Best American essays of the century
Best American essays of the century
- Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 2000
- xxviii,596p. 24 cm.
Foreword / Introduction / 1901: Corn-pone Opinions / 1903: Of the Coming of John / 1906: A Law of Acceleration / 1909: Stickeen / 1910: The Moral Equivalent of War / 1911: The Handicapped / 1912: Coatesville / 1916: The Devil Baby at Hull-House / 1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent / 1923: Pamplona in July / 1925: The Hills of Zion / 1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me / 1933: The Old Stone House / 1935: What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them / 1936: The Crack-Up / 1937: Sex Ex Machina / 1937: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch / 1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / 1939: The Figure a Poem Makes / 1941: Once More to the Lake / 1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away / 1949: Bop / 1950: The Future Is Now / 1953: Artists in Uniform / 1955: The Marginal World / 1955: Notes of a Native Son / 1956: The Brown Wasps / 1957: A Sweet Devouring / 1961: A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails / 1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail / 1964: Putting Daddy On / 1964: Notes on "Camp" / 1966: Perfect Past / 1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain / 1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King / 1969: Illumination Rounds / 1970: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / 1971: The Lives of a Cell / 1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens / 1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking / 1975: No Name Woman / 1975: Looking for Zora / 1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying / 1979: The White Album / 1980: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood / 1981: The Solace of Open Spaces / 1982: Total Eclipse / 1982: A Drugstore in Winter / 1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All / 1988: Heaven and Nature / 1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown / 1990: Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / 1993: The Disposable Rocket / 1995: They All Just Went Away / 1997: Graven Images / Notable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction. Robert Atwan -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Mark Twain -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Henry Adams -- John Muir -- William James -- Randolph Bourne -- John Jay Chapman -- Jane Addams -- T. S. Eliot -- Ernest Hemingway -- H. L. Mencken -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Edmund Wilson -- Gertrude Stein -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- James Thurber -- Richard Wright -- James Agee -- Robert Frost -- E. B. White -- S. J. Perelman -- Langston Hughes -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Mary McCarthy -- Rachel Carson -- James Baldwin -- Loren Eiseley -- Eudora Welty -- Donald Hall -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Tom Wolfe -- Susan Sontag -- Vladimir Nabokov -- N. Scott Momaday -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Michael Herr -- Maya Angelou -- Lewis Thomas -- John McPhee -- William H. Gass -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Alice Walker -- Adrienne Rich -- Joan Didion -- Richard Rodriguez -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Annie Dillard -- Cynthia Ozick -- William Manchester -- Edward Hoagland -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Gerald Early -- John Updike -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Saul Bellow -- Appendix.
"This collection is a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. In her introduction to this volume, Joyce Carol Oates describes her project as "a search for the expression of personal experience within the historical, the individual talent within the tradition." Along with Robert Atwan, Oates has chosen a list of works that are both intimate and important, essays that take on subjects of profound and universal significance while retaining the power and spirit of a personal address." "This collection honors some of the twentieth century's best-known and best-loved writers on a breathtaking variety of topics. In a journalistic mode, Ernest Hemingway covers the bullfights in Pamplona, H. L. Mencken reacts to the Scopes trial, and Michael Herr dodges bullets in a helicopter over Vietnam. Nowhere is the intersection of our personal and political histories more meaningful than when the subject is America's enduring legacy of racial strife, as shown by Richard Wright's "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son," Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," and others. The wonders and horrors of science, nature, and the cosmos are explored with eloquence, bravery, and beauty when Lewis Thomas writes about "The Lives of a Cell," Rachel Carson mulls "The Marginal World," and Stephen Jay Gould preaches evolution and baseball in "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown."" "Taken together, these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
9780618155873
Essays.
824 / BE-
Foreword / Introduction / 1901: Corn-pone Opinions / 1903: Of the Coming of John / 1906: A Law of Acceleration / 1909: Stickeen / 1910: The Moral Equivalent of War / 1911: The Handicapped / 1912: Coatesville / 1916: The Devil Baby at Hull-House / 1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent / 1923: Pamplona in July / 1925: The Hills of Zion / 1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me / 1933: The Old Stone House / 1935: What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them / 1936: The Crack-Up / 1937: Sex Ex Machina / 1937: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch / 1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / 1939: The Figure a Poem Makes / 1941: Once More to the Lake / 1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away / 1949: Bop / 1950: The Future Is Now / 1953: Artists in Uniform / 1955: The Marginal World / 1955: Notes of a Native Son / 1956: The Brown Wasps / 1957: A Sweet Devouring / 1961: A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails / 1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail / 1964: Putting Daddy On / 1964: Notes on "Camp" / 1966: Perfect Past / 1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain / 1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King / 1969: Illumination Rounds / 1970: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / 1971: The Lives of a Cell / 1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens / 1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking / 1975: No Name Woman / 1975: Looking for Zora / 1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying / 1979: The White Album / 1980: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood / 1981: The Solace of Open Spaces / 1982: Total Eclipse / 1982: A Drugstore in Winter / 1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All / 1988: Heaven and Nature / 1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown / 1990: Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / 1993: The Disposable Rocket / 1995: They All Just Went Away / 1997: Graven Images / Notable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction. Robert Atwan -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Mark Twain -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Henry Adams -- John Muir -- William James -- Randolph Bourne -- John Jay Chapman -- Jane Addams -- T. S. Eliot -- Ernest Hemingway -- H. L. Mencken -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Edmund Wilson -- Gertrude Stein -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- James Thurber -- Richard Wright -- James Agee -- Robert Frost -- E. B. White -- S. J. Perelman -- Langston Hughes -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Mary McCarthy -- Rachel Carson -- James Baldwin -- Loren Eiseley -- Eudora Welty -- Donald Hall -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Tom Wolfe -- Susan Sontag -- Vladimir Nabokov -- N. Scott Momaday -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Michael Herr -- Maya Angelou -- Lewis Thomas -- John McPhee -- William H. Gass -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Alice Walker -- Adrienne Rich -- Joan Didion -- Richard Rodriguez -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Annie Dillard -- Cynthia Ozick -- William Manchester -- Edward Hoagland -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Gerald Early -- John Updike -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Saul Bellow -- Appendix.
"This collection is a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. In her introduction to this volume, Joyce Carol Oates describes her project as "a search for the expression of personal experience within the historical, the individual talent within the tradition." Along with Robert Atwan, Oates has chosen a list of works that are both intimate and important, essays that take on subjects of profound and universal significance while retaining the power and spirit of a personal address." "This collection honors some of the twentieth century's best-known and best-loved writers on a breathtaking variety of topics. In a journalistic mode, Ernest Hemingway covers the bullfights in Pamplona, H. L. Mencken reacts to the Scopes trial, and Michael Herr dodges bullets in a helicopter over Vietnam. Nowhere is the intersection of our personal and political histories more meaningful than when the subject is America's enduring legacy of racial strife, as shown by Richard Wright's "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son," Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," and others. The wonders and horrors of science, nature, and the cosmos are explored with eloquence, bravery, and beauty when Lewis Thomas writes about "The Lives of a Cell," Rachel Carson mulls "The Marginal World," and Stephen Jay Gould preaches evolution and baseball in "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown."" "Taken together, these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
9780618155873
Essays.
824 / BE-