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The Millennium Reader

by: Hirschberg, Stuart; Hirschberg, Terry

The Millennium Reader

by: Hirschberg, Stuart; Hirschberg, Terry

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9780136017387
ISBN 10:
013601738X
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/18/2008
Publisher: Longman

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Distinguished by the quality of writing and the variety of selections, this thematic reader identifies and collects some of the most important insights, discoveries, and reflections of the past millennia as produced by its most noteworthy writers and through a variety of genres. In addition, it introduces students to major traditions in essay writing and other genres and provides guidance in developing critical reading and writing skills.

Rhetorical Contents	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: Reading in the VariousGenres	p. 1
Reading Essays	p. 1
Reading Fiction	p. 20
Reading Poetry	p. 22
Reading Drama	p. 23
Literary Works in Context	p. 25
Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts	p. 26
Elements of Design	p. 27
Reading Images as Cultural Signs	p. 30
Reflections on Experience	p. 33
NonfictionGeorge Orwell Shooting an Elephant	p. 34
Betty	p. 40
Number One!	p. 50
Boyhood with Gurdjieff	p. 54
West with the Night	p. 58
Just Say No to Rugs	p. 68
Initiated into an IbanTribe of Headhunters	p. 70
Rumenotomy on a Cow	p. 75
Fiction
The Pilgrimage	p. 77
The Fat Girl	p. 85
Poetry
Browning How Do I Love Thee?	p. 97
The Solitary	p. 98
Nikki Giovanni Nikki-Rosa	p. 99
Connections for Chapter 1:Reflections on Experience	p. 100
Memorable People and Places	p. 102
Nonfiction
Liked for Myself	p. 103
Antidisestablishmentarianism	p. 107
My Brother, Gary Gilmore	p. 114
Moonlit Nights of Laughter	p. 125
A Hole in the World	p. 130
Turning Point	p. 134
A Fitting Desire	p. 141
Thinking Like a Mountain	p. 143
Fiction
Carver Neighbors	p. 146
Cheever Reunion	p. 151
Poetry
Those Winter Sundays	p. 154
A Grave	p. 155
At the Ball Game	p. 157
Connections for Chapter 2:Memorable People and Places	p. 160
The Value of Education	p. 162
NonfictionFrederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write	p. 163
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society	p. 168
The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome	p. 175
On Becoming a Chicano	p. 181
Learning What Was Never Taught	p. 188
Nat Hentoff "Speech Codes" on the Campus	p. 197
Civilize Them with a Stick	p. 204
Judy Blume Is Harry Potter Evil?	p. 211
Lessons	p. 213
Fiction
The First Day	p. 219
Poetry
Workday	p. 223
Did I Miss Anything?	p. 225
Connections for Chapter 3:The Value of Education	p. 227
Perspectives on Language	p. 228
Nonfiction
The Day Language Came into My Life	p. 229
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures	p. 231
Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation	p. 236
George Lakoff Anger	p. 241
The Language of Clothes	p. 250
Mother Tongue	p. 256
Propaganda under a Dictatorship	p. 261
The Rhetoric of Advertising	p. 267
Fiction
Who's Irish?	p. 276
Poetry
Permanently	p. 285
Connections for Chapter 4:Perspectives on Language	p. 288
Everyday Matters	p. 289
Nonfiction
The Culture of Consumerism	p. 290
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