The Winchester Reader
By: edited by Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan.
Contributors: McQuade, Donald.; Atwan, Robert.
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1006
Subjects: College readers.; English language -- Rhetoric.
Notes: "Bedford books."
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface for instructors --; title: Part one: the first-person singular --; title: Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher --; title: On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion --; title: Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte --; title: On keeping a diary / William Safire --; title: Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane --; title: Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass --; title: Gumption / Russell Baker --; title: Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan --; title: Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep --; title: Shooting an elephant / George Orwell --; title: Salvation / Langston Hughes --; title: A & P [story] / John Updike --; title: Places in the heart : Edward Abbey, D.H. Lawrence, Eudora Welty --; title: Once more to the lake / E.B. White --; title: The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich --; title: Ringgold Street / David Bradley --; title: The power of names : William Shakespeare, Haig A. Bosmajian, Booker T. Washington, Lucien Levy-Bruhl --; title: "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou --; title: Names / Mary McCarthy --; title: Seeing the elephant / Paul Gruchow --; title: Divided identities : Erik H. Erikson, Jan Clausen, Gloria Anzaldua --; title: Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda --; title: Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich --; title: On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele --; title: Part two: the social fabric --; title: What is an American? : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Enrique Lopez --; title: What is an American? / J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur --; title: America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed --; title: More than just a shrine : paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis island / Mary Gordon --; title: Bridging distances : Lewis Thomas, E.M. Forster, Cherrie Moraga, R.D. Laing --; title: Stranger in the village / James Baldwin --; title: Distancing the homeless / Jonathan Kozol --; title: Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots : in the company of the mentally retarded / Sallie Tisdale --; title: Affirmations of love : Michael Denneny, Rose Weitz, Sigmund Freud --; title: The madness and myths of homophobia / George Weinberg --; title: Territory [story] / David Leavitt --; title: Don't tell me you don't know [story] / Dorothy Allison --; title: Crises of adolescence : Margaret Mead, Gail Sheehy, Laurence Steinberg --; title: From Teenagers in crisis / David Elkind --; title: Shopping [story] / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: A national obsession : Neil Postman, Pauline Kael, Maurine Doerken, Daniel J. Boorstin --; title: TV addition / Marie Winn --; title: Crack and the box / Pete Hamill --; title: Family stories : Clyde Edgerton, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Kittredge, Alex Haley --; title: Stories make a family / Elizabeth Stone --; title: Casa: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer --; title: No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston --; title: Granddaddy / Itabari Njeri --; title: Part three : everyday life --; title: Anxieties of appearance : Louis Harris, Nellie Wong, Arthur Schopenhauer --; title: Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker --; title: A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron --; title: At war with my skin / John Updike --; title: Public space : Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Liu Binyan, Fran Lebowitz --; title: Territorial behavior / Desmond Morris --; title: Unfair game / Susan Jacoby --; title: Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples --; title: On holidays : Charles Dickens, Jeijun, Gwendolyn Brooks --; title: Happy New Year? / Russell Baker --; title: Ode to Thanksgiving / Michael Arlen --; title: On holidays and how to make them work / Nikki Giovanni --; title: Consumer culture : Thorstein Veblen, Sir Thomas More, Ellen Willis --; title: Kids in the mall : growing up controlled / William Severini Kowinski --; title: Shopping and other spiritual adventures in America today / Phyllis Rose --; title: The lesson [story] / Toni Cade Bambara --; title: The national pastime : Eve Babitz, Roger Angell, Elting E. Morison, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello --; title: Baseball : the ineffable national pastime / Gerald Early --; title: From father, with love / Doris Kearns Goodwin --; title: My baseball years / Philip Roth --; title: Part four : perspectives on gender --; title: The feminist movement today : Barbara Ehrenreich, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Rosario Morales, Audre Lorde --; title: Who says we haven't made a revolution? : a feminist takes stock / Vivian Gornick --; title: Feminisim: a transformational politic / bell hooks --; title: A letter to Matthew / Nancy Mairs --; title: Mothers : Marguerite Duras, Russell Baker, Marilyn French --; title: Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / Gloria Steinem --; title: In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker --; title: Mothers and sons / Barbara Lazear Ascher --; title: Fathers : Robert Frost, Mary-Lou Weisman, Alice Walker --; title: Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Bridging [story] / Max Apple --; title: Fathering [story] / Bharati Mukherjee --; title: Gender roles and stereotypes : Germaine Greer, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, David M. Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers --; title: How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes / Alexis de Tocqueville --; title: The woman of the future / Thomas Edison --; title: Girl [story] / Jamaica Kincaid --; title: The wimp factor / Bruce Curtis --; title: Resistance to stereotypes : Rita Mae Brown, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Paul Theroux --; title: Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf --; title: I want a wife / Judy Brady --; title: Mr. President / Bob Greene --; title: Conflicting loyalties : Olga Silverstein, Vivian Gornick, Terry Allen Kupers --; title: Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan --; title: Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen --; title: The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders --; title: Part five : enduring issues --; title: Declarations of independence : John Locke, Barbara C. Jordan, Mary Wollstonecraft --; title: The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson --; title: Declaration of independence of the democratioc republic of Viet-Nam / Ho Chi Minh --; title: Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --; title: I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. --; title: The debate on abortion : Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Anna Quindlen, Ernest Hemingway, Florynce C. Kennedy --; title: A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson --; title: What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer --; title: Putting women back into the abortion debate / Ellen Willis --; title: Freedom of expression : Michel de Montaigne, Carl L. Becker, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor --; title: The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann --; title: 2 live crew, decoded / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --; title: Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller --; title: Denigrating the species / H.L. Mencken, Taylor Caldwell, Thomas Hobbes --; title: A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --; title: Confession of faith / Fyodor Dostoyevsky --; title: The damned human race / Mark Twain --; title: Visions of the land : Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Noel Perrin, Brigid Brophy --; title: From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau --; title: The journey's end / Wendell Berry --; title: A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday --; title: Environmental action : Joy Williams, Aldo Leopold, J.E. Lovelock --; title: Natural man / Lewis Thomas --; title: Ecofeminism : our roots and flowering / Charlene Spretnak --; title: Women, home, and community : the struggle in an urban environment --; title: Part six : the power of language --; title: The languages of home : Barbara Mellix, Richard Rodriguez, An-Thu Quang Nguyen, Edmund Wilson --; title: The language of home / John Edgar Wideman --; title: From the poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall --; title: From A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston --; title: The loudest voice [story] / Grace Paley --; title: Bilingualism : Tina Bakka, S.I. Hayakawa, Oscar Hijuelos --; title: Toward an American language / Richard Rodriguez --; title: Viva bilingualism / James Fallows --; title: Language and politics : Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin --; title: Politics and the English language / George Orwell --; title: Words on words / Vaclav Havel --; title: Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan --; title: The power of metaphor : Aristotle, Jacob Bronowski, Cynthia Ozick, Judy Ruiz --; title: From Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson --; title: From AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag --; title: Fighting words : Barbara Lawrence, Charles R. Lawrence, E. Digby Baltzell --; title: Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa --; title: A question of language / Gloria Naylor --; title: The WASP sting / Anne Roiphe --; title: Part seven : the pleasures of the mind --; title: Sight into insight : Helen Keller, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Hoggart --; title: Seeing / Annie Dillard --; title: The stone horse / Barry Lopez --; title: The loss of the creature / Walker Percy --; title: The unexpected universe : Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Carl Sandburg --; title: Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould --; title: The star thrower / Loren Eiseley --; title: Much ado about nothing / K.C. Cole --; title: Understanding horror : Stephen King, William James, Richard Wright --; title: The tell-tale heart [story] / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: In pursuit of pure horror / Harper's Magazine --; title: Origins : Robert Graves, Barbara C. Sproul, Isaac Bashevis Singer --; title: From Symposium / Plato --; title: Chapters one, two, and three / Genesis --; title: The time when there were no people on the earth plain / Bering Strait Eskimo creation myth --; title: The search for truth : Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Woody Allen --; title: Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon --; title: Stripping the mind of its beliefs / Rene Descartes --; title: Emptiness / Shunryu Suzuki --; title: Why we write : George Orwell, Toni Cade Bambara, Annie Dillard --; title: Why it write / Joan Didion / Nurturing resistance / Bernice Johnson Reagon --; title: I write for revenge against reality / Francine du Plessiz Gray --; title: B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca [story] / Rudolfo A. Anaya --; title: The act of reading : Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Edna Buchanan --; title: From Black boy / Richard Wright --; title: A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty --; title: Four kinds of reading / Donald Hall --; title: The art of reading / Lin Yutang --; title: The writers.