Quentin Miller is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston where he teaches composition, fiction writing, and literature. Professor Miller is the author of "John Updike and the Cold War," and the editor of "Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen." He is also the editor of the forthcoming "Prose and Cons: New Essays on Contemporary U.S. Prison Literature...
Quentin Miller is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston where he teaches composition, fiction writing, and literature. Professor Miller is the author of "John Updike and the Cold War," and the editor of "Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen." He is also the editor of the forthcoming "Prose and Cons: New Essays on Contemporary U.S. Prison Literature," and he is on the editorial board of "The Heath Anthology of American Literature." His articles have appeared in such journals as "American Literature," "Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers," "The Hemingway Review," and "American Literary Realism."
"What do you think?"
If it is sincere, "What do you think?" is a flattering question because it allows you to voice an opinion, which is the first step on the path to becoming an anthority on a subject.
Writing bears the stamp of something palpable, if not something permanent.
The goal of The Generation of Ideas is to encourage you to understand it means to generate an idea while encouraging you to think about the crucial transition from adolescence to adulthood.
It is a transition that everyone must face, that no one likes, and that not enough people understand in all of its depth or complexity. (查看原文)
Generating Ideas
We can self-consciously connect idea with idea, comparing and contrasting as we go, ploting out the course of a deductive sequence. But when we try to get behind the ideas to grasp the elusive interplay of experience, memory and insight that bubbles up into consciousness as a whole thought, we are not apt to come away from the effort dizzy and confounded -- as if we had tried to read a message that was travelling past us at blinding speed. Thinking up ideas is so spontaneous -- one might almost say so instinctive -- an action, that it defies capture and analysis.
-- Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information
Even if the process of "thinking up ideas defies capture and analysis", we would be foolish to give up ... (查看原文)
0 有用 Ms.A扑柔 2013-12-25 22:11:31
真不怎么样。。。（教材的分数果然都是被老师给拉低的 = =）
0 有用 Manchild 2012-05-18 20:17:54
不得不說這書選的文章都已經過時好久了。
0 有用 小葱葱 2011-08-26 19:42:23
综英课本，还是不错的