Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15 [Paperback]

John Clifford (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0070113963 | ISBN-13: 978-0070113961 | Publication Date: January 1, 1993 | Edition: 3 Sub

"Modern American Prose", Third Edition, includes four essays by each of fifteen major American essayists, and one essay by each of fifteen American writers, allowing students to see the range of a writer's work and the creative nature of the essay. Excellent rhetorical apparatus (introductions and questions) provides a means to more analytical and evaluative reading. The broad collection of writers and works gives students an introduction to the nature and power of the essay as a genre, plus a better sense of writers' individual and varied voices.

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Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976). Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women's Voices; Like Season'd Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997).

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• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 3 Sub edition (January 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070113963
• ISBN-13: 978-0070113961
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
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5.0 out of 5 stars Table of Contents (Assorted Authors), May 21, 2004

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction.

2. James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes, The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American, If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?, Notes of a Native Son.

3. Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, Why I Write, On Keeping a Notebook.

4. Annie Dillard, Jest and Earnest, Living Like Weasels, Transfiguration, Skating, The Writing Life.

5. Loren Eiseley, The Long Loneliness, The Judgment of the Birds, The Dance of the Frogs, The Running Man.

6. Ellen Goodman, On Being a Journalist, The Company Man, It's Failure, Not Success, The Tapestry of Friendships, In the Male Direction.

7. Stephen Jay Gould, Prologue, Flaws in a Victorian Veil, Woman's Brains, Evolution as Fact and Theory.

8. Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman, On Discovery, The Wild Man of the Green Swamp, Silence.

9. Barry Lopez, The Stone Horse, The Clamor of Justification, Children in the Woods, Perspective.

10. John McPhee, Los Angeles Against the Mountains, Pirates, Stowaways, Drugs, The Pineys, The Swiss at War.

11. Richard Selzer, The Pen and the Scalpel, The Knife, The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold, Imelda.

12. Lewis Thomas, The Iks, The Lives of a Cell, The Tucson Zoo, To Err Is Human, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

13. Barbara Tuchman, In Search of History, The Idea and the Deed, The Black Death, Is History a Guide to the Future?

14. Alice Walker, Brothers and Sisters, Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self,In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.

15. E.B. White, The Essayist, The Sea and the Wind That Blows, Death of a Pig, The Ring of Time, Once More to the Lake.

16. Tom Wolfe, Las Vegas, Only One Life, The Pump House Gang, The Right Stuff.

17. Other Voices: Wendel Berry, Feminism, the Body, and the Machine.

Gretel Ehrlich, Friends, Foes, and Working Animals.

Louise Erdrich, Forward to The Broken Cord.

Mary Gordon, The Parable of the Cove; or, In Praise of Watercolors.

Edward Hoagland, What I Think, What I Am.

Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me.

Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream.

Norman Mailer, The Siege of Chicago.

Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple.

Maile Meloy, The Voice of the Looking-glass.

N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain.

Joyce Carol Dates, Macho Time. Richard Rodriguez, Complexion.

Philip Roth, Safe at Home.

Susan Sontag, on AIDS.

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