The Conscious Reader

by Shrodes, Caroline; Shugrue, Michael; DiPaolo, Marc F.; Matuschek, Christian

• ISBN13: 9780321366047
• ISBN10: 0321366042
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This classic thematic anthology, long hailed for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, memoirs, stories, poems, and plays, offers a wide array of diverse authors, fascinating topics, and academic disciplines including art, cultural studies, education, psychology, philosophy, politics, science, technology, and environmental studies. Readings range from the classical-Plato's Crito-to the contemporary-Tony Kushner, Adam Gopnick, and Edwige Danticat. Brief, flexible apparatus includes an introduction to each theme and helpful headnotes, discussion questions, and writing assignments for each selection. A truly distinguishing feature of The Conscious Reader is its cutting-edge collection of classic and contemporary fine art and photographs, selected by visual artist Christian Matuschek, and accompanied by writing prompts designed to provoke discussion and analysis. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Art and Composition
I Once Was Lost	p. 11
Self-portrait, Nov. 6, 2003	p. 12
Self-portrait in Furcoat	p. 13
The Great Helmsman	p. 14
Rockefeller Center	p. 15
Orchestrating the Drama	p. 16
Autopsy with Brain	p. 16
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider	p. 17
Judith and Her Maidservant	p. 17
The Mystery Play, 1994	p. 18
The Search for Self
Notebook
Prater Violet	p. 22
Influences	p. 28
Personal Reminiscences
So This Was Adolescence	p. 36
Anarchy in the Tenth Grade	p. 39
On Being a Cripple	p. 43
Borges and I	p. 54
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	p. 55
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	p. 63
Fiction
Indian Camp	p. 68
Hips	p. 72
Get Lost	p. 75
Poetry
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 82
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	p. 87
In Mind	p. 89
Her Kind	p. 90
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	p. 92
The Waking	p. 94
The God Who Loves You	p. 96
Personal Relationships: Parents and Children
Notebook
Die Grosse Liebe	p. 100
All of Heaven for Love	p. 112
Personal Reminiscences
The Way We Are	p. 116
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood	p. 121
Essays
Sura 12. Joseph	p. 126
Somebody's Baby	p. 133
Fiction
Selection from Breath, Eyes, Memory	p. 139
The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the Trouble with the World	p. 145
The Use of Force	p. 152
A Wedge of Shade	p. 157
Instrument of Destruction	p. 166
Poetry
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)	p. 172
To My Father	p. 176
My father moved through dooms of love	p. 177
Daddy	p. 180
My Papa's Waltz	p. 183
A Prayer for My Daughter	p. 184
"Life for my child is simple, and is good"	p. 187
Personal Relatinships: Men and Women
Notebook
Arms and the Man	p. 190
What Are Men Good For?	p. 205
Personal Reminiscences
If Love Were All	p. 215
Essays
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	p. 223
Give Her a Pattern	p. 226
The Angel in the House	p. 230
Fiction: Happy Endings	p. 235
Fiction
A Respectable Woman	p. 241
The Sojourner	p. 245
Poetry
When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29)	p. 254
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)	p. 255
The Clod and the Pebble	p. 256
The Garden of Love	p. 256
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love	p. 257
Beauty and the Beast	p. 259
Women	p. 260
Marriage	p. 262
The Marriage	p. 265
I like my body when it is with your	p. 267
After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem	p. 268
The Cultural Tradition: Popular Culture
Notebook
Wonder Woman	p. 272
Fantasy's Power and Peril	p. 281
Personal Reminiscences
Black Music in Our Hands	p. 286
The Women's Open	p. 290
Essays
Great Movies	p. 296
The Internet	p. 299
You've Got Blog	p. 311
Fast Food Nation	p. 317
Germaine Greer's "Cruelty TV"	p. 327
Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior	p. 330
I'm Like a Bird	p. 337
The Protean N-Word	p. 339
Poetry
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald	p. 350
The Cultural Tradition: Art, the Artist, and Society
Notebook
Two Worlds: Nobel Lecture 2001	p. 356
On Writing	p. 367
On Becoming a Writer	p. 371
Where Does Writing Come From?	p. 378
The Nature of the Problem	p. 384
Essays
Art for Art's Sake	p. 388
Ultimate Discourse	p. 394
Playing Upon the Strings of Emptiness	p. 397
How We Listen to Music	p. 403
The Age of Modernism	p. 409
Who Needs Classical Music?	p. 414
Intervention #1: Musical Openings	p. 417
Pornography	p. 428
Uses of Photography	p. 434
Fiction
The Sculptor's Funeral	p. 443
Poetry
Poetry	p. 455
Persimmons	p. 457
Ocean Is a Word in this Poem	p. 460
Poets to Come	p. 461
Science, the Environment, and the Future
Notebook
Why I Went to the Woods	p. 464
A Letter to Thoreau	p. 470
Personal Reminiscences
Can Science Be Ethical?	p. 481
Essays
Great Plains of the Arctic	p. 491
A Clone Is Born	p. 501
Free Will	p. 516
Creationism Isn't Science	p. 526
Seeing Through Computers	p. 534
The Individual in the New Age	p. 545
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie	p. 550
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism	p. 553
Poetry
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	p. 566
Letter to the Dead	p. 567
Freedom and Human Dignity
Notebook
I Have a Dream	p. 572
Martin Luther King	p. 576
Personal Reminiscences
Growing Up Gay	p. 578
On Being Crazy	p. 582
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow	p. 584
Essays
The Declaration of Independence	p. 595
The Declaration of the Rights of Man	p. 599
Seneca Falls Convention	p. 602
The Gettysburg Address	p. 607
Nobel Prize Award Speech	p. 609
The Principles of Newspeak	p. 611
The Women	p. 622
His Message of Surrender	p. 627
Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott	p. 628
The Crito	p. 632
A Moral Choice	p. 645
The Dramaturgy of Death	p. 653
Fiction
Dry September	p. 666
Poetry
Tom, Dying of AIDS	p. 677
Dover Beach	p. 678
About Face (A Poem Called "Dover Beach")	p. 680
The Dover Bitch	p. 682
Globalism, Nationalism, and Cultural Identity
Notebook
The City and the Pillars	p. 686
Legacy of the Prophet	p. 692
The America I Love	p. 695
Personal Reminiscences
Hispanic	p. 699
Essays
Leading Beyond the Nation-State	p. 711
Regarding the Pain of Others	p. 716
War on Trial	p. 720
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American	p. 730
On Being Black and Middle Class	p. 735
Loneliness...and American Malady	p. 745
Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared	p. 748
Love Can Be Kept Only by Being Given Away	p. 751
Poetry
Dulce et Decorum Est	p. 757
The Unknown Citizen	p. 758
Prisoners from the Front	p. 760
Night Subway	p. 762
Drama
Homebody/Kabul	p. 764
The History of Latin America	p. 789
L'Histoire Chinoise	p. 795
The Examined Life: Education
Notebook
A Homemade Education	p. 800
The Bet	p. 807
Personal Reminiscences
A Last Look Around	p. 814
Three Days to See	p. 823
Essays
The Child's Need for Magic	p. 832
The Great Imagination Heist	p. 840
Science Fiction: Imaginary Worlds and Real-Life Questions	p. 842
What We Did and Why We Did It	p. 847
Bad Behavior	p. 857
Why Read the Classics?	p. 860
The Death of the Author	p. 865
Humanities and Science	p. 870
The Merits of Meritocracy	p. 878
Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea	p. 881
Learning to See the Miraculous	p. 884
Fiction
Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game	p. 890
Poetry
Theme for English B	p. 900
Hear It Again	p. 902
Glossary	p. 905
Credits	p. 913
Author/Artist and Title Index	p. 923
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