The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose – Third Canadian Edition
  • Publication Date: August 8, 2017
  • ISBN: 9781554813469 / 1554813468
  • 1120 pages; 6½" x 9"

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The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose – Third Canadian Edition

  • Publication Date: August 8, 2017
  • ISBN: 9781554813469 / 1554813468
  • 1120 pages; 6½" x 9"

The third Canadian edition of this anthology has been substantially revised and updated for a contemporary audience; a selection of classic essays from earlier eras has been retained, but the emphasis is very much on twenty-first-century expository writing. There is also a focus on issues of great importance in twenty-first-century Canada, such as climate change, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Jian Ghomeshi trial, Facebook, police discrimination, trans rights, and postsecondary education in the humanities. Works of different lengths and levels of difficulty are represented, as are narrative, descriptive and persuasive essays—and, new to this edition, lyric essays.

For the new edition there are also considerably more short pieces than ever before; a number of op-ed pieces are included, as are pieces from blogs and from online news sources. The representation of academic writing from several disciplines has been increased—and in some cases the anthology also includes news reports presenting the results of academic research to a general audience. Also new to this edition are essays from a wide range of the most celebrated prose writers of the modern era—from Susan Sontag, Eula Biss, and Michel Foucault to Anne Carson and Ta-Nehisi Coates. The anthology also offers increased diversity of representation—including, for example, a larger proportion of First Nations writers and women writers than previous Canadian editions.

Unobtrusive explanatory notes appear at the bottom of the page, and each selection is preceded by a headnote that provides students with information regarding the context in which the piece was written. Each reading is also followed by questions for discussion. A unique feature is the inclusion of a set of additional notes on the anthology’s companion website—notes designed to be of particular help to EAL students and/or students who have little familiarity with Canadian culture.

The anthology is accompanied by two companion websites. The student website features additional readings and interactive writing exercises (as well as the additional notes). The instructor website provides additional discussion questions and, for a number of the anthology selections, background information that may be of interest.

Please note that this edition is particularly well suited to the needs of Canadian students; for US courses, please see The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose – Third Edition.

Comments

“The third edition of The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose is even more relevant than ever. This wide-ranging compilation of articles can help students navigate the troubled waters of politics, race, and gender issues. Of particular note is the thematic Aboriginal North Americans section, which includes a piece on Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This anthology will challenge students to make connections among the diverse selections, opening new channels of classroom debate and written response.” —Laurie Cooper, Université de Moncton

“This new edition of an already excellent teaching text has doubled in size and expanded its website offerings, making it doubly indispensable. First- and second-year university students will continue to benefit from encountering classics old and new, but coverage has expanded to include not only more texts fundamental to the Canadian story, but also a global array of voices addressing timely issues, from mental health, gender identity, human-animal relations, and climate change to reconciliation, racialized inequality, the effects of social media, and political systems under stress. The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose presents the essay as language at its most engaging, provocative, and inspiring.” —Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University

“An impressive collection. The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose is sure to spark stimulating class discussions on a wide range of contemporary issues and help students improve their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.” —Farah Moosa, Vancouver Island University

Comments on Previous Edition

“What a wonderful and insightful collection of essays. My writing courses improved by leaps and bounds when I adopted the first edition.”—Beth Staley, West Virginia University

“Broadview has surpassed itself. This eclectic anthology represents the essay as a supple form of expression, and its subject as all that pertains to the human condition. Invaluable for the classroom, this collection will also challenge, amuse, provoke, and console the general reader.”—Susanna Egan, University of British Columbia

“My students’ responses to the readings have sparked meaningful and productive conversations about culture, education, and our ways of viewing the world. To my delight, at the end of a typical meeting we are left with even more questions than when we began. This text fosters students’ growth as inquisitive, critical readers and opens the doorway to future academic work.”—Alixandra V. Krzemien, Canisius College

“Articles such as Binyavanga Wainaina’s ‘How to Write about Africa’ and Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘None of the Above: What I.Q. Doesn’t Tell You About Race’ provide material that is both current and controversial, making it perfect for class discussions focused on the critical expression of relevant issues. The [editors offer] insightful questions at the end of each article and have chosen readings carefully—[this is an anthology] … that can be used beneficially in class discussion and as the basis for written assignments.”—Louise Nichols, Université de Moncton

The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose is one of the best essay anthologies I have seen. The remarkable diversity of the essays covers an impressive range of authors, styles, topics, and viewpoints.”—Paul D. Farkas, Metropolitan State College

Readings highlighted in gray are included on the anthology’s companion website.

PREFACE
CONTENTS BY SUBJECT
CONTENTS BY RHETORICAL CATEGORY AND MEDIUM

LUCRETIUS

  • On the Nature of Things

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

  • Epistle 47 [On Slavery]

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

  • from On Cannibals
  • Of Democritus and Heraclitus

FRANCIS BACON

  • Of Studies

JOHN DONNE

  • from For Whom This Bell Tolls

MARGARET CAVENDISH

  • from Sociable Letters [On Social Class and Happiness]

SAMUEL JOHNSON

  • The Rambler No. 114 [On Capital Punishment]
  • The Rambler No. 148 [On Parental Tyranny]

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

  • from The Turkish Embassy Letters
    • from Letter 30
    • from Letter 43

JONATHAN SWIFT

  • A Modest Proposal

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

  • Dedication to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

HARRIET MARTINEAU

  • from A Retrospect of Western Travel
    • from City Life in the South
    • from Niagara
    • from Prisons
    • from First Sight of Slavery

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

  • Seneca Falls Keynote Address

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

  • Civil Disobedience

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

  • from Fourth of July Oration

MARY ANN SHADD

  • from Relations of Canada to American Slavery

JOHN A. MACDONALD

  • from Speech Delivered on 6 February 1865 [On Confederation]

CHARLES DARWIN

  • from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

ELIZA M.

  • Account of Cape Town

MARK TWAIN

  • from Life on the Mississippi

LADY AGNES MACDONALD

  • By Car and Cowcatcher

OSCAR WILDE

  • from The Decay of Lying

SIR WILFRID LAURIER

  • from Speech Delivered on 14 October 1904 [“The Twentieth Century Shall Be the Century of Canada”]

W.E.B. DU BOIS

  • A Mild Suggestion

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

  • How It Feels to Be Coloured Me

JANET FLANNER

  • Mme. Marie Curie

VIRGINIA WOOLF

  • Professions for Women
  • from Three Guineas
  • The Death of the Moth

GEORGE ORWELL

  • Shooting an Elephant
  • Politics and the English Language

HANNAH ARENDT

  • from The Origins of Totalitarianism

JAMES BALDWIN

  • Stranger in the Village

TOMMY DOUGLAS

  • Medicare: The Time to Take a Stand

STANLEY MILGRAM

  • from Behavioral Study of Obedience

RAYMOND WILLIAMS

  • from The Long Revolution

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

NELSON MANDELA

  • from An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die

ROLAND BARTHES

  • from Mythologies
    • Soap-Powder and Detergents
    • Toys

JOHN BERGER

  • Photographs of Agony

MARVIN HARRIS

  • from Pig Lovers and Pig Haters

MICHEL FOUCAULT

  • The Perverse Implantation [from The History of Sexuality]

PETER SINGER

  • from Animal Liberation

LESLIE MARMON SILKO

  • Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective

AUDRE LORDE

  • Poetry Is Not a Luxury
  • The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

ADRIENNE RICH

  • Claiming an Education
  • from Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

ELAINE SHOWALTER

  • Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism

NGŪGĨ WA THIONG’O

  • from Decolonizing the Mind

SALMAN RUSHDIE

  • Is Nothing Sacred?

DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR

  • Pretty Like a White Boy: The Adventures of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway

SHERMAN ALEXIE

  • Indian Education

ANNE CARSON

  • from Short Talks
    • Introduction
    • On Parmenides
    • On Sleep Stones
    • On Walking Backwards
    • On the Total Collection
    • On Sunday Dinner with Father

EMILY MARTIN

  • The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles

JAMAICA KINCAID

  • On Seeing England for the First Time

DAVID CARD AND ALAN B. KRUEGER

  • from Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

URSULA FRANKLIN

  • Silence and the Notion of the Commons

BELL HOOKS

  • Coming to Class Consciousness [from Where We Stand]

ALICE BECK KEHOE

  • Transcribing Insima, a Blackfoot “Old Lady”

JUDITH RICH HARRIS

  • Where Is the Child’s Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ

  • from Crossing Borders [San Diego and Tijuana]

THOMAS HURKA

  • The Moral Superiority of Casablanca over The English Patient
  • Philosophy, Morality, and The English Patient

PHILIP GOUREVITCH

  • from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

LARISSA LAI

  • Political Animals and the Body of History

WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI

  • One Good Turn: Why the Robertson Screwdriver Is the Biggest Little Invention of the Twentieth Century

TIM DEVLIN

  • Does Working for Welfare Work?

MARGARET ATWOOD

  • First Job

MIRIAM TOEWS

  • A Father’s Faith

SUSAN SONTAG

  • from Regarding the Pain of Others

MARK BEEMAN, ET AL.

  • from Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

  • Consider the Lobster

JAN WONG

  • from Coming Clean

BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

  • How to Write about Africa

MALCOLM GLADWELL

  • None of the Above: What I.Q. Doesn’t Tell You about Race

FABRIZIO BENEDETTI, ANTONELLA POLLO, AND LUANA COLLOCA

  • Opioid-Mediated Placebo Responses Boost Pain Endurance and Physical Performance: Is It Doping in Sport Competitions?

DANIEL HEATH JUSTICE

  • Fear of a Changeling Moon

EULA BISS

  • Time and Distance Overcome

MARILYN WANN

  • from Fat Studies: An Invitation to Revolution

AI WEIWEI

  • Heartless
  • Let Us Forget

LUIS W. ALVAREZ, WALTER ALVAREZ, FRANK ASARO, AND HELEN V. MICHEL

  • from Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

ELIZABETH KOLBERT

  • The Sixth Extinction?

IRENE PEPPERBERG, JENNIFER VICINAY, AND PATRICK CAVANAUGH

  • Processing of the Müller-Lyer Illusion by a Grey Parrot

IRENE PEPPERBERG

  • from Alex & Me:: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

MARINA KEEGAN

  • Why We Care about Whales

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

  • from Eating Animals

JEANETTE ARMSTRONG

  • En’owkin: What It Means to a Sustainable Community

NEAL MCLEOD

  • Cree Poetic Discourse

KRISTEN GILCHRIST

  • from Newsworthy Victims? Exploring Differences in Canadian Press Coverage of Missing/Murdered Aboriginal and White Women

MICHAEL HARRIS

  • The Unrepentant Whore

RYKA AOKI

  • On Living Well and Coming Free

J WALLACE

  • The Manly Art of Pregnancy

ZADIE SMITH

  • Generation Why

EDEN ROBINSON

  • from The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols and Storytelling

AMY SCHALET

  • from Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex

IAN NICHOLSON

  • from “Torture at Yale”: Experimental Subjects, Laboratory Torment and the “Rehabilitation” of Milgram’s “Obedience to Authority”

PICO IYER

  • The Terminal Check

ETHAN KROSS, ET AL.

  • from Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults

NADINE BACHAN

  • Ol’ Talk

CARL WILSON

  • I Knew About Jian Ghomeshi

JESSAMYN HOPE

  • The Reverse

IRA BOUDWAY

  • NBA Refs Learned They Were Racist, and That Made Them Less Racist

REBECCA SOLNIT

  • Climate Change Is Violence
  • The Mother of All Questions

CLAUDIA RANKINE

  • from Citizen: An American Lyric [On Serena Williams]

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES

  • How School Segregation Divides Ferguson—and the United States

TA-NEHISI COATES

  • The Case for Reparations

NICHOLAS KRISTOF

  • When Whites Just Don’t Get It
  • When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 6

LAWRENCE G. PROULX

  • A Group You Can Safely Attack

ROXANE GAY

  • Bad Feminist: Take One

NOURIEL ROUBINI

  • Economic Insecurity and the Rise of Nationalism

SARAH DE LEEUW

  • Soft Shouldered

MARGO PFEIFF

  • When the Vikings Were in Nunavut

JAMES SUROWIECKI

  • A Fair Day’s Wage

JONATHAN M. METZL AND KENNETH T. MACLEISH

  • from Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms

NATHANAEL JOHNSON

  • Is There a Moral Case for Meat?

MICHAEL POLLAN

  • Why “Natural” Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore

LAILA LALAMI

  • My Life as a Muslim in the West’s “Gray Zone”

SARAH KURCHAK

  • Autistic People Are Not Tragedies

EMILY NUSSBAUM

  • The Price Is Right: What Advertising Does to TV

RACHEL MORAN

  • Buying Sex Should Not Be Legal

DESMOND COLE

  • The Skin I’m In

CARISSA HALTON

  • from A Different Kind of Simakanis

MARGARET MACMILLAN

  • from History’s People: Personalities and the Past [Victor Klemperer]

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF CANADA

  • from Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

BARTON SWAIM

  • How Trump’s Language Works for Him

ANDREW COYNE

  • Guarantee a Minimum Income, not a Minimum Wage

ANONYMOUS [THE TORONTO STAR]

  • Basic Income is Tempting, but It Could Backfire

ALEX BOZIKOVIC

  • Chicago Architect Aims to Repair Relations between Police, Residents

GLORIA GALLOWAY

  • Dr. Bjorn Lomborg Argues the Climate Change Fight Isn’t Worth the Cost

JONATHAN KAY

  • How Political Correctness is Hurting the Poor

MALIK JALAL

  • I’m on the Kill List. This Is What It Feels Like to Be Hunted by Drones

ROSS FINNIE, KAVEH AFSHAR, EDA BOZKURT, MASASHI MIYAIRI, AND DEJAN PAVLIC

  • from Barista or Better? New Evidence on the Earnings of Post-Secondary Education Graduates: A Tax Linkage Approach

BARRIE MCKENNA

  • It’s Time to Retire the Myth of the Educated Barista

NATHAN HELLER

  • The Failure of Facebook Democracy

DOUG SAUNDERS

  • Don’t Blame Dark Voting Trends on Online Thought Bubbles

RON SRIGLEY

  • from Pass, Fail

DARRYL WHETTER

  • The Kids are Alright

GEOFFREY YORK

  • Could a Legal Horn “Harvest” and Trade Save the Rhino?

NAOMI KLEIN

  • from Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World

CHARLOTTE MCDONALD-GIBSON

  • The Human Face of the Refugee Crisis

ADAM GOPNIK

  • Does Mein Kampf Remain a Dangerous Book?

JUSTICE WILLIAM B. HORKINS

  • from The Ghomeshi Verdict

KATIE TOTH

  • After Not Guilty: On Sexual Assault and the Carceral State

ANONYMOUS [THE ECONOMIST]

  • from Pocket World in Figures 2016

MARY ROGAN

  • from Growing Up Trans: When Do Children Know Their True Gender?

JACQUELINE ROSE

  • from Who Do You Think You Are?

DENISE BALKISSON

  • Migrant Farm Workers Deserve Better from Canada

JUSTIN TRUDEAU

  • from Canada Day Speech, 1 July 2016

BARACK OBAMA

  • A More Perfect Union
  • Remarks by the President in Eulogy for the Honourable Reverend Clementa Pinckney
  • from Farewell Address

CATHAL KELLY

  • Tim Raines Is a Poster Boy for Sports Injustice, But His Snub Doesn’t Deserve Our Obsession

JOSÉ LUIS PARDO VEIRAS

  • A Decade of Failure in the War on Drugs

TRAVIS LUPICK

  • Our Fentanyl Crisis

TIMOTHY D. SNYDER

  • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

DAVID FRUM

  • from How to Build an Autocracy

SUE DONALDSON AND WILL KYMLICKA

  • Born Allies: Child and Animal Citizens

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

Laura Buzzard and Don LePan are co-authors of The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms (2014) and of How to Be Good with Words (forthcoming, 2017); Nora Ruddock and Alexandria Stuart are, respectively, Developmental Editor and Assistant Editor, at Broadview Press.

  • Flexible organization: selections appear chronologically with alternative tables of contents to facilitate teaching by subject matter and/or rhetorical category
  • Paired and grouped selections addressing the same subject with different viewpoints or for different audiences
  • Classic essays from Montaigne and Jonathan Swift to Virginia Woolf and Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Essays on contemporary issues such as
    • — climate change
    • — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
    • — the Jian Ghomeshi trial
    • — Facebook
    • — Donald Trump
    • — postsecondary education in the humanities
  • Diverse forms of prose including blog posts, op-ed pieces, academic articles, pieces from online news sources, historically significant speeches, and lyric essays
  • More diverse authors, including, for example, more First Nations writers and women writers than in previous Canadian editions
  • Unobtrusive, helpful apparatus including contextualizing headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and discussion questions
  • Student website featuring additional readings and interactive writing exercises
  • Additional explanatory notes for English Language Learners available on the student website
  • Improved instructor website with additional discussion questions and background information, now also offering suggestions for approaching selected pieces in the classroom

An instructor site hosts an instructor’s guide composed, for the most part, of questions for discussion beyond those provided on the student website.

The student site hosts additional readings as well as notes that may be of use to students learning English as an additional language, students who are new to Canada, and any other students who would benefit from further annotation than that provided in the bound book.

The student site also includes writing exercises; links to websites providing reliable information on spelling, grammar, and style; and sample student and scholarly essays in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles.