Fields of Writing: Readings Across the Disciplines

by Nancy R. Comley, Carl H. Klaus, Robert Scholes

Readings Across the Disciplines, 4th Edition, published by St. Martin's Press, attributed to Nancy R. Comley, Queens College, CUNY, David Hamilton, University of Iowa, Carl H. Klaus, University of Iowa, Robert Scholes, Brown University, and Nancy Sommers, Harvard University. The main text includes 794 pages, also included is 72 pages of a supplement intitles "Instructor's Manual to Accompany Fields of Writing", separate ISBN number 0-312-08662-8.

Genres: Writing

794 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Professor and Chair of the English Department at Queens College, City University of New York. In addition to Fields, she has co-edited The Practice of Writing and Text Book for Bedford/St. Martin's, and is co-author with Robert Scholes of Hemingway's Genders (Yale UP).

She is an established expert, often writing on modernist literature, composition, and Hemingway.

Reviews

[Nate]

I had to read a lot of this for an English class when I was 21 years old. I became fascinated with how politically charged and preachy this text was and I read the whole thing as a study. I think it's perfectly disgusting how education in the U.S. has become so corrupted. So that the goal is not to educate but to indoctrinate.

Much of the book is dishonest and misleading. I will say however that most of it is very interesting to read.