Reading the Lives of Others A Sequence for Writers

Name: Reading the Lives of Others A Sequence for Writers
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ISBN: 9780312115111

ISBN-10: 0312115113

ISBN-13: 9780312115111

Edition: N/A

Authors: David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky

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A briefer, less expensive version of the innovative Ways of Reading, Third Edition, this cultural studies reader includes 6 rich, lengthy, and demanding readings (by Clifford Geetz, Harriet Brent Jacobs, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others) and an Assignment Sequence.

Book details

List price: $47.99
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 11/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 257
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Making a Mark


Ways of Reading


Strong Readers, Strong Texts


Reading with and against the Grain


Reading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments


Readings


Clifford Geertz


Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight


[From Intrepretation of Cultures]


Harriet (Brent) Jacobs


Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl


[Selections From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl}


Patricia Nelson Limerick


Closing the Frontier and Opening Western History


[From The Legacy of Conquest]


Empire of Innocence


Joyce Carol Oates,


Theft (Fiction)


[From Marya: A Life]


Mary Louise Pratt,


Arts of the Contact Zone


John Edgar Wideman,


Our Time


[From Brothers and Keepers]


Assignment Sequence


Working with the Assignment Sequence


Assignment Sequence History and Ethnography: Reading the Lives of Others



Ethnography: Reading Culture [Geertz]



History: Reading the Past [Limerick]



Imagined Landscapes [Oates]



Life Stories [Wideman, Geertz, Limerick, Oates]



Revision [Geertz, Limerick, Oates, Wideman]



Autoethnography: Engaging Others [Pratt, Jacobs]



Reading and Writing in the "Contact Zone" [Pratt]



Revision (again) [Geertz, Limerick, Oates, Wideman, Jacobs, Pratt]