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Ways of Reading : An Anthology for Writers

by: Bartholomae

Ways of Reading : An Anthology for Writers

by: Bartholomae

ISBN 13:
9780312409951
ISBN 10:
0312409958
Edition: 7th
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 12/28/2004
Publisher: VHPS

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Summary

Much admired, widely adopted, and one-of-a-kind -- Ways of Reading combines lengthy and challenging readings with an innovative and demanding apparatus to engage students in conversations with some of the most powerful voices of our culture.

Preface

Introduction: Ways of Reading

(1)

Making a Mark

(4)

Ways of Reading

(3)

Strong Readers, Strong Texts

(2)

Reading with and against the Grain

(2)

Working with Difficulty

(5)

Reading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments

(8)

The Readings

(706)

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

(1)

Preface

(1)

Harvard College (1854--1858)

(10)

The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)

(8)

Vis Inertiae (1903)

(15)

[From The Education of Henry Adams]

Gloria Anzaldua

Entering into the Serpent

(13)

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

(16)

[From Borderlands/La frontera]

James Baldwin

Stranger in the Village

(16)

[First Appeared in Harper's Magazine]

Jean Baudrillard

Utopia Achieved

109

(25)

[From America]

John Berger

Ways of Seeing

134

(23)

[From Ways of Seeing]

On Rembrandt's Woman in Bed

157

(2)

On Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew

159

(9)

[Selections from And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos]

Susan Bordo

Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

168

(53)

[From The Male Body]

Michel Foucault

Panopticism

221

(35)

[From Discipline and Punish]

Paulo Freire

The ``Banking'' Concept of Education

256

(16)

[From Pedagogy of the Oppressed]

Clifford Geertz

Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

272

(40)

[From Interpretation of Cultures]

Susan Griffin

Our Secret

312

(55)

[From A Chorus of Stones]

Harriet (Brent) Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

367

(44)

[Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]

Patricia Nelson Limerick

Haunted America

411

(40)

[From Something in the Soil]

Friedrich Nietzsche

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

451

(17)

[From Philosophy and Truth]

Walker Percy

The Loss of the Creature

468

(19)

[From The Message in the Bottle]

Adam Phillips

Houdini's Box

487

(30)

[From Houdini's Box]

Mary Louise Pratt

Arts of the Contact Zone

517

(21)

[First Appeared in Profession 91]

Adrienne Rich

When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

538

(13)

[From On Lies, Secrets, and Silence]

Sources

551

(11)

[From Your Native Land, Your Life]

Richard Rodriguez

The Achievement of Desire

562

(26)

[From Hunger of Memory]

Renato Rosaldo

Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

588

(23)

[From Culture and Truth]

Edward Said

States

611

(43)

[From After the Last Sky]

Jane Tompkins

``Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History

654

(22)

[First Appeared in Critical Inquiry]

Alice Walker

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

676

(13)

[From In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens]

John Edgar Wideman

Our Time

689

(42)

[From Brothers and Keepers]

Assignment Sequences

731

(136)

Working with Assignment Sequences

733

(1)

Working with a Sequence

734

(3)

Sequence One The Aims of Education

737

(11)

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Freire The ``Banking'' Concept of Education

Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone

Griffin Our Secret

Assignments

``Self-Possession'' [Adams]

738

(1)

Applying Freire to Your Own Experience as a Student [Freire]

739

(2)

Studying Rich as a Case in Point [Freire, Rich]

741

(1)

Tradition and the Writing of the Past [Rich]

742

(1)

The Contact Zone [Pratt]

743

(1)

The Pedagogical Arts of the Contact Zone [Pratt]

744

(1)

Writing against the Grain [Griffin]

745

(1)

The Task of Attention [Griffin]

746

(1)

Putting Things Together [Adams, Freire, Rich, Pratt, Griffin]

747

(1)

Sequence Two The Arts of the Contact Zone

748

(9)

Pratt The Arts of the Contact Zone

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Anzaldua Entering into the Serpent; How to Tame a Wild Tongue

Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Baldwin Stranger in the Village

Said States

Assignments

The Literate Arts of the Contact Zone [Pratt]

749

(2)

Taking a Position [Pratt, Rosaldo]

751

(1)

Borderlands [Pratt, Anzaldua]

752

(1)

Autoethnography [Pratt, Jacobs]

753

(1)

Writing from Within [Pratt, Baldwin]

754

(1)

A Dialectic of Self and Other [Pratt, Said]

755

(1)

On Culture [Pratt, Rosaldo, Anzaldua, Jacobs, Baldwin, Said]

756

(1)

Sequence Three Autobiographical Explorations

757

(7)

Baldwin Stranger in the Village

Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire

Said States

Tompkins ``Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History

Assignments

Exploring Character [Baldwin]

758

(1)

Autobiographical Exploration [Baldwin]

759

(1)

Desire, Reading, and the Past [Rodriguez]

760

(1)

A Photographic Essay [Said]

761

(1)

Personal Experience as Intellectual Experience [Tompkins]

762

(1)

The ``I'' of the Personal Essay [Baldwin, Rodriguez, Said, Tompkins]

763

(1)

Sequence Four Autobiographical Explorations (II)

764

(6)

Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Wideman Our Time

Phillips Houdini's Box

Assignments

A Moment of Hesitation [Rich]

764

(1)

Hesitation, Again [Rosaldo, Rich]

765

(1)

An Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]

766

(1)

Another Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]

766

(1)

Old Habits [Wideman]

767

(1)

A World Elsewhere [Phillips]

768

(1)

The ``I'' of the Personal Essay [Rich, Rosaldo, Adams, Wideman, Phillips]

768

(2)

Sequence Five Writing with Style

770

(10)

Wideman Our Time

Baldwin Stranger in the Village

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Berger Ways of Seeing

Griffin Our Secret

Phillips Houdini's Box

Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

Assignments

Language, Rhythm, Tone [Wideman]

771

(1)

The Sentence [Baldwin]

772

(1)

Style and the Sentence [Wideman, Baldwin, Adams]

773

(1)

Character, Point of View [Berger]

774

(1)

The Paragraph, the Essay [Griffin]

775

(1)

Style Beyond the Sentence [Phillips]

776

(1)

The Pleasure of the Text [Bordo]

777

(1)

A Classroom Lesson

778

(2)

Sequence Six Truth and Method

780

(9)

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Phillips Houdini's Box

Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

Limerick Haunted America

Assignments

Positioning and Repositioning [Rosaldo]

781

(1)

The Manikin [Adams]

781

(1)

What, Then, Is Truth? [Nietzsche]

782

(1)

Metaphor and the Story of Education [Nietzsche]

783

(1)

Good Directions [Phillips]

784

(1)

Hide and Seek [Phillips, Rosaldo]

785

(1)

Writing as Revision [Rich]

786

(1)

The Laws of Motion [Rich, Adams]

786

(1)

A Twelve-Point Guide to War [Limerick]

787

(1)

The Absolute and the Relative [Rosaldo]

788

(1)

Sequence Seven Experimental Readings and Writings

789

(8)

Griffin Our Secret

Said States

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Wideman Our Time

Anzaldua Entering into the Serpent; How to Tame a Wild Tongue

Baudrillard Utopia Achieved

Assignments

A Mix of Personal and Academic Writing [Griffin]

790

(1)

Unconventional, Hybrid, and Fragmentary Forms [Said]

791

(1)

An Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]

792

(1)

Turning This Way and That [Wideman]

793

(1)

A Crazy Dance [Anzaldua]

794

(1)

Extravagance [Baudrillard]

795

(1)

Writing and Schooling [Griffin, Said, Adams, Wideman, Anzaldua, Baudrillard]

795

(2)

Sequence Eight Experts and Expertise

797

(6)

Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

Geertz Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Wideman Our Time

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Percy The Loss of the Creature

Assignments

Looking Back [Rich]

798

(1)

Seeing Your World through Geertz's Eyes [Geertz]

799

(1)

On Ritual [Rosaldo]

800

(1)

Wideman as a Case in Point [Wideman]

800

(1)

On Experts and Expertise [Rich, Geertz, Wideman, Rosaldo, Percy]

801

(2)

Sequence Nine History and Ethnography: Reading the Lives of Others

803

(8)

Geertz Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Limerick Haunted America

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Wideman Our Time

Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone

Assignments

Ethnography [Geertz]

804

(1)

History [Limerick]

805

(1)

Taking a Position [Rosaldo]

806

(1)

A Writer's Guide [Wideman, Rosaldo, Geertz, Limerick]

807

(1)

Revision [Geertz, Limerick]

807

(1)

Reading Others [Pratt]

808

(1)

Revision (Again) [Geertz, Limerick, Rosaldo, Wideman, Pratt]

809

(2)

Sequence Ten On Difficulty

811

(6)

Foucault Panopticism

Wideman Our Time

Baudrillard Utopia Achieved

Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

Assignments

Foucault's Fabrication [Foucault]

811

(1)

A Story of Reading [Wideman]

812

(1)

Travel Writing [Baudrillard]

813

(1)

Writing the Truth [Nietzsche]

814

(1)

The Pleasures of the Text [Bordo]

815

(1)

A Theory of Difficulty [Foucault, Wideman, Baudrillard, Nietzsche, Bordo]

816

(1)

Sequence Eleven Reading Culture

817

(6)

Berger Ways of Seeing

Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Foucault Panopticism

Assignments

Looking at Pictures [Berger]

818

(1)

Berger and After [Berger, Bordo]

819

(1)

Reading the Body [Bordo]

819

(1)

Reading Ritual [Rosaldo]

820

(1)

On Agency [Berger, Bordo, Rosaldo, Foucault]

821

(1)

Reading Culture [Berger, Bordo, Rosaldo, Foucault]

822

(1)

Sequence Twelve Taking a Position

823

(6)

Rosaldo Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone

Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

Berger Ways of Seeing

Assignments

Positioning and Repositioning [Rosaldo]

824

(1)

The Contact Zone [Rosaldo, Pratt]

824

(1)

The Gaze [Bordo]

825

(1)

Taking a Position [Bordo]

826

(1)

Ways of Seeing [Berger]

827

(1)

Local Context; Local Interest [Rosaldo]

827

(2)

Sequence Thirteen The Uses of Reading

829

(4)

Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire

Hoggart The Scholarship Boy

Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

Berger Ways of Seeing

Said States

Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Bartholomae and Petrosky Introduction to Ways of Reading

Assignments

The Scholarship Boy [Rodriguez, Hoggart]

830

(1)

Sources [Bordo, Berger]

830

(1)

Sources 2 [Said, Nietzsche]

831

(1)

Contrary Instincts [Walker]

832

(1)

Ways of Reading [Bartholomae, Petrosky]

832

(1)

Sequence Fourteen Ways of Seeing

833

(6)

Berger Ways of Seeing

Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body

Assignments

Ways of Seeing [Berger]

833

(1)

A Painting in Writing [Berger]

834

(1)

Berger Writing [Berger]

835

(1)

Writing Berger [Bordo, Berger]

836

(2)

Revision [Berger]

838

(1)

Sequence Fifteen Working with the Past

839

(14)

Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire

Hoggart A Scholarship Boy

Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Said States

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Assignments

A Scholarship Boy [Rodriguez, Hoggart]

840

(8)

A Slave Narrative [Jacobs]

848

(2)

Working with the Past [Walker]

850

(1)

Legacies [Walker, Jacobs]

850

(1)

Writing History [Said]

851

(1)

Learning from the Past [Adams]

852

(1)

Sequence Sixteen A World Elsewhere: Language, History, and Identity

853

(8)

Phillips Houdini's Box

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire

Griffin Our Secret

Anzaldua Entering into the Serpent; How to Tame a Wild Tongue

Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Assignments

A World Elsewhere [Phillips]

854

(1)

The Manikin [Adams]

855

(1)

Hide and Seek/The Tailor and the Manikin [Phillips, Adams, Rodriguez]

856

(1)

The Matrix [Griffin, Phillips, Adams]

857

(1)

La conciencia de la mestiza/Toward a New Consciousness [Anzaldua, Rodriguez]

858

(1)

The Voice of the Unwritten Self [Jacobs]

858

(2)

Back to the Beginning [A Retrospective]

860

(1)

Sequence Seventeen Writing History

861

(3)

Limerick Haunted America

Tompkins ``Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History

Assignments

Haunted America [Limerick]

861

(1)

``'Indians''' [Tompkins]

862

(1)

Writing History [Limerick, Tompkins]

863

(1)

Sequence Eighteen Writing Projects

864

(3)

Said States

Adams The Education of Henry Adams

Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

Wideman Our Time

Assignments

Words and Images [Said]

864

(1)

An Experiment in Autobiography [Adams]

865

(1)

A Project [Rich]

866

(1)

Writing the ``Real'' [Wideman]

866

(1)

Commentary [Said, Adams, Rich, Wideman]

867

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Ways of Reading : An Anthology for Writers

Ways of Reading : An Anthology for Writers

9780312409951

0312409958

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