Unit1 1
Part 1 On Getting on in the World&Jerome K.Jerome 1
Background Information 1
Detailed Studies of the Text 2
Key to the Exercises 6
Part 2 Some Remarks on Humor&E.B.White 11
Background Information 11
Detailed Studies of the Text 12
Key to the Exercises 13
Unit2 16
Part 1 Conspiracy Theory?&Gregory Shafer 16
Background Information 16
Detailed Studies of the Text 18
Key to the Exercises 22
Part 2 The Trouble with Tolerance&J.Eric Hazell 28
Background Information 28
Detailed Studies of the Text 30
Key to the Exercises 32
Unit3 35
Part 1 Once More to the Lake&E.B.White 35
Background Information 35
Detailed Studies of the Text 37
Key to the Exercises 40
Part 2 "In My Day..."&Russell Baker 46
Background Information 46
Detailed Studies of the Text 46
Key to the Exercises 49
Unit4 52
Part 1 The Chrysanthemums&John Steinbeck 52
Background Information 52
Detailed Studies of the Text 53
Key to the Exercises 56
Part 2 The Bet&Anton Chekhov 60
Background Information 60
Detailed Studies of the Text 61
Key to the Exercises 63
Unit5 66
Part 1 Living in Tongues&Luc Sante 66
Background Information 66
Detailed Studies of the Text 66
Key to the Exercises 73
Part 2 Waiting&Edna O'Brien 77
Background Information 77
Detailed Studies of the Text 77
Key to the Exercises 79
Unit6 81
Part 1 The Reach of the Imagination&Jacob Bronowski 81
Background Information 81
Detailed Studies of the Text 82
Key to the Exercises 99
Part 2 Creationism Isn't Science&Niles Eldredge 103
Background Information 103
Detailed Studies of the Text 105
Key to the Exercises 110
Unit7 113
Part 1 Notes on My Mother&Hilton Als 113
Background Information 113
Detailed Studies of the Text 114
Key to the Exercises 121
Part 2 My Remarkable Uncle&Stephen Leacock 124
Background Information 124
Detailed Studies of the Text 124
Key to the Exercises 128
Unit8 130
Part 1 The Black Wedding&Isaac Bashevis Singer 130
Background Information 130
Detailed Studies of the Text 133
Key to the Exercises 146
Part 2 A Country Doctor&Franz Kafka 150
Background Information 150
Detailed Studies of the Text 151
Key to the Exercises 152
Unit9 155
Part 1 Humanism in the 21st Century&Babu Gogineni 155
Background Information 155
Detailed Studies of the Text 157
Key to the Exercises 160
Part 2 Everything I Like about Religion I Learned from an Atheist&Barbara Ehrenreich 165
Background Information 165
Detailed Studies of the Text 168
Key to the Exercises 173
Unit10 175
Part 1 Art for Art's Sake&E.M.Forster 175
Background Information 175
Detailed Studies of the Text 178
Key to the Exercises 181
Part 2 Science Fiction:Imaginary Worlds & Real-Life Questions&Noel Perrin 185
Background Information 185
Detailed Studies of the Text 186
Key to the Exercises 189
Unit11 191
Part 1 On the Relation between Art and Society&Theodor Adorno 191
Background Information 191
Detailed Studies of the Text 192
Key to the Exercises 197
Part 2 The Death of the Author&Roland Barthes 201
Background Information 201
Detailed Studies of the Text 201
Key to the Exercises 203
Unit12 206
Part 1 The Visit to the Museum&Vladimir Nabokov 206
Background Information 206
Detailed Studies of the Text 210
Key to the Exercises 213
Part 2 The Leonardo&Vladimir Nabokov 217
Background Information 217
Detailed Studies of the Text 217
Key to the Exercises 221