The Conscious Reader

by Shrodes, Caroline; Finestone, Harry; Shugrue, Michael; Shrodes, Caroline; Finestone, Harry; Shugrue, Michael Francis

• ISBN13: 9780205319213
• ISBN10: 0205319211
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

The Conscious Reader is an exceptionally rich, thematic anthology of nonfiction prose and literary works, with a multidisciplinary and culturally diverse selection of readings. Renowned for the quality of its selections, The Conscious Reader represents a broad range of academic disciplines and interests, including art, cultural studies, education, psychology, philosophy, politics, science, technology, and environmental studies. The 168 selections also represent a wide range of genres: 25 personal reminiscences, 81 essays, 22 short stories, 36 poems, 2 plays, and 4 full-color paintings. They range from the classical (Plato's Crito) to the contemporary (Maya Angelou, Roger Rosenblatt, and Kenzaburo Oe).

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	xiv
Preface	xix
Art and Composition
Self-Portrait with a Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird	xxxiii
Frida Kahlo
Harriet Tubman	xxxv
Jacob Lawrence
The Luncheon of the Boating Party	xxxvii
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Drowning Girl	xxxix
Roy Lichtenstein
The Search for Self
Personal Reminiscences
So This Was Adolescence	3	(3)
Annie Dillard
Anarchy in the Tenth Grade	6	(4)
Greg Graffin
Borges and I	10	(1)
Jorge Luis Borges
No Name Woman	11	(11)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood	22	(6)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	28	(7)
Alice Walker
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	35	(4)
Zora Neale Hurston
Medfield, Massachusetts	39	(7)
John Preston
Essays
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American	46	(5)
James Baldwin
Some Self-Analysis	51	(2)
Theodore Roethke
Loneliness...An American Malady	53	(3)
Carson McCullers
The Child's Need for Magic	56	(8)
Bruno Bettelheim
The Company Man	64	(3)
Ellen Goodman
Fiction
Indian Camp	67	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
Black Hair	71	(8)
Gary Soto
Poetry
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	79	(5)
T. S. Eliot
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	84	(1)
Dylan Thomas
In Mind	85	(1)
Denise Levertov
Her Kind	86	(4)
Anne Sexton
Personal Relationships: Parents and Children
Letters and Personal Peminiscences
Letter to His Father	90	(7)
Franz Kafka
Portrait of My Father	97	(5)
Susan Cheever
Father Stories	102	(10)
John Edgar Wideman
Grass	112	(15)
Allen Wheelis
Essays
Abortion Fight Is over Choice	127	(3)
Victoria Bissell Brown
Fiction
Dream Pictures	130	(13)
Kenzaburo Oe
Portrait of a Girl in Glass	143	(9)
Tennessee Williams
If the River Was Whiskey	152	(7)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Use of Force	159	(4)
William Carlos Williams
Everything That Rises Must Converge	163	(13)
Flannery O'Connor
What He Was Like	176	(4)
William Maxwell
I Stand Here Ironing	180	(7)
Tillie Olsen
A Wedge of Shade	187	(10)
Louise Erdrich
Poetry
my father moved through dooms of love	197	(2)
E. E. Cummings
Daddy	199	(3)
Sylvia Plath
My Papa's Waltz	202	(1)
Theodore Roethke
A Prayer for My Daughter	203	(2)
William Butler Yeats
``Life for my child is simple, and is good''	205	(4)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Personal Relationships: Men and Women
Essays
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	209	(3)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Give Her a Pattern	212	(4)
D. H. Lawrence
The Angel in the House	216	(5)
Virginia Woolf
The Stereotype	221	(8)
Germaine Greer
The Androgynous Man	229	(3)
Noel Perrin
The Quiet Movement of American Men	232	(14)
Betty Friedan
Fiction: Happy Endings	246	(5)
Margaret Atwood
Fiction
The Birthmark	251	(14)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Respectable Woman	265	(4)
Kate Chopin
The Unicorn in the Garden	269	(2)
James Thurber
The Chrysanthemums	271	(10)
John Steinbeck
The Sojourner	281	(8)
Carson McCullers
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	289	(11)
Raymond Carver
The Fairy Godfathers	300	(6)
John Updike
Rope	306	(7)
Katherine Anne Porter
Poetry
When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29)	313	(2)
William Shakespeare
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)	314	(1)
The Clod and the Pebble	315	(1)
William Blake
The Garden of Love	315	(1)
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love	316	(1)
W. H. Auden
Love Is Not All	317	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
i like my body when it is with your	318	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Women	319	(2)
May Swenson
Just How Do You Suppose That Alice Knows?	321	(2)
Calvin Trillin
Drama
The Man in a Case	323	(9)
Wendy Wasserstein
The Cultural Tradition: Popular Culture
Personal Reminiscences
Miss U.S.A.	332	(6)
Studs Terkel
Essays
Leisure Will Kill You	338	(2)
Art Buchwald
Who Killed Privacy?	340	(5)
Roger Rosenblatt
Black Music in Our Hands	345	(4)
Bernice Reagon
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!	349	(7)
John McMurtry
A Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz	356	(6)
Dave Hickey
Tangled Up in Truth	362	(11)
Mark Edmundson
The Aesthetics of Paranoia	373	(4)
Doug Harvey
On the Ball	377	(11)
Roger Angell
The Cultural Tradition: Art and Society
Personal Reminiscences
Finding a Voice	388	(5)
Eudora Welty
On Becoming a Writer	393	(7)
Ralph Ellison
Essays
How We Listen to Music	400	(5)
Aaron Copland
The Virtue of Prurience	405	(4)
Mike Royko
The Mona Lisa's Enduring Form	409	(7)
Joseph A. Harriss
Art for Art's Sake	416	(6)
E. M. Forster
Pornography	422	(6)
Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction: Imaginary Worlds and Real-Life Questions	428	(6)
Noel Perrin
Ultimate Discourse	434	(3)
E. L. Doctorow
Playing upon the Strings of Emptiness	437	(6)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When the Spirit Moves	443	(11)
Eavan Boland
What's That to Us?	454	(4)
Roger Rosenblatt
Fiction
The Sculptor's Funeral	458	(13)
Willa Cather
Poetry
Poetry	471	(2)
Marianne Moore
Beauty and the Beast	473	(1)
Rita Dove
Persimmons	474	(3)
Li-Young Lee
Tunnel Music	477	(3)
Mark Doty
Science, the Environment, and the Future
Essays
Idols of the Mind	480	(12)
Francis Bacon
Asking How Much Is Enough	492	(5)
Alan B. Durning
Artificial Intelligence	497	(3)
Grant Fjermedal
Is Humanity Suicidal?	500	(10)
Edward O. Wilson
It's a Fact: Faith and Theory Collide over Evolution	510	(3)
George Johnson
Creationism Isn't Science	513	(7)
Niles Eldredge
Seeing Through Computers	520	(11)
Sherry Turkle
Why I Don't Compute	531	(2)
Roger Rosenblatt
Expressions: The Visible Link	533	(4)
John P. Wiley, Jr.
Can Science Be Ethical?	537	(9)
Freeman Dyson
The Internet	546	(13)
Dave Barry
The Trouble with Wilderness	559	(4)
William Cronon
Winged: The Creatures on My Mind	563	(5)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Earth Day 2030	568	(13)
Lester R. Brown
Fiction
Conditioning the Children	581	(3)
Aldous Huxley
Poetry	584	(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	584	(4)
Walt Whitman
Freedom and Human Dignity
Personal Reminiscences
On Being Crazy	588	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow	590	(11)
Richard Wright
Prologue to Exiled: The Winds of Sunset Heights	601	(9)
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Essays
The Declaration of Independence	610	(7)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of the Rights of Man	614	(3)
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	617	(4)
Seneca Falls Convention
The Gettysburg Address	621	(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared	623	(3)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Letter from Birmingham Jail	626	(17)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobel Prize Award Speech	643	(2)
William Faulkner
The Women	645	(5)
Harriet Jacobs
His Message of Surrender	650	(1)
Chief Joseph
Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott	651	(4)
Chief Seattle
The Principles of Newspeak	655	(10)
George Orwell
The Crito	665	(13)
Plato
A Moral Choice	678	(9)
Mary Gordon
On Being Black and Middle Class	687	(11)
Shelby Steele
Smashed Hits	698	(7)
Julian Petley
War on Trial	705	(10)
Alice Kaplan
A Note on the Banality of Evil	715	(8)
Stephen Miller
Fiction
Dry September	723	(10)
William Faulkner
Perhaps We Are Going Away	733	(5)
Ray Bradbury
Poetry
Telephone Conversation	738	(2)
Wole Soyinka
Dulce et Decorum Est	740	(1)
Wilfred Owen
The Unknown Citizen	741	(3)
W. H. Auden
Drama
Antigone	744	(36)
Sophocles
The Examined Life: Education
Personal Reminiscences
A Homemade Education	780	(8)
Malcolm X
Graduation	788	(11)
Maya Angelou
Essays
Humanities and Science	799	(8)
Lewis Thomas
Who's Educated? Who Knows?	807	(3)
Margo Kaufman
Human Intelligence Isn't What We Think It Is	810	(4)
Howard Gardner
Talking Black	814	(9)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Reading, the Most Dangerous Game	823	(6)
Harold Brodkey
The Hidden Teacher	829	(10)
Loren Eiseley
Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment	839	(6)
Jane Gallop
The Merits of Meritocracy	845	(3)
Kevin Finneran
Sharing the Mayhem	848	(5)
Anne Fadiman
Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism	853	(13)
Geoffrey Nunberg
Fiction
The Loudest Voice	866	(6)
Grace Paley
Poetry
Theme for English B	872	(2)
Langston Hughes
The Shakespeare Lesson	874	(1)
Lawrence Raab
Elegy for Jane: My Student, Thrown by a Horse	875	(2)
Theodore Roethke
The Student	877	(2)
Marianne Moore
A Finished Man	879	(3)
Richard Wilbur
The Examined Life: Personal Values
Personal Reminiscences
On Being a Cripple	882	(11)
Nancy Mairs
Learning to See the Miraculous	893	(4)
Catharine R. Stimpson
A Last Look Around	897	(9)
Edward Hoagland
Bad Behavior	906	(3)
Francine Prose
Where Does Writing Come From?	909	(6)
Richard Ford
Essays
Heading into Darkness Once Again	915	(2)
Richard Rodriguez
Life Is Sacred: That's the Easy Part	917	(5)
Ronald Dworkin
The Man Who Was Put in a Cage	922	(6)
Rollo May
Distancing the Homeless	928	(11)
Jonathan Kozol
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life	939	(3)
May Sarton
Why I Went to the Woods	942	(6)
Henry David Thoreau
Three Days to See	948	(9)
Helen Keller
A Small Place	957	(8)
Jamaica Kincaid
Fiction
The Bet	965	(7)
Anton Chekhov
Poetry
Dover Beach	972	(1)
Matthew Arnold
About Face (A Poem Called ``Dover Beach'')	973	(2)
Mark Levine
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	975	(2)
Marianne Moore
The Waking	977	(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Web	978	(3)
Jorge Luis Borges
Glossary	981	(8)
Author/Artist and Title Index	989