Explorations in Reading and Writing

by Tom Zaniello

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394342925
• ISBN13: 9780394342924
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 455 Pages

Customer Reviews

Exclectic mix .. some interesting groupings

This is probably an undergraduate English textbook, but contains some nicely paired essays. There were 6 chapters including "American Scene", "Mechanisms of Mind", "Dreams and Visions", Investigating Murder", "Perspectives on Salem", and "Approaching Jonestown". The section on American geography includes essays by John McPhee on Marvin Gardens, and Calvin Trillin on Newport, KY (across from Cincinnati). In the essays on mind, a rereading of A.M. Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is always welcome. Herbert Crovitx "the form of logical solutions" offered an interesting automatically generated brainstorming method for coming up with solution patterns. The section of dreams and visions offered fascinating essays from Freud's working out of repressed items, to his student Jung looking at collective unconscious. Chief Seattle's "Indian's Night promises to be dark" offers another perspective on visions. Perhaps the most fascinating was an anthropological account of the Senoi, a preliterate tribe, where every day is like a dream seminar.The section of investigating murder was a little dead accept for Jorge Luis Borge's "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan (Billy the kid)".