Introduction to Critical Reading
by McCraney, LeahFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-21
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
A unique college reading text that presents works of poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters.
Table of Contents
| POETRY | |
| Kristine Batey,Lot's Wife | |
| Genesis 19:12-26. E | |
| A | |
| Robinson, Richard Cory | |
| Alden Nowlan, Warren Pryor | |
| Robert Frost,The Road Not Taken | |
| Langston Hughes, I, Too | |
| Langston Hughes, Harlem | |
| Langston Hughes, Mother to Son | |
| Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays | |
| Roland Flint, Austere | |
| Gary Soto, A Red Palm | |
| Rita Dove, Daystar | |
| Nikki Giovanni, Once a Lady Told Me | |
| Craig Raine, A Martian Sends A Postcard Home | |
| George Macbeth, Bedtime Story | |
| Donald Justice, Counting the Mad | |
| Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest sense | |
| Edgar Lee Masters, Four Poems from Spoon River Anthology | |
| Minerva Jones, Indignation' Jones, Doctor Meyers, Mrs | |
| Meyers | |
| Robin Flowers, trans, Pangur Ban | |
| Seamus Heaney, Digging | |
| Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll | |
| M | |
| Carl Holman, Mr | |
| Z | |
| Howard Nemerov, The Vacuum | |
| Alden Nowlan, Weakness | |
| Adrienne Rich, Power | |
| William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Innocence | |
| William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Experience | |
| Howard Nemerov, Learning by Doing | |
| Maxine Kumin, Woodchucks | |
| Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing | |
| Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est | |
| Robert Frost, Mending Wall | |
| Cathy Song, Lost Sister | |
| W | |
| H | |
| Auden, The Unknown Citizen | |
| Alastair Reid, Curiosity | |
| Robert Graves, The Naked and the Nude | |
| A | |
| E | |
| Housman, Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff | |
| FICTION | |
| Katharine Brush, Birthday Party | |
| Shirley Jackson, The Lottery | |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr | |
| Harrison Bergeron | |
| Jess Mowry, Crusader Rabbit | |
| James Thurber, The Catbird Seat | |
| Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
| Ray Bradbury, The Veldt | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimple the Fool | |
| Eudora Welty, A Worn Path | |
| Katherine Anne Porter, He | |
| Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing | |
| Andre Dubus, The Fat Girl | |
| Joyce Carol Oates, Life After High School | |
| Barbara Kingsolver, Islands on the Moon | |
| Gish Jen, What Means Switch | |
| Alice Walker, A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring | |
| William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily | |
| John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums | |
| ESSAYS | |
| Dick Gregory, Shame | |
| Randall Williams, Daddy Tucked the Blanket | |
| George Orwell, A Hanging | |
| Amy Tan, Mother Tongue | |
| Kurt Wiesenfeld, Making the Grade | |
| George Will, What is Child Pornography? Ann Coulter, Disgusting Doesn't Make It Speech | |
| Leonard Pitts, Should a Man Be Put in Jail for What He's Thinking? | |
| Jill Neimark, Why We Need Miss America | |
| Cynthia Fox, Starved Out | |
| Deborah Gregory, Heavy Judgement | |
| Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | |
| Nancy Gibbs, When Is It Rape? | |
| Molly Ivins, Time for a Change | |
| Joseph A | |
| Califano, Legalization Of Narcotics: Myths And Reality | |
| Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
| D | |
| Stanley Eitzen, Violent Crime: Myths, Facts, and Solutions | |
| TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS | |
| Joseph R | |
| Conlin, The Presidency in Crisis" from The American Past: A Survey of American History | |
| Louis E | |
| Boone and David L | |
| Kurtz, Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, from Contemporary Business |
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