The Conscious Reader
by Caroline Shrodes, Harry Finestone, Michael Francis Shugrue
1988 · Paperback
ISBN 9780024103611
Book details
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- ISBN-13
- 9780024103611
- ISBN-10
- 0024103616
- Pages
- 1,146
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
About this book
The Conscious Reader is an exceptionally rich, thematic anthology of nonfiction prose and literary works, with a multidisciplinary and culturally diverse selection of readings. Renowned for the quality of its selections, The Conscious Reader represents a broad range of academic disciplines and interests, including art, cultural studies, education, psychology, philosophy, politics, science, technology, and environmental studies. The 168 selections also represent a wide range of genres: 25 personal reminiscences, 81 essays, 22 short stories, 36 poems, 2 plays, and 4 full-color paintings. They range from the classical (Plato's Crito) to the contemporary (Maya Angelou, Roger Rosenblatt, and Kenzaburo Oe).
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