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American Literature & Rhetoric
Table of Contents
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Modifiers
Chapter 8 Suggestions for Writing
9 | AMERICA IN THE MODERN WORLD:
1913-1945
Maria Cristina Mena, The Vine Leaf (fiction, 1914) Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish (poetry, 1938)
Carrie Chapman Catt, Women’s Suffrage Is
Inevitable (nonfiction, 1917)
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking
at a Blackbird (poetry, 1917)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig (poetry, 1918)
Claude McKay, If We Must Die (poetry, 1919)
Marianne Moore, Poetry (poetry, 1919)
Theodore Dreiser, A Certain Oil Refinery
(nonfiction, 1919)
Emma Goldman, Statement at the Federal
Hearing in re Deportation (nonfiction, 1919)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair
(fiction, 1920)
E. E. Cummings, in Just— (poetry, 1920)
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice (poetry, 1920)
William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure
(poetry, 1921)
TALKBACK | Charles Demuth, I Saw the
Figure 5 in Gold (painting, 1928)
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks
of Rivers (poetry, 1921)
Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light
(fiction, 1924)
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel (poetry, 1925) 8. Garry Wills, from My Education in the
T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (poetry, 1925)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Women Must Learn to
Play the Game As Men Do (nonfiction, 1928)
TALKBACK | Rebecca Solnit, If I Were
a Man (nonfiction, 2017)
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be
Colored Me (nonfiction, 1928)
TALKBACK | Eve Ewing, What I mean
when I say I’m sharpening my oyster
knife (poetry, 2018)
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say
(poetry, 1934)
E. B. White, Farewell, My Lovely!
(nonfiction, 1936)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural
Address: One-Third of a Nation (nonfiction, 1937)
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
(poetry, 1939)
The Great Depression (visual essay, 1930-1942)
Gordon Hirabayashi, from Diary in King County
Jail (nonfiction, 1942)
Conversation | Breaking the Glass Ceiling
1. Emma Goldberg, Why the Gender Pay Gap
Persists (and What We Can Do About It) (2019)
2. Alfred T. Palmer, Operating a hand drill at
Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a
“Vengeance” dive bomber (photograph, 1943)
3. David Rock and Heidi Grant, Why Diverse
Teams are Smarter (2016)
4. Median Annual Earnings and Gender Earnings
Ratio for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers Age
15 Years and Older by Race/Ethnicity,
2017-2018 (graph)
5. Anita Hill, Class Actions Could Fight
Discrimination in Tech (2017)
6. Claire Cain Miller, from Women Did Everything
Right. Then Work Got “Greedy.” (2019)
7. Ruth Whippman, Enough Leaning In. Let’s
Tell Men to Lean Out. (2019)
Patriarchy (2019)
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Verbs
Chapter 9 Suggestions for Writing
10 | THE RISE OF A
SUPERPOWER: 1945-2000
Lillian Hellman, I Cannot and Will Not Cut
My Conscience to Fit This Year’s Fashions
(nonfiction, 1952)
Flannery O’Connor, Good Country People
(fiction,1955)
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
(nonfiction, 1955)
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
(poetry, 1955)
Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews
(fiction, 1959)
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address
(nonfiction, 1961)
Joan Didion, On Self-Respect (nonfiction, 1961)
Sylvia Plath, Mirror (poetry, 1961)
John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Speech
(nonfiction, 1962)
TALKBACK | Nikita Khrushchev, Letter to
John F. Kennedy (nonfiction, 1962)
Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring
(nonfiction, 1962)
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham
Jail (nonfiction, 1963)
TALKBACK | Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change:
Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
(nonfiction, 2010)
Robert F. Kennedy, The Mindless Menace of
Violence (nonfiction, 1968)
Toni Cade Bambara, Raymond’s Run (fiction, 1971)
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck (poetry, 1973) Grammar Workshops
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman (fiction, 1974)
Naomi Shihab Nye, Arabic Coffee (poetry, 1986)
Brent Staples, Just Walk On By: A Black Man
Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
(nonfiction, 1986)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It (poetry, 1988)
TALKBACK | Ocean Vuong, Aubade with
Burning City (poetry, 2014)
Robin Dissin Aufses, Renée H. Shea,
Lawrence Scanlon, Katherine E. Cordes
Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River (fiction, 1990)
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin
Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María
(nonfiction, 1992)
Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize Speech
(nonfiction, 1993)
Kerry James Marshall, Our Town
(painting, 1995)
Rita Dove, Rosa (poetry, 1998)
Conversation | Military Spending:
How Much Is Too Much?
1. Jill Lepore, from The Force: How Much
Military Is Enough? (2013)
2. Signe Wilkinson, Military Budget
(cartoon, 2017)
3. Greg S. Jones, The Myth of the
Military-Industrial Complex (2017)
4. Jessica T. Mathews, from America’s
Indefensible Defense Budget (2019)
5. Robert J. Samuelson, No, Military
Spending Is Not Bankrupting Us (2019)
6. Discretionary Spending in 2015 and
2023 (graphs)
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style |
Parallel Structure
Chapter 10 Suggestions for Writing
Glossary / Glosario
MLA Guide
Index