Name: Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15, , Modern American Pr
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Thematic Table of Contents xv
Rhetorical Table of Contents xix
Preface xxi
Editors' Acknowledgments xxv
1 Introduction 1
2 James Baldwin 19
Autobiographical Notes 21
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 27
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? 35
Notes of a Native Son 40
3 Joan Didion 65
Marrying Absurd 68
The White Album 73
Miami 78
Salvador 85
Why I Write 91
On Keeping a Notebook 98
4 Annie Dillard 107
Jest and Earnest 109
Living Like Weasels 116
Transfiguration 121
Skating 125
The Writing Life 130
5 Loren Eiseley 141
The Long Loneliness 143
The Judgment of the Birds 151
The Dance of the Frogs 162
The Running Man 172
6 Ellen Goodman 185
On Being a Journalist 186
The Company Man 189
It's Failure, Not Success 192
The Tapestry of Friendships 196
In the Male Direction 200
7 Stephen Jay Gould 205
Prologue 208
Flaws in a Victorian Veil 215
Women's Brains 223
Evolution as Fact and Theory 231
8 Maxine Hong Kingston 241
No Name Woman 243
On Discovery 255
The Wild Man of the Green Swamp 258
Silence 261
9 Barry Lopez 267
The Stone Horse 271
The Clamor of Justification 282
Children in the Woods 288
Perspective 291
10 John McPhee 297
Los Angeles against the Mountains 300
Pirates, Stowaways, Drugs 308
The Pineys 317
The Swiss at War 324
11 Richard Selzer 333
The Pen and the Scalpel 335
The Knife 339
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold 345
Imelda 351
12 Lewis Thomas 367
The Iks 369
The Lives of a Cell 373
The Tucson Zoo 377
To Err Is Human 381
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony 386
13 Barbara Tuchman 391
In Search of History 394
The Idea and the Deed 401
The Black Death 410
Is History a Guide to the Future? 421
14 Alice Walker 433
Brothers and Sisters 434
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 439
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 443
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens 452
15 E. B. White 465
The Essayist 468
The Sea and the Wind That Blows 471
Death of a Pig 477
The Ring of Time 486
Once More to the Lake 493
16 Tom Wolfe 505
Las Vegas 508
Only One Life 518
The Pump House Gang 524
The Right Stuff 541
17 Other Voices 559
Feminism, the Body, and the Machine 561
Friends, Foes, and Working Animals 579
Foreword to The Broken Cord 587
The Parable of the Cave; or, In Praise of Watercolors 599
What I Think, What I Am 605
How It Feels to Be Colored Me 609
I Have a Dream 615
The Siege of Chicago 621
On Being a Cripple 631
The Voice of the Looking-Glass 645
The Way to Rainy Mountain 651
Macho Time 657
Complexion 663
Safe at Home 669
On AIDS 681

Title: Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15

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Publication Date: January 1993

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Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15

This book reads like a fabulous series of sharp, themed undergraduate lectures on various facets and forms of ethnic modernism. Sollors entwines the stories of famous modernists like Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway with the careers of contemporaneous figures like Mary Antin and Henry Roth. One of the refreshing dimensions of Sollors' literary history is that he refuses to give ideological precedence to the formal innovations of modernism; instead, he gives a direct account of the Cold War creation of a narrative that privileged literary modernism as an inevitable corollary to American democracy and an inherent challenge to totalitarianism. Sollors' writerly voice is clear, witty, empathetic, and insightful. He is astonishing learned and yet never loses the thread of his narrative amidst the impressive array of evidence which he weaves into it. The strength of this book for me was twofold: 1) the clarity and momentum of the stories that it tells about hybrid genres, ethnic experiences and narratives, and shaping moments in literary, political, and cultural history 2) the archival range that these stories reflect. Sollors seems to have read just about everything, and his renderings of Italian-American memoirs, immigrant tales, and magazine short stories draw out recurring tropes and prevalent themes in those works. Sollors sends the scholar jotting down new sources for research bibliographies and working syllabi, and he gives the student reader a kaleidoscopic impression of 20th-century U.S. literature between 1910 and 1950. His chapter juxtaposing and contrasting Wright and Hurston was particularly rich and compelling. I give this four stars instead of five stars because this is more of a general introduction than a taut argument, and that's not a flaw of the book (it tackles the project of laying out a literary history, as this material was originally written for the *Cambridge History of American Literature*) but it also means that it is not quite as exciting to this reader as Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture or Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

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	Thematic Table of Contents	xv
	Rhetorical Table of Contents	xix
	Preface	xxi
	Editors' Acknowledgments	xxv
1	Introduction	1
2	James Baldwin	19
	Autobiographical Notes	21
	The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American	27
	If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?	35
	Notes of a Native Son	40
3	Joan Didion	65
	Marrying Absurd	68
	The White Album	73
	Miami	78
	Salvador	85
	Why I Write	91
	On Keeping a Notebook	98
4	Annie Dillard	107
	Jest and Earnest	109
	Living Like Weasels	116
	Transfiguration	121
	Skating	125
	The Writing Life	130
5	Loren Eiseley	141
	The Long Loneliness	143
	The Judgment of the Birds	151
	The Dance of the Frogs	162
	The Running Man	172
6	Ellen Goodman	185
	On Being a Journalist	186
	The Company Man	189
	It's Failure, Not Success	192
	The Tapestry of Friendships	196
	In the Male Direction	200
7	Stephen Jay Gould	205
	Prologue	208
	Flaws in a Victorian Veil	215
	Women's Brains	223
	Evolution as Fact and Theory	231
8	Maxine Hong Kingston	241
	No Name Woman	243
	On Discovery	255
	The Wild Man of the Green Swamp	258
	Silence	261
9	Barry Lopez	267
	The Stone Horse	271
	The Clamor of Justification	282
	Children in the Woods	288
	Perspective	291
10	John McPhee	297
	Los Angeles against the Mountains	300
	Pirates, Stowaways, Drugs	308
	The Pineys	317
	The Swiss at War	324
11	Richard Selzer	333
	The Pen and the Scalpel	335
	The Knife	339
	The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold	345
	Imelda	351
12	Lewis Thomas	367
	The Iks	369
	The Lives of a Cell	373
	The Tucson Zoo	377
	To Err Is Human	381
	Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony	386
13	Barbara Tuchman	391
	In Search of History	394
	The Idea and the Deed	401
	The Black Death	410
	Is History a Guide to the Future?	421
14	Alice Walker	433
	Brothers and Sisters	434
	Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	439
	Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	443
	In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	452
15	E. B. White	465
	The Essayist	468
	The Sea and the Wind That Blows	471
	Death of a Pig	477
	The Ring of Time	486
	Once More to the Lake	493
16	Tom Wolfe	505
	Las Vegas	508
	Only One Life	518
	The Pump House Gang	524
	The Right Stuff	541
17	Other Voices	559
	Feminism, the Body, and the Machine	561
	Friends, Foes, and Working Animals	579
	Foreword to The Broken Cord	587
	The Parable of the Cave; or, In Praise of Watercolors	599
	What I Think, What I Am	605
	How It Feels to Be Colored Me	609
	I Have a Dream	615
	The Siege of Chicago	621
	On Being a Cripple	631
	The Voice of the Looking-Glass	645
	The Way to Rainy Mountain	651
	Macho Time	657
	Complexion	663
	Safe at Home	669
	On AIDS	681