Preface
Introduction: Ways of Reading
Making a Mark
Ways of Reading
Strong Readers, Strong Texts
Reading with and against the Grain
Working with Difficulty
Reading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments
The Readings
*David Abram, Animism and the Alphabet
Gloria Anzaldúa, Entering into the Serpent
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
*Kwame Anthony Appiah, Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
On Rembrandt's Woman in Bed
On Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
*Eula Biss, The Pain Scale
Susan Bordo, Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body
*Judith Butler, Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy
*Anne Carson, Short Talks
*Brian Doyle, Joyas Valoradas
Michel Foucault, Panopticism
Paulo Freire, The “Banking” Concept of Education
Susan Griffin, Our Secret
*Laura Kipnis, Reader Advisory
Love's Labors
*Richard E. Miller, The Dark Night of the Soul
Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature
*Antonio Porchia, Voices
Mary Louise Pratt, Arts of the Contact Zone
*Alberto Rios, Translating Translation: Finding the Beginning
Richard Rodriguez, The Achievement of Desire
Edward Said, States
*Tommie Shelby, Social Identity and Group Solidarity
*David Foster Wallace, Authority and American Usage
John Edgar Wideman, Our Time
Assignment Sequences
Working with Assignment Sequences
Working with a Sequence
Sequence One, The Aims Of Education
Sequence Two, The Arts Of The Contact Zone
Sequence Three, Autobiographical Explorations
Sequence Four, Experts And Expertise
Sequence Five, On Difficulty
Sequence Six, Reading Culture
Sequence Seven, The Uses Of Reading
Sequence Eight, The Uses Of Reading (Ii)
Sequence Nine, The Art Of Making Arguments
Sequence Ten, Working With Metaphor