Perspectives : The nature of adolescence / John E. Horrocks ; Some reflections on schoolboy psychology / Sigmund Freud ; Growing up in America / Max Lerner ; The function of male initiation ceremonies / John W.M. Whiting, Richard Kluckholm, and Albert Anthony ; What is an initiation story? / Mordechai Marcus -- Blood rites : The deerslayer / James Fenimore Cooper ; The promise / John Steinbeck ; Open winter / H.L. Davis -- Disenchantment : Old times on the Mississippi / Mark Twain ; The pupil / Henry James ; The eve of the Fourth / Harold Frederic ; Total stranger / James Gould Cozzens ; Battle royal / Ralph Ellison ; The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud ; Homecoming / Charles Webb -- Fearful confrontations : My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Redburn / Herman Melville ; An experiment in misery / Stephen Crane ; I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson ; The disinherited / Jo Pagano ; Goin" to town / Wallace Stegner ; Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren.
