(2)
Kenneth M. Stampp
To Make Them Stand in Fear
604(4)
Sullivan Ballou
Sullivan Ballou Letter
608(1)
Walt Whitman
Death of Abraham Lincoln
609(8)
Robert Falcon Scott
Scott's Last March
617(10)
Jack London
The San Francisco Earthquake
627(6)
John Hersey
A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima
633(10)
Frances FitzGerald
Rewriting American History
643(7)
Fiction
650(24)
Ambrose Bierce
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
650(8)
Alice Walker
The Flowers
658(2)
Tadeus Borowski
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman
660(14)
Poetry
674(6)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
674(1)
Nelly Sachs
A Chorus of the Dead
675(1)
Elena Fourtouni
Child's Memory
676(2)
Galway Kinnell
For Robert Frost
678(2)
9 THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE
680(65)
Nonfiction
681(40)
Joseph Addison
The Political Upholsterer
681(3)
Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
684(3)
Golda Meir
We Have Our State
687(5)
Nien Cheng
The Red Guards
692(9)
Armando Valladares
A Nazi Prison in the Caribbean
701(7)
Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream
708(5)
Rigoberta Menchu
Things Have Happened to Me as in a Movie
713(3)
Slavenka Drakulic
The Balkan Express
716(5)
Fiction
721(19)
Albert Camus
The Guest
721(10)
Louise Erdrich
The Red Convertible
731(9)
Poetry
740(5)
W. H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen
740(1)
Margaret Atwood
At First I Was Given Centuries
741(2)
Carolyn Forche
The Colonel
743(2)
10 DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
745(95)
Nonfiction
746(58)
Horace Freeland Judson
The Rage to Know
746(9)
Charles H. Townes
Harnessing Light
755(5)
Douglas R. Houfstadter
The Turing Test
760(8)
O. B. Hardison Jr.
Charles Darwin's Tree of Life
768(8)
Constance Holden
Identical Twins Reared Apart
776(8)
Pamela Weintraub
The Brain: His and Hers
784(8)
Robert J. Samuelson
Technology in Reverse
792(3)
Esther Dyson
Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave it
795(4)
W. French Anderson
Genetics & Human Malleability
799(5)
Fiction
804(32)
John Cheever
THe Enormous Radio
804(8)
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
812(24)
Poetry
836(4)
Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer
836(1)
Peggy Seeger
I'm Gonna Be An Engineer
837(3)
11 THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE
840(88)
Nonfiction
841(51)
Anne Tyler
Still Just Writing
841(8)
Joyce Carol Oates
Against Nature
849(8)
Alice Munro
What Is Real?
857(3)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
860(10)
Agnes deMille
Pavlova
870(3)
Robert Benchley
Opera Synopsis
873(2)
Jeff Greenfield
The Beatles: They Changed Rock Which Changed the Culture, Which Changed Us
875(7)
Lance Morrow
Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle
882(4)
Octavio Paz
Fiesta
886(6)
Fiction
892(26)
James Baldwin
Sonny's Blues
892(26)
Poetry
918(10)
Dylan Thomas
In My Graft or Sullen Art
918(1)
Emily Dickinson
Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
919(1)
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
920(2)
William Carlos Williams
The Dance
922(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
924(4)
12 ETHICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS ISSUES
928(168)
Nonfiction
929(62)
Philip Wheelwright
The Meaning of Ethics
929(6)
George Bernard Shaw
On Vivisection
935(6)
Garrett Hardin
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
941(10)
Michael Levin
The Case for Torture
951(3)
Daniel Callahan
Aid in Dying: The Social Dimension
954(5)
Timothy E. Quill
My Patient's Suicide
959(3)
Randy Fitzgerald
The Great Spotted Owl War
962(5)
Donella Meadows
Not Seeing the Forest for the Dollar Bills
967(2)
William James
The Will to Believe
969(3)
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Growing Up Apocalyptic
972(10)
Langston Hughes
Salvation
982(2)
Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
984(7)
Fiction
991(25)
Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace
991(7)
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Man to Send Rain Clouds
998(4)
Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where have You Been?
1002(14)
Parables
1016(18)
Plato
The Allegory of the Cave
1016(5)
Parables in The New Testament
1021(5)
Parables of Buddha
1026(1)
Nasreddin Hodja
Islamic Folk Stories
1027(2)
W. Somerset Maugham
Death Speaks
1029(1)
Nagib Mahfouz
Half a Day
1030(4)
Poetry
1034(8)
Ted Hughes
Examinations at the Womb Door
1034(1)
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
1035(1)
Stevie Smith
The Galloping Cat
1036(2)
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1038(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover
1040(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
1041(1)
Drama
1042(54)
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
1042(54)
CREDITS1096(8)
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES1104

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