Short Prose Reader

12 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-353314-8
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

This rhetorically organized reader, maintains the best features of the earlier editions: lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading courses. In working through the text, the student progresses from key aspects of the writing and reading processes to chapters on the essential patterns of writing and then to more rigorous forms of analysis and argument. Each chapter provides diverse and lively prose models suited for discussion, analysis, and imitation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muller, Gilbert H.

Muller, Gilbert

Wiener, Harvey S.

Wiener, Harvey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Short Prose Reader 12/eContentsThematic ContentsPrefaceChapter 1 On WritingJennifer Lee I Think, Therefore IMA journalist and author explains how text messaging, Weblogs, and e-mail are changing the ways students write—and driving some teachers to distraction. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. How to Write with StyleOne of America’s most imaginative authors offers young writers the secrets of his success. William Zinsser SimplicityAccording to this writer-teacher, “clutter is the disease of American writing.” We must, Zinsser declares, simplify. Amy Tan Mother Tongue (Mixing Patterns)Novelist Amy Tan explains how her writing style achieved both passion and simplicity when she learned to value the criticism of her mother, who said after reading her daughter’s novel, “So easy to read.” Summing Up: Chapter 1From Seeing to WritingChapter 2 On ReadingJudith Ortiz CoferVolarA Latina writer recalls how reading helped her overcome her childhood circumstances. Malcolm X Prison Studies “Reading had changed forever the course of my life,” writes Malcolm X, who explains movingly how reading is both an activity of love and a tool of power. Ellen Tashie Frisina “See Spot Run”: Teaching My Grandmother to ReadThe writer recalls the pleasure she found in smuggling home grade-school books so that she could teach her 70-year-old Greek grandmother to read. Norman Mailer One Idea (Mixing Patterns)This literary celebrity lashes out at television and the disastrous effect commercials have had on students’ reading abilities. Summing Up: Chapter 2From Seeing to WritingChapter 3 DescriptionDiane Ackerman Farewell to Summer and Its Buzzing CreaturesAn award-winning poet and essayist bids good-bye to a season and its passing signs. Annie Dillard In the JungleAn acclaimed nature writer discovers in the Ecuadorian jungle the depths of experience that can be found in “the middle of nowhere.” Maxine Hong Kingston Catfish in the BathtubSquirming turtles, swimming catfish, pungent skunks, city pigeons: Why did Kingston’s mother bring the culture of China to their California kitchen? Suzanne Berne My Ticket to the Disaster (Mixing Patterns)A novelist evokes a puzzling and emotional visit to the site of the destroyed World Trade towers. Summing Up: Chapter 3From Seeing to WritingChapter 4 NarrationElizabeth Wong The Struggle to Be an All-American GirlIn a narrative of her youth, a writer remembers her efforts to obtain “a cultural divorce” from the heritage into which she was born. Langston Hughes SalvationOne of America’s foremost poets tells of his childhood disillusionment as he struggled desperately to see Jesus. David Sedaris Let It SnowHumorist and storyteller David Sedaris turns to his childhood and recounts a strange winter day when his mother sent him and his sisters out to play. George Orwell A Hanging (Mixing Patterns)The renowned author of Animal Farm and 1984 discovers how precious human life is as he tells of witnessing an execution in Burma. “It is curious,” he recalls, “but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man.” Summing Up: Chapter 4From Seeing to WritingChapter 5 Process AnalysisBill Bryson Your New ComputerEver been confused by the owner’s manual that came with electronic equipment? Well, Bryson’s instructions are even more frustrating. Nora Ephron How to Foil a Terrorist Plot in Seven Simple StepsA popular essay

Über Autor(innen)

Muller, Gilbert
Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery OConnor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes, and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Mullers awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.

Wiener, Harvey
Harvey S. Wiener is currently affiliated with Marymount Manhattan College after serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Adelphi University. Previously University Dean for Academic Affairs, the City University of New York, he was founding president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Dr. Wiener is the author of many books on reading and writing for college students and their teachers, including The Writing Room (Oxford, 1981). He is co-author of The McGraw-Hill College Handbook, a reference grammar and rhetoric text. Dr. Wiener has chaired the Teaching of Writing Division of the Modern Language Association (1987). He has taught writing at every level of education from elementary school to graduate school. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. Dr. Wiener has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the Exxon Education Foundation.