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Informationen zum Autor Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Muller's awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship. Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Short Prose Reader 13/eContentsThematic ContentsPrefaceChapter 1 On WritingJennifer Lee: I Think, Therefore IM A journalist and author explains how text messaging, Weblogs, and e-mail are changing the ways students write-and driving some teachers to distraction.
John Grisham: How to Write with Style The best-selling author tells of the various odd jobs and adventures he had on the way to a successful writing career.
William Zinsser: Simplicity According to this writer-teacher, "clutter is the disease of American writing." We must, Zinsser declares, simplify.
Amy Tan: Mother Tongue (Mixing Patterns) Novelist Amy Tan explains how her writing style achieved both passion and simplicity when she learned to value the criticism of her mother, who said after reading her daughter's novel, "So easy to read."
Summing Up: Chapter 1From Seeing to WritingChapter 2 On ReadingJudith Ortiz Cofer: Volar A Latina writer recalls how reading helped her overcome her childhood circumstances.
Malcolm X Prison Studies "Reading had changed forever the course of my life," writes Malcolm X, who explains movingly how reading is both an activity of love and a tool of power.
Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings (Mixing Patterns)One of America's best fiction writers reveals a long-standing love affair-with books! "Long before I wrote stories," she says,"I listened for stories."
Anna Quindlen: Turning the Page (Mixing Patterns)An acclaimed essayist and novelist declares that the future of reading is backlit and bright.
Summing Up: Chapter 2From Seeing to WritingChapter 3 DescriptionBarry Lopez: Apologia Lopez brings the eye of a naturalist and the soul of a humanist to a driving trip along the western roads of America.
Annie Dillard: In the Jungle An acclaimed nature writer discovers in the Ecuadorian jungle the depths of experience that can be found in "the middle of nowhere."
Maxine Hong Kingston: Catfish in the Bathtub Squirming turtles, swimming catfish, pungent skunks, city pigeons: Why did Kingston's mother bring the culture of China to their California kitchen?
Suzanne Berne: My Ti...
