The Conscious Reader Book

Rhetorical Contents

Preface

THE SEARCH FOR SELF

NOTEBOOK

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Praetor Violet

ARYEH LEV STOLLMAN, Die Grosse Liebe (including Leander photo)

URSULA MELENDI, All of Heaven for Love

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

ANNIE DILLARD, So This Was Adolescence

GREG GRAFFIN, Anarchy in the Tenth Grade

NANCY MAIRS, On Being a Cripple

JORGE LUIS BORGES, Borges and I

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How it Feels to Be Colored Me

FICTION

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Indian Camp

SANDRA CISNEROS, Hips

POETRY

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

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: PARENTS AND CHILDREN NOTEBOOK

THOMAS LYNCH, The Way We Are

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

ESSAYS

THE KORAN, Sura 12. Joseph

FICTION

EDWIDGE DANTICAT, Selection from Breath, Eyes, Memory

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Use of Force

ELIZABETH SPENCER, Instrument of Destruction

POETRY

BOB DYLAN, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: MEN AND WOMEN

NOTEBOOK

LEO BRAUDY, Arms and the Man

JARED DIAMOND, What are Men Good For?

ESSAYS

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Angel in the House

MARGARET ATWOOD, Fiction: Happy Endings

FICTION

KATE CHOPIN A Respectable Woman

POETRY

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

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Garden of Love

RITA DOVE, Beauty and the Beast

GREGORY CORSO, Marriage

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

THE CULTURAL TRADITION: POPULAR CULTURE

NOTEBOOK

GLORIA STEINEM, Wonder Woman

MARINA WARNER, Fantasy’s Power and Peril

ESSAYS

ROGER EBERT, Great Movies

ERIC SCHLOSSER, Fast Food Nation

RANDALL KENNEDY, The N-Word

JULIAN JOHNSON, Who Needs Classical Music?

POETRY

SONIA SANCHEZ, A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald

THE CULTURAL TRADITION: ART, THE ARTIST, AND SOCIETY

NOTEBOOK

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

STEPHEN KING, Selection from On Writing

ESSAYS

E.M. FORSTER, Art for Art’s Sake

CRISTIAN AMIGO, Intervention #1: Musical Openings

JOHN BERGER, Uses of Photography

JORN JACOB ROHWER, The Art of Conversation: How Spoken Words Turn Into Writing, and Arthur Miller: I’ve Never Been a Hero

FICTION

WILLA CATHER, The Sculptor’s Funeral

POETRY

CATE MARVIN, Ocean is a Word in this Poem

WALT WHITMAN, Poets to Come

SCIENCE, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE FUTURE

NOTEBOOK

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Why I Went Out into the Woods

EDWARD O. WILSON, A Letter to Thoreau

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

FREEMAN DYSON, Can Science Be Ethical?

ESSAYS

ALAN TENNANT, Great Plains of the Arctic

MATT RIDLEY, Free Will

NILES ELDREDGE, Creationism Isn’t Science

BARBARA GOLDSMITH, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

SHIREEN LEE, The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism

POETRY

AFFONSO ROMANO DeSANT’ANNA, Letter to the Dead

FREEDOM AND HUMAN DIGNITY

NOTEBOOK

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a Dream

DOROTHY DAY, Martin Luther King

ESSAYS

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT, Seneca Falls Convention

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Nobel Prize Award Speech

GEORGE ORWELL, The Principles of Newspeak

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

PLATO, The Crito

MARY GORDON, A Moral Choice

POETRY

REYNOLDS PRICE, Tom, Dying of AIDS

MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach

GLOBALISM, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

NOTEBOOK

ADAM GOPNIK, The City and the Pillars

ANTHONY SHADID, Legacy of the Prophet

ELIE WIESEL, Why I am an American

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Hispanic

ESSAYS

SUSAN SONTAG, Regarding the Pain of Others

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

CARSON McCULLERS, Loneliness … an American Malady

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

DRAMA

TONY KUSHNER, Homebody/Kabul

POETRY

TED KOOSER, Prisoners from the Front

KATHA POLLITT, Night Subway

THE EXAMINED LIFE: EDUCATION

NOTEBOOK

MALCOLM X, A Homemade Education

ANTON CHEKHOV, The Bet

ESSAYS

REYNOLDS PRICE, The Great Imagination Heist

JOAN E. HARTMAN, What We Did and Why We Did It

LEWIS THOMAS, Humanities and Science

KEVIN FINNERAN, The Merits of Meritocracy

GEOFFREY NUNBERG , Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea

POETRY

LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B