Encounters: Readings for Advanced Composition
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 550
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Encounters: Readings for Advanced Composition features selections and an editorial viewpoint that is appropriate for advanced writing courses at Christian colleges or universities.
The publication fosters critical inquiry and response by challenging students to examine their own assumptions; to actively "hear" another voice and "see" another view; to analyze content, methods, and style; to exercise discernment; to evaluate and to synthesize ideas; and to apply insights to their own lives and cultures.
Encounters: Readings for Advanced Composition
- Helps readers encounter particular problems-posed by modern notions of work, ecology, and historical validity and meaning. They are challenged to engage these issues within the perspective of a Christian world view.
- Introduces students to the broad subjects of imagination and creativity, presenting selections that explore the aesthetic implications of Christian doctrine-particularly Creation and the Incarnation.
- Features a workbook format, unusual in an anthology, in order to teach and encourage active reading skills.
- Is interactive! Questions following each selection require students to mark or annotate the text, to analyze particulars of style or content, to explain relationships of textual units, and to question or apply the insights suggested by the readings.
Introduction
Part One: Experiencing Through Literature
Chapter 1: Perspectives on Epistemology
Helen Keller, The Day Language Came into My Life
Virginia Stem Owens, Telling the Truth in Lies
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Character of Historical Knowing
Chapter 2: Perspectives on Men and Women
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
Ben Jonson, Still to Be Neat
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Andre Dubus, A Father’s Story
William Russell Epperson, My Father Lies
Chapter 3: Perspectives on Youth and Age
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
Robert Frost, Birches
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Helen Norris, Mrs. Moonlight
Kay Boyle, Winter Night
Chapter 4: Perspectives on the Self and the Other
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
R. K. Narayan, A Horse and Two Goats
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Part Two: Identifying Assumptions and Worldview
Chapter 5: Values and Beliefs
Albert M. Wolters, from Creation Regained
C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism
Glenn Tinder, Can We Be Good without God?
Chapter 6: Vocation
Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work? from Ecclesiasticus 38–39
G. K. Chesterton, The Little Birds Who Won’t Sing
Rabindranath Tagore, The Man Had No Useful Work
Thomas Merton, What Is a Monk?
Richard Wilbur, A Plain Song for Comadre
Ann Patchett, The Language of Faith
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
Synthesis/Essay Suggestions
Chapter 7: Creation Care
St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun
Lynn White, Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
Wendell Berry, Christianity and the Survival of Creation
Steven Bouma-Prediger, Is Christianity Responsible for the Ecological Crisis?
Vincent Rossi, Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain
Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination
Mark Williams, Nightmare #4 (Extinction)
W. S. Merwin, Unchopping a Tree
W. S. Merwin, The Last One
Synthesis/Essay Suggestions
Part Three: Encounters: Mystery and Manners
Chapter 8: Christian Aesthetics
Plato, Parable of the Cave
Dorothy L. Sayers, Towards a Christian Aesthetic
Madeleine L’Engle, from Icons of the True
Richard Wilbur, A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Synthesis/Essay Suggestions
Chapter 9: Myth, Fairy Tale, and the Moral Imagination
Clyde S. Kilby, The Christian Imagination
George MacDonald, The Fantastic Imagination
Thomas Howard, Myth: A Flight to Reality
C. S. Lewis, Myth Became Fact
C. S. Lewis, Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s To Be Said
G. K. Chesterton, Dragooning the Dragon
J. R. R. Tolkien, from On Fairy Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
George MacDonald, The Golden Key
William Russell Epperson, The Unicorn Stalker
Vigen Guroian, Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues through Fairy Tales
Walter Wangerin, Jr., Flying the Night Wind
Frederick Buechner, The Annunciation
Synthesis/Essay Suggestions7
Chapter 10: Epiphanies: The Transcendent Presence
Julian of Norwich, from The Revelations of Divine Love
Annie Dillard, A Field of Silence
Annie Dillard, A Christmas Story
Thomas Merton, from The General Dance
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Caged Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall
Rainer Maria Rilke, Do Not Be Troubled, God
Rainer Maria Rilke, You, Neighbor God
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Supernatural Love
Li-Young Lee, The Gift
Mark Williams, Blind
Synthesis/Essay Suggestions
Chapter 11: The Sacred Ordinary: The Incarnational Imagination
Michelangelo, Mine Eyes That Are Enamored of Things Fair
Thomas Howard, Mimesis and Incarnation
Flannery O’Connor, Novelist and Believer
Flannery O’Connor, Parker’s Back
Flannery O’Connor, The Displaced Person
Vigen Guroian, The Iconographic Fiction of Flannery O’Connor
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Synthesis/Essay Suggestions
Chapter 12: Christ and Culture
J. Mark Bertrand, Imagining the Truth: Christians and Cultural Contribution
James K. A. Smith, You Are What You Love: To Worship is Human
Gregory Wolfe, Art, Faith, and the Stewardship of Culture
Wang Anyi, The Destination