Moving beyond the page: a reader for writing and thinking

Moving Beyond the Page is a collection of 40 full-length readings-20 short stories and 20 essays and articles-each with a full set of learning features, comprehension questions, and writing assignments designed to help students read, analyze from a literary critical perspective, and write about the accompanying selection. It is intended primarily for non-English majors at the college level. Moving Beyond the Page is a pedagogically rich collection of nonfiction and fiction pieces showcasing the work of 40 Canadian, American, and international authors. Comprising 20 short stories and 20 nonfiction selections-including essays and articles from a variety of newspapers and magazines-the book will expose readers to the unique features of prose writing through works, themes, and writers that reflect a broad spectrum of diversity in terms of ethnicity, age, class, gender, andlanguage. The text's reading selections feature a broad range of writers, from well known (Oscar Wilde) to lesser known (Stephen Marche), Canadian (Margaret Laurence) to international (Jorge Luis Borges), current (Joseph Boyden) to timeless classic (Leo Tolstoy). The thematic table of contentsencourages students to make connections between fiction and nonfiction writings on such topics as poverty and debt, cultural and social pressure, sexual politics and gender, faith and spirituality, and the immigrant experience. Each of the book's 40 selections is preceded by a set of tools designed to prepare readers for the essay or story they are about to encounter and help them connect to it on a personal level. These include a biocritical introduction to the author; a series of quotations by the author, which give some insight into his or her writing philosophy; and a short series of pre-reading questionsthat invite students to consider their own experience of events similar to those described in the selection.Following each selection is a lexicon of idioms and references that readers (especially EAL learners) may not be familiar with, as well as a glossary of the selection's more challenging words, designed to build students' vocabulary. Comprehension and analysis exercises challenge students' grasp ofthe content and meaning of what they have read, while essay questions proposesome topics for research or reader-response assignments. An end-of-book glossary-'The Writer's Toolbox'-is a useful resource for information on literary terms and concepts such as atmosphere, irony, and metaphor. INDICE: Contents Thematic Table of Contents Prologue Features of this BookAssessment Guidelines Acknowledgements Nonfiction Oscar Wilde From De Profundis Emily Carr Mother Martin Luther King, Jr The Purpose of Education Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation Margaret Visser High Heels Kenneth J. Harvey Virtual Adultery Pat Capponi From Dispatches from the Poverty Line Drew Hayden Taylor Pretty Like a White Boy Jean Vanier From Becoming Human Lawrence Solomon Homeless in Paradise Stephen King What Writing Is Vandana Shiva Two Myths That Keep the World Poor Rex Murphy From Canada and Other Matters of Opinion Timothy N. Hornyak From Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day George Orwell Politics and the English Language Jonathan Swift A Modest ProposalKarim Rashid From design your self Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Fiction Leo Tolstoy God Sees the Truth but Waits Guy de Maupassant Butterball Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour Jorge Luis Borges Streetcorner Man Flannery OConnor A Good Man Is Hard to Find James Baldwin Sonnys Blues Margaret Laurence The Loons Joseph Boyden Legless Joe versus Black Robe Katherine Govier The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery Austin Clarke A Wedding in Toronto AngelaCarter The Company of Wolves Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Michael Ondaatje From In the Skin of a Lion Katherine Vlassie ABit of Magic Thomas King The Baby in the Airmail Box Stephen Marche The Crow Procedure Jhumpa Lahiri The Treatment of Bibi Haldar Diane Schoemperlen Tell It to the Walls Dorothy Parker A Telephone Call Leonid Andreyev The Little Angel Appendix: Sample Student Essays The Writers Toolbox: Tricks of the Trade Credits Index of Themes Index of Authors and Works

• ISBN: 978-0-19-543949-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 424
• Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés