Conscious Reader, The

This classic thematic anthology is widely admired for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, personal writing, fiction and poetry, and for its ground-breaking inclusion of classic and contemporary images.

List of contents

Contents
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Preface                                                                                                                                  I.   READING IMAGES                                                       
Scott McCloud: The Language of Comics
E. M. Forster: Art for Art's Sake                                     
Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others                   
**David Wall: It is and It Isn't: Stereotypes, Advertising, and Narrative
Peggy Orenstein: What's Wrong With Cinderella?            
**Chris Sullentrop: Transformers            
**Margaret Atwood: Pornography                                    
Color Art Portfolio
 
II. CONSCIOUS READING, INTELLIGENT WRITING                                      
Notebook    
Stephen King: On Writing                                               
Malcolm X: A Homemade Education                               
Flannery O'Connor:The Teaching of Literature
 
Personal Writing                                        
Virginia Woolf: The Angel in the House                           
 
Essays
Joseph Williams and Greg Colomb: Argument, Critical Thinking, and Rationality        
Patricia Kubis and Robert M. Howland: How to Develop a Good Style                             
**Martha Brockenbrough: Does IM Make U Dum?
**Katie Hafner:Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits
**Julie J.C.H. Ryan: Student Plagiarism in an Online World
 
Fiction                                                                      
**Henry David Thoreau: Reading
 
Poetry
**Taylor Mali: The The Impotence of Proofreading
 
III. PERSONAL VALUES AND RELATIONSHIPS                   
Notebook
**Dan Quayle: Restoring Basic Values                            
Constance Matthiessen: Harry Potter and Divorce Among the  Muggles
 
Personal Writing                
Colin Powell: The Good Soldier
Judith Ortiz Cofer: Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood                                                
Mohandas K. Gandhi: My Faith in Nonviolence                
Jhumpa Lahiri: My Hyphenated Identity                            
Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple                        
Alfred Lubrano: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams                                         
 
Essays         
Benoit Denizet-Lewis: Friends, “Friends with Benefits,” and the Benefits of the Local Mall        
Carson McCullers: Loneliness … an American Malady                                          
 
Fiction
Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman                              
 
Poetry                                                                       
 **Rudyard Kipling: If
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock              
Anne Sexton, Her Kind                                                              
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29, Sonnet 116                   
 
IV. EDUCATION                                                                                        
Notebook
**Samuel G. Freedman: New Class(room) War: Teacher versus Technology                                           
**Maggie Jackson: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age         
                       
Personal Writing                                        
**Katha Pollitt: Summers of Our Discontent                    
 
Essays                                                                                 
**Plato: The Allegory of the Cave                  
**Earl Shorris: Education as a Weapon in the Hands of the  Restless Poor                           
**Drew Gilpin Faust: The University's Crisis of Purpose    
Lewis Thomas:The Humanities and Science
Bruno Bettelheim: The Child's Need for Magic                 
 
Fiction
Anton Chekov: The Bet                                                  
 
Poetry
Langston Hughes: Theme for English B                          
 
V.  POPULAR CULTURE                                                                                                 
Notebook                            
**Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan: Why Vampires Never Die      
**Christine Seifert: Bite Me! (Or Don't!): Twilight as Abstinence Porn
 
Personal Writing
**Michael Albernethy: Male-Bashing on TV                      
**Gloria Steinem: Wonder Woman
 
Essays                                                                     
Steven Levy: Facebook Grows Up                                     
**Jay Weiner: How to Take Back Sports
**Sherry Turkle: Cuddling Up to Cyborg Babies                
Joe Woodard: Pumped, Pierced, Painted, and Pagan          
Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation                                      
                                                           
Fiction
Steven Moffat: “What I Did on My Christmas Holidays” By Sally Sparrow                                                  
 
Poetry
John Lennon: Working Class Hero                                    
 
VI.       ART AND SOCIETY                                                           
Notebook
Melissa Etheridge: Music as a Safe Haven                         
Marilyn Manson: Columbine: Who's Fault is It?                  
**Charles Taylor: The Morality Police
 
            Personal Writing                                        
**Ludwig von Beethoven: The Helligenstadt Testament     
Glenn Kurtz: Practicing                                                    
 
Essays                                                                     
**Andrea Frasier: Why I Would Rather Have a Day Job                
**George Orwell: Politics and the English Language         
Roger Ebert: Great Movies                                                
**Roger Rosenblatt: What's That to Us?  
Pete Rojas: Bootleg Culture                                              
 
Fiction
Willa Cather:The Sculptor's Funeral                                  
 
Poetry
Sonia Sanchez: A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald                        
Walt Whitman: Poets to Come  
VII. SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION             
Notebook
**David Smith: 2050, and Immortality is Within Our Grasp  
Paul Davies: How to Build a Time Machine                         
 
Personal Writing
**Tom Wolfe: One Giant Leap to Nowhere                       
                 
Essays                                                                                 
Stephen Jay Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs                       
David Quammen: Was Darwin Wrong?                               
Nicholas Kristof: Warm, Warmer, Warmest                        
**James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency                          
Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakenomics: The Hidden Side of Everything        
                                                       
Fiction Alan Lightman: A Place Where Time Stands Still               
 
Poetry
**Affonso Romano De'Sant Anna:Letter to the Dead        
 
VIII. FREEDOM AND HUMAN DIGNITY                                       
Notebook
Anya Kamenetz: Generation Debt                      
**Barbara Ehrenreich: Selling in Minnesota                      
 
Personal Writing    
**Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail       
 
Essays Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence    
                        The Declaration of the Rights of Man                                 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott: Seneca Falls Convention                                                      
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address                        
William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Award Speech                     
Chief Seattle: Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott, 1855                                                     
Cornel West: On Affirmative Action                                   
**Andrew Sullivan: A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage  
**Mary Gordon: A Moral Choice                                      
 
Fiction
Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory                                       
 
Poetry
Reynolds Price: Tom, Dying of AIDS                                 
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach                                           
Taha Muhammad Ali: Revenge                                          
 
IX. GLOBALISM, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY                                                                  
Notebook
**Barack Obama: A Lasting Peace
Anthony Shadid: Legacy of the Prophet                                      
Wesley Clark: The Next War
Howard Gardner: Leading Beyond the Nation-State             
 
Personal Writing    
Chris Hedges: The Ten Commandments in America          
**Salman Rushdie:Imagine There's No Heaven               
 
Essays
**Peggy Noonan: The Case for Getting Off Base             
Niccolo Machiavelli: Of Cruelty and Clemency, and
Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared              
Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear                              
**Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism            
Anna Quindlen: Immigration: Newcomers by Numbers        
 
Fiction
Sherman Alexie: What You Pawn I Will Redeem                
 
Poetry
Sarah Littlecrow-Russell: Apology to the Wasps                 
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est           &...

Summary

This classic thematic anthology is widely admired for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, personal writing, fiction and poetry, and for its ground-breaking inclusion of classic and contemporary images.
Renowned for the quality and range of its selections, The Conscious Reader presents over 120 readings representing a range of genres, a wide array of culturally diverse authors and fascinating topics, and 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 Allegory of the Cave-to the contemporary- Jhumpa Lahiri, Peggy Orenstein, and paired essays on the vampire cults in popular culture-and from political figures like Barack Obama and Colin Powell to generational icons like Melissa Etheridge, John Lennon, and You Tube sensation Taylor Mali.  Brief, flexible apparatus includes an introduction to each theme and helpful headnotes, discussion questions, and writing assignments for each selection.  Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of The Conscious Reader is its inclusion of a cutting-edge selection of images designed to provoke discussion and analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Marc F. DiPaolo, Christian Matuschek, Caroline F Shrodes, Michael F Shugrue
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780205803286
• ISBN: 978-0-205-80328-6
• No. of pages: 776
• Weight: 1000 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics