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Conscious Reader, The, 9/E
Caroline Shrodes, Late, The Union Institute
Harry Finestone, California State University, Northridge
Michael Shugrue, The College of Staten Island, CUNY

ISBN-10: 0321160746
ISBN-13: 9780321160744

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 1056 pp
Published: 06/17/2003

This item has been replaced by Conscious Reader, The, 11/E.

Through eight editions, this classic thematic anthology has been hailed for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, memoirs, stories, poems, plays, and fine art.

Renowned for the quality of its selections, The Conscious Reader presents 170 pieces representing a range of genres: 29 personal reminiscences, 70 essays, 18 short stories, 42 poems, 2 plays, and 9 pieces of full-color art. Featuring a wide array of culturally diverse authors and fascinating topics, the readings also cover a broad range of academic disciplines, including art, cultural studies, education, psychology, philosophy, politics, science, technology, and environmental studies. The works range from the classical—Plato's Crito—to the contemporary—Maya Angelou, Roger Rosenblatt, and Tony Kushner. Brief, flexible apparatus includes an introduction to each theme and helpful headnotes, discussion questions, and writing assignments for each selection.

Selections are grouped by genre—Personal Reminiscences, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama—under 10 universal themes that move students from questions about self-discovery and relationships to larger issues of culture, science, and technology and the goals of human freedom and dignity.

Over half of the selections are non-fiction prose pieces—29 personal reminiscences and 70 essays—that range from personal to expository to argumentative writing.

An alternate rhetorical table of contents makes this a flexible collection for any teaching approach.

A detailed Instructor's Manual includes a discussion of every selection in the text.

Fifty-seven new selections represent such authors as Sandra Cisneros, Randall Kennedy, Richard Rodriguez, and Amy Tan.

Nine pieces of full-color art and nine black-and-white photos provide visual prompts for class discussion, a unique feature among this text's competitors.

The international selection of literature is broadened with the inclusion of V.S. Naipaul's Nobel speech and selections from Roland Barthes and Affonso Romano DeSant'Anna.

Provocative new selections on popular culture include pieces by Roger Ebert, John Balzar, Nick Hornby, and Sonia Sanchez.

Two new plays—Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and Ric Oquita's Vaness and Ricardo—have been added.

* Indicates new selection.

Rhetorical Contents.

Preface.

1. Art and Composition.

*WILL WILSON-Convexed (2002).

CHRISTIAN J. MATUSCHEK, A Midsummer Night's Scene, June 21, 2002.

*STEVEN J. LEVINE, Red (2001).

*JULES FRANCK MANDOLINI, Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (1992).

ROBERT WILSON, Station 8, The Daughter's of Jerusalem (2000).

*GERARD DAVID (1455-1523), Virgin and Child with four Angels.

*JENNIFER CHAI HAN CHANG, Untitled (Subway) (2002).

*Kate Lehman, Michael and Elise.

*KEITH HARING, Untitled.

2. The Search for Self.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

ANNIE DILLARD, So This Was Adolescence.

GREG GRAFFIN, Anarchy in the Tenth Grade.

JORGE LUIS BORGES, Borges and I.

JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood.

ALICE WALKER, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How it Feels to Be Colored Me.

ESSAYS.

JAMES BALDWIN, The Discovery of What it Means to be an American.

CARSON McCULLERS, Loneliness ... an American Malady.

BRUNO BETTELHEIM, The Child's Need for Magic.

* REYNOLDS PRICE , The Great Imagination Heist.

FICTION.

*NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Minister's Black Veil.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Indian Camp.

* EMMA DONOGHUE, The Tale of the Rose.

* SANDRA CISNEROS, Hips.

POETRY.

T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

DYLAN THOMAS, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower.

DENISE LEVERTOV, In Mind.

ANNE SEXTON, Her Kind.

*CARL DENNIS, The God Who Loves You.

3. Personal Relationships: Parents and Children.

LETTERS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

FRANZ KAFKA, Letter to His Father.

*THOMAS LYNCH, The Way We Are.

ESSAYS.

*THE KORAN, Sura 12. Joseph.

*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, Somebody's Baby.

FICTION.

*EDWIDGE DANTICAT, from Breath, Eyes, Memory.

*PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, The Trouble with the World.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Use of Force.

LOUISE ERDRICH, A Wedge of Shade.

POETRY.

*BOB DYLAN, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding).

*DIANE DiPRIMA, To My Father.

E. E. CUMMINGS, my father moved through dooms of love.

SYLVIA PLATH, Daddy.

THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa's Waltz.

W. B. YEATS, A Prayer for My Daughter.

*GWENDOLYN BROOKS, “Life for my child is simple, and is good”.

4. Personal Relationships: Men and Women.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

*ANDREW SULLIVAN, If Love Were All.

ESSAYS.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

D.H. LAWRENCE, Give Her a Pattern.

VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Angel in the House.

*JARED DIAMOND, “What Are Men Good For?” BETTY FRIEDAN, The Quiet Movement of American Men.

MARGARET ATWOOD, Fiction: Happy Endings.

FICTION.

KATE CHOPIN, A Respectable Woman.

CARSON McCULLERS, The Sojourner.

RAYMOND CARVER, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, Rope.

*JAMES P. WHITE, New York City, 1968: The DeValders.

POETRY.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29).

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116).

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Clod and the Pebble.

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Garden of Love.

W.H. AUDEN, Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love.

*ROBERT BLY, After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem.

*GREGORY CORSO, Marriage.

*MARK STRAND, The Marriage.

*PHILIP LEVINE, The Two.

E. E. CUMMINGS,I like my body when it is with yours.

MAY SWENSON, Women.

DRAMA.

RIC OQUITA, Vanessa and Ricardo.

5. The Cultural Tradition: Popular Culture.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

*GLORIA STEINEM, Wonder Woman.

BERNICE REAGON, Black Music in Our Hands.

ESSAYS.

*ROGER EBERT, Great Movies.

JOHN BALZAR, The Internet or a .45, It's Robbery of the Artist.

*NICK HORNBY, I'm Like a Bird.

*RANDALL KENNEDY, “The Protean N-Word.”

ROGER ANGELL, On the Ball.

*MOLLY HASKELL, Bearded Ladies: Women in Comedy.

POETRY.

*SONIA SANCHEZ, A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald.

6. The Cultural Tradition: Art and Society.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

*STEPHEN KING, Selection from On Writing.

EUDORA WELTY, Finding a Voice.

RALPH ELLISON, On Becoming a Writer.

ESSAYS.

AARON COPLAND, How We Listen to Music.

*DAVID DUBAL, The Essential Canon of Classical Music: The Age of Modernism.

*DAVID BAYLES AND TED ORLAND, “The Nature of the Problem”

E.M. FORSTER, Art for Art's Sake.

MARGARET ATWOOD, Pornography.

*JOHN BERGER, Uses of Photography.

E. L. DOCTOROW, Ultimate Discourse.

*DANIEL HENNINGER, Is Ground Zero a Fit Subject for High Art?

*FRAN LEBOWITZ, Soho: Or, not at home to Mr. Art.

NOEL PERRIN, Science Fiction: Imaginary Worlds and Real-Life Questions.

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, Playing Upon the Strings of Emptiness.

FICTION.

WILLA CATHER, The Sculptor's Funeral.

POETRY.

MARIANNE MOORE, Poetry.

RITA DOVE, Beauty and the Beast.

LI-YOUNG LEE, Persimmons.

*WALT WHITMAN, Poets to Come.

7. Science, the Environment, and the Future.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

FREEMAN DYSON, Can Science Be Ethical?

*SUSANNE ANTONETTA, Trailing Clouds.

ESSAYS.

FRANCIS BACON, Idols of the Mind.

ALAN B. DURNING, Asking How Much is Enough.

GINA KOLATA, A Clone is Born.

DAVE BARRY, The Internet.

WILLIAM CRONON, The Trouble with Wilderness.

*MATT RIDLEY, Free Will.

NILES ELDREDGE, Creationism Isn't Science.

JOHN P. WILEY, JR., Expressions: The Visible Link.

POETRY.

WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learned Astronomer.

8. Freedom and Human Dignity.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Hispanic.

*ARNIE KANTROWITZ, Selection from Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay.

W. E. B. DU BOIS, On Being Crazy.

RICHARD WRIGHT, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.

ESSAYS.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence.

THOMAS JEFFERSON,The Declaration of the Rights of Man.

SENECA FALLS CONVENTION, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address.

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a Dream.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Nobel Prize Award Speech.

HARRIET JACOBS, The Women.

CHIEF JOSEPH, His Message of Surrender.

CHIEF SEATTLE, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott.

GEORGE ORWELL, The Principles of Newspeak.

PLATO, The Crito.

MARY GORDON, A Moral Choice.

SHELBY STEELE, On Being Black and Middle Class.

ALICE KAPLAN, War on Trial.

*ISAIAH BERLIN, Notes on Prejudice.

*ANDREW GROSSO, The Individual in the New Age.

FICTION.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Dry September.

RAY BRADBURY, Perhaps We Are Going Away.

POETRY.

WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation.

WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est.

W. H. AUDEN, The Unknown Citizen.

*REYNOLDS PRICE, Tom, Dying of AIDS.

DRAMA.

*TONY KUSHNER, Homebody/Kabul.

9. The Examined Life: Education.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

*EDNA O'BRIEN, The Books We Read.

MALCOLM X, A Homemade Education.

MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation.

ESSAYS.

ITALO CALVINO, Why Read the Classics?

*LOUIS MENAND, College: The End of the Golden Age.

LEWIS THOMAS, Humanities and Science.

HOWARD GARDNER, Human Intelligence Isn't What We Think It Is.

ROLAND BARTHES, The Death of the Author.

SHERRY TURKLE, Seeing Through Computers.

KEVIN FINNERAN, The Merits of Meritocracy.

GEOFFREY NUNBERG, Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism.

*NICHOLSON BAKER, Destroying to Preserve.

FICTION.

AMY TAN, Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game.

POETRY.

LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B.

*TED HUGHES, Hear it Again.

10. The Examined Life: Personal Values.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

*V. S. NAIPAUL, Two Worlds: Nobel Lecture 2001.

NANCY MAIRS, On Being a Cripple.

CATHERINE R. STIMPSON, Learning to See the Miraculous.

EDWARD HOAGLAND, A Last Look Around.

FRANCINE PROSE, Bad Behavior.

RICHARD FORD, Where Does Writing Come From?

ESSAYS.

*THOMAS MERTON, Love Can be Kept Only by Being Given Away.

RONALD DWORKIN, Life is Sacred: That's the Easy Part.

MAY SARTON, The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Why I Went Out into the Woods.

*EDWARD O. WILSON, A Letter to Thoreau.

HELEN KELLER, Three Days to See.

*FICTION.

ANTON CHEKHOV, The Bet.

POETRY.

MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach.

MARK LEVINE, About Face (A Poem Called “Dover Beach”).

*MARCY JELLISON, Inner Sanctum.

MARIANNE MOORE, The Mind is an Enchanted Thing.

THEODORE ROETHKE, The Waking.

JORGE LUIS BORGES, The Web.

*AFFONSO ROMANO DeSANT'ANNA, Letter to the Dead.

Glossary.

Author/Artist and Title Index.

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