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The Conscious Reader
ISBN: 9780321366047 | 0321366042
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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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, disc... MORE
| 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 | ... MORE |
| 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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