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Title:

The best American essays / edited and with an introduction by Robert Atwan.

Edition:

College ed., 4th ed.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xx, 428 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

American essays--20th century.

Other Authors:

Atwan, Robert.

Notes:

"Fourth college edition"--Cover. Includes index.

Contents:

The essay's unlimited possibilities / Introduction: Encountering the essay -- Prologue: Essayists on the essay -- What is an essay? / Annie Dillard. Resisting definitions / Jamaica Kincaid -- The ideal essay / Alan Lightman -- The essay as object / Ian Frazier -- The essay as action / Ian Frazier -- Essays and the real world / Annie Dillard -- No standard essay / Joseph Epstein -- The essay's diversity / Susan Sontag -- The memorable essay / Joyce Carol Oates -- The author's gumption / Justin Kaplan -- Essays and the imagination / Cynthia Ozick -- Essays versus articles / Cynthia Ozick -- Essays versus stories / Annie Dillard - Essays versus poems / Annie Dillard -- Essays are not scientific documents / Edward Hoagland -- The essayist's defensiveness / Susan Sontag -- On being an essayist / Joseph Epstein -- Essayists must tell the truth / Geoffrey Wolff -- The essayist's voice / Susan Sontag -- The demands of the first person singular / Tracy Kidder -- The "who cares" factor / Geoffrey Wolff -- What "confessional writing" must do / Stephen Jay Gould -- How the essayist acquires authority / Edward Hoagland -- The conversational style / Joseph Epstein -- The essay as dialogue / Kathleen Norris -- The attractions of autobiography / Tracy Kidder -- The essayist's audience / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Essays start out in magazines / Susan Sontag -- On certain magazine interviews / Gay Talese -- Listening to people think / Gay Talese -- On the subjects of essays / Elizabeth Hardwick -- The essay's unlimited possibilities / Annie Dillard.
[section] 3. Index of authors. The telephone / Garry Wills -- Hair / Marcia Aldrich -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In the kitchen / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy -- The blue machinery of summer / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Book marks / Rebecca McLanahan -- Silk parachute / John McPhee -- Merced / Danielle Ofri -- The inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan -- [section] 2. The attentive mind : observation, reflection, insight -- Turning point / Rudolph Chelminski -- The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard -- Spring / Gretel Ehrlich -- Mail / Anne Fadman -- A lovely sort of lower purpose / Ian Frazier -- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman -- The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Matriculation fixation / Joe Queenan -- All in Havana / Gay Talese -- The disposable rocket / John Updike -- [section] 3. The public sphere : advocacy, argument, controversy -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- Think about it / Frank Conroy -- Shouting "Fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Who shot Johnny? / Debra Dickerson -- Who we are / David Halberstam -- What's wrong with animal rights / Vicki Hearne -- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Exquisite corpse / Ashraf Rushdy -- The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Seele -- The killing game / Joy Williams -- The dramaturgy od death / Garry Wills -- Alternative arrangements -- Rhetorical modes -- Some literary and journalistic techniques -- Contemporary issues -- Index of authors.

ISBN:

9780618333707 (pbk.)
0618333703 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53149101

LCCN:

2002116630

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)