Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mom EssaysĬarson McCullers, Loneliness … an American Malady * Thomas Bierowski, The Red Power Ranger and the Fruit Bat Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood Ursula Melendi, All of Heaven for Love (student writing) Personal Writing Alfred Prufrockĭylan Thomas, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower * Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America Essay
* Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood * Alfred Lubrano, Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams * Eric Brende, Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology Personal Writing Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went into the Woods
* Charles Bukowski, How to Be a Good WriterĬate Marvin, Ocean Is a Word in This Poem * Gregory Bilgere, Once Again I Fail to Read an Important Novel * Richard Russo, The Whore's Child Poetry Margaret Atwood, Fiction: Happy Endings Fiction * Italo Calvino, if on a winter's night a traveler … * Joseph Williams and Greg Colomb, Argument, Critical Thinking, and Rationality * Rainier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet * Flannery O'Connor, The Teaching of Literature On Being a Conscious Reader and an Intelligent Writer (new section)
A detailed Instructor's Manual includes a discussion of every selection in the text.
An alternate rhetorical table of contents makes this a flexible collection for any teaching approach.A section of full-color art and over 30 black-and-white photos provide provocative visual prompts for class discussion.Notebooks at the beginning of each section group together readings that encourage analysis and synthesis around a particular issue.Selections grouped by genre-Personal Writing, Essays, Fiction, and Poetry-under 10 universal themes 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.A wide range of contemporary and classic authors, and of genres and themes, offers a flexible and pedagogically appealing collection of models for good writing.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. Brief, flexible apparatus includes an introduction to each theme and helpful headnotes, discussion questions, and writing assignments for each selection. The works range from the classical-Plato's Crito-to the contemporary- Jhumpa Lahiri and David Gelerntner-and from political figures like Colin Powell and Wesley Clark to generational icons like Melissa Etheridge, John Lennon, and Tupac Shakur. Renowned for the quality and range of its selections, The Conscious Reader presents over 150 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. This classic thematic anthology has long been hailed for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, personal writing, fiction and poetry, and for its ground-breaking inclusion of classic and contemporary images.