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This title in other editionsLife Studiesby David Cavitch
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Publisher Comments:- 80 engaging selections (25 new) by some of the best contemporary writers, including John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, Henry Louis Gates, and Diane Ackerman, provide a rich blend of essays and short fiction, and offer a balance of personal and analytical writing. This edition now includes at least one academic or documented essay in every chapter to introduce students to the kind of writing they will encounter throughout their college careers. - Themes relevant to students' lives. A great strength of Life Studies has always been its ability to spark excellent writing by encouraging students to think freshly about topics they find personally relevant. Each of the tightly focused units addresses a different aspect of contemporary life, moving outward from images of ourselves, to our relationships with others, to dilemmas over moral issues that affect us all. - The finely honed editorial apparatus has been revised to offer more help to students as they move from personal to analytical writing. The well-crafted questions that follow each selection and the carefully refined writing assignments lead students to approach texts critically and consider the writer's methods and strategies. Insights (brief, provocative epigraphs and poems) begin each unit and provide additional discussion and writing opportunities — Two Forums (multiple selections linked by questions and writing assignments) expose students to the give and take of academic debate. Synopsis:This classic thematic reader helps students move from personal to analytical writing by engaging them with essays and fiction relevant to their lives. About the AuthorDAVID CAVITCH is a professor of English at Tufts University, where he was formerly chair of the English department. He has taught composition at the University of California at Riverside, Idaho State University, the University of New Mexico, and Smith College. Cavitch is the author of highly regarded critical studies of D. H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman and the editor of The Springfield Reader (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997). Table of Contents Preface for Instructors
Introduction: Finding a Trail *Bernard Cooper, The Fine Art of Sighing 1. Self-Images INSIGHTS: D. H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, N. Scott Momaday (poem), Rom Harré, Fay Weldon, *Daniel Traister, Golda Meir, *Joyce Carol Oates Nora Ephron, Shaping Up Absurd *Anthony Walton, Hamburger Terry Galloway, I'm Listening as Hard As I Can Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space *Nan Levinson, The Sad Pleasure of Travel *Garry Trudeau, My Inner Shrimp Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (fiction) Andrew Sullivan, What Is a Homosexual? 2. Family Ties INSIGHTS: Robert Nisbet, Ferdinand Mount, Mavis Gallant, J. H. Plumb, Gloria Steinem, Robert Hayden (poem), Robert Weiss Thomas Simmons, Motorcycle Talk Raymond Carver, My Father's Life *bell hooks, Inspired Eccentricity Calvin Trillin, It's Just Too Late Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (fiction) *Debra Spark, Last Things Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Women and the Future of Fatherhood Amitai Etzioni, The Value of Families 3. Significant Others INSIGHTS: François de La Rochefoucauld, Simone de Beauvoir, Walker Percy, Selma Fraiberg, Francesco Alberoni, Sharon Olds (poem), D. T. Suzuki Susan Allen Toth, Boyfriends Stephen Dunn, Locker Room Talk Diane Ackerman, The Chemistry of Love *Meghan Daum, On the Fringes of the Physical World *Steve Tesich, Focusing on Friends Patricia J. Williams, My Best White Friend *Leslie Lawrence, Propelled by Love Jonathan Rauch, For Better or Worse? Raymond Carver, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (fiction) 4. Group Pictures INSIGHTS: John Donne, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodor Reik, W. E. B. DuBois, Emma Lazarus (poem), Oscar Wilde, Alexis de Tocqueville, *Andrew Hacker, Judith Martin Amy Tan, Mother Tongue Henry Louis Gates, In the Kitchen *Andrew M. Greeley, Why Do Catholics Stay in the Church? Because of the Stories Michael Dorris, Life Stories Shelby Steele, On Being Black and Middle Class *Camilo José Vergara, The Ghetto Cityscape Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, The Burden of Race Alice Walker, Everyday Use (fiction) *5. Learning Curves INSIGHTS: D. H. Lawrence, William Cory, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edith Hamilton, *Stephen L. Carter, Philip Levine (poem), Richard Wright Maya Angelou, Graduation Maxine Hong Kingston, The Misery of Silence Helen Vendler, Knowing Poems Pico Iyer, In Praise of the Humble Comma Richard Rodriguez, Public and Private Language *Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences *Neil Postman, The Necessity of Myths George Steiner, Books and the End of Literature Ha Jin, Ocean of Words (fiction) 6. Work Rules INSIGHTS: Vince Lombardi, Wilfred Sheed, Margaret Lowe Benston, Nikki Giovanni, Marie Curie, Vincent Van Gogh, *Martín Espada (poem) Abigail Witherspoon, This Pen for Hire Gary Soto, Black Hair John Updike, A&P (fiction) Peter Schwendener, Reflections of a Bookstore Type Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women *Francine D'Amico, Women Warriors *FORUM: Work and Power Laura L. Nash, The Virtual Job Ian Angell, Winners and Losers in the Information Age *Barbara Ehrenreich, Warning: This Is a Rights-Free Workplace 7. Possessions INSIGHTS: Matthew 19:24, Henry David Thoreau, Edna O'Brien, Henry James, Colette, *Peter Stallybrass, Andrew Carnegie, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Wilbur (poem) Harry Crews, The Car E. M. Forster, My Wood *James B. Twitchell, Two Cheers for Materialism Holly Brubach, Mail Order America *Lars Eighner, Dumpster Diving William Ian Miller, Gifts and Honor: An Exchange Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson (fiction) Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, Chocolate and Divinity 8. Media Images INSIGHTS: Mark Crispin Miller, Ruth Rosen, Gerald Early, Louis Menand, Louise Erdrich (poem) *Anthony Lane, The Shipping News *Gregg Easterbrook, Watch and Learn Kurt Andersen, Animation Nation Ellen Ullman, Getting Close to the Machine Wendy Lesser, The Conversion *Francine Prose, A Wasteland of One's Own Robert Goodman, The Luck Business Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (fiction) Andrea Dworkin, Letter from a War Zone 9. Dilemmas INSIGHTS: E. M. Forster, Alan Wolfe, George Orwell, Karl Menninger, Margaret Mead, Robert Frost (poem), Agnes De Mille Sallie Tisdale, We Do Abortions Here *K. C. Cole, Calculated Risks Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal *Joy Williams, Our Brutality to Animals George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Bel Kaufman, Sunday in the Park John Hoberman, Steroids and Sports Leon R. Kass, The Moral Repugnance of Cloning *FORUM: Guns and Aims *Steve Salerno, Leave Him Alone *Benjamin Spock, Should Children Play with Guns? *Daniel Lazare, Your Constitution Is Killing You
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