Research Catalog

Title

The Norton reader : an anthology of nonfiction / Melissa A. Goldthwaite, general editor, Saint Joseph's University, Joseph Bizup, Boston University, John C. Brereton, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University, Linda H. Peterson, Late of Yale University.

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972-
• Bizup, Joseph, 1966-
• Brereton, John C., 1943-
• Fernald, Anne E.
• Peterson, Linda H.

Description

lxi, 641 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The Norton Reader features the largest and most diverse collection of essays, from classic to contemporary--155 in the Full edition, 95 in the Shorter. With 60 new essays almost all written in the last decade, a new ebook option, and a unique companion website that makes the book searchable by theme, genre, rhetorical mode, author, keyword--and more, the Fourteenth Edition is ideal for today?s composition classes.

Subject

• College readers
• English language > Rhetoric > Problems, exercises, etc
• Exposition (Rhetoric) > Problems, exercises, etc
• Report writing > Problems, exercises, etc

Genre/Form

• exercise books.
• Problems and exercises
• Problèmes et exercices.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface to the Shorter Fourteenth Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading and Writing with The Norton Reader.
• PERSONAL ACCOUNTS -- Joan Didion / On Going Home -- Maya Angelou / Graduation -- Lars Eighner / On Dumpster Diving -- Alice Walker / Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self -- Joey Franklin / Working at Wendy's.
• PROFILES -- Scott Russell Sanders / Under the Influence -- Annie Dillard / from an American Childhood -- Toni Morrison / Strangers -- Judith Ortiz Cofer / More Room -- Ian Frazier / Take the F -- E.B. White / Once More to the Lake.
• GENDER AND HUMAN NATURE -- Anna Quindlen / Between the Sexes, a Great Divide -- Sojourner Truth / Ain't I a Woman? -- Roxane Gay / A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories -- Henry Petroski / Falling Down Is Part of Growing Up -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross / On the Fear of Death.
• CULTURAL ANALYSIS -- Annie Leonard / The Story of Bottled Water -- Tom Bissell / Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter -- Bill McKibben / The Case for Single-Child Families -- Jessica Mitford / Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / In the Kitchen -- Brent Staples / Black Men and Public Space.
• FOOD -- Marion Nestle / Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill -- JJ Goode / Single-Handed Cooking -- M.F.K. Fisher / Young Hunger -- Lad Tobin / Here Everything Is Possible -- Dan Barry / Back When a Chocolate Puck Tasted, Guiltily, Like America -- Chris Wiewiora / This Is Tossing.
• SPORTS -- Roger Angell / The Interior Stadium -- Michael Lewis / from The Blind Side -- David Halberstam / Jordan's Moment -- Maya Angelou / Champion of the World -- Joyce Carol Oates / Rape and the Boxing Ring.
• OP-EDS -- Anna Quindlen / Stuff Is Not Salvation -- Tim Kreider / The "Busy" Trap -- Molly Ivins / Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns -- David Epstein / Sports Should Be Child's Play -- Jane McGonigal / Be a Gamer, Save the World -- Dan Barber / What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong.
• EDUCATION -- Frederick Douglass / Learning to Read -- Lynda Barry / The Sanctuary of School -- Gerald Graff / Hidden Intellectualism -- Jonathan Kozol / Fremont High School -- Caroline Bird / College Is a Waste of Time of Money -- William Zinsser / College Pressures -- Mike Rose Blue-Collar Brilliance.
• LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION -- Maxine Hong Kingston / Tongue-Tied -- Richard Rodriguez / Aria --! Gloria Anzaldua / How to Tame a Wild Tongue -- Benjamin Franklin / Learning to Write -- Stephen King / On Writing -- George Orwell / Politics and the English Language.
• NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- John McPHee / Under the Snow -- Brian Doyle / Joyas Voladoras -- Chief Seattle / Letter to President Pierce, 1855 -- Terry Tempest Williams / The Clan of One-Breasted Women.
• MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY -- Nicholas Carr / Is Google Making Us Stupid? -- Eula Biss / Time and Distance Overcome -- Tasneem Raja / Is Coding the New Literacy? -- Judith Newman / To Siri, with Love: How One Boy wtih Autism Became BFF with Apple's Siri -- Dennis Baron / Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns.
• ETHICS -- Mark Twain / Advice to Youth -- Peter Singer / What Should a Billionaire Give--and What Should You? -- Atul Gawande / When Doctors Make Mistakes -- Michael Pollan / An Animal's Place -- Sallie Tisdale / We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story -- David Eagleman / The Brain on Trial.
• HISTORY AND POLITICS -- George Orwell / Shooting an Elephant -- Jonathan Swift / A Modest Proposal -- Niccolo Machiavelli / The Morals of the Prince -- Henry David Thoreau / The Battle of the Ants -- Thomas Jefferson and Others / The Declaration of Independence -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions -- Abraham Lincoln / Second Inaugural Address -- John F. Kennedy / Inaugural Address.
• SCIENCE -- Thomas S. Kuhn / The route to Normal Science -- Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow / The (Elusive) Theory of Everything -- Stephen Jay Gould / Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs -- Rebecca Skloot / The Woman in the Photograph -- Alan Lightman / Our Place in the Universe: Face to Face with the Infinite.
• LITERATURE AND THE ARTS -- Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings -- Vladimir Nabokov / Good Readers and Good Writers -- Virginia Woolf / In Search of a Room of One's Own -- Michael Chabon / Kid's Stuff -- Scott McCloud / from Understanding Comics -- Michael Hamad / Song Schematics.
• PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION -- Langston Hughes / Salvation -- Barack Obama / Eulogy for Clementa Pinckney -- Christopher Hitchens / When the King Saved God -- Henry David Thoreau / Where I Lived, and What I Lived For -- Virginia Woolf / The Death of the Moth -- Annie Dillard / Sight into Insight -- Plato / The Allegory of the Cave -- Jesus / Parables of the Kingdom -- Zen Parables / Muddy Road, A Parable, Learning to Be Silent.

ISBN

• 0393617416
• 9780393617412

OCLC

986222609

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library