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LEADER: 03448cam a2200361 a 4500
001 2009047337
003 DLC
005 20141121081240.0
008 091117s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009047337
020 $a9781400062034 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a1400062039
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn467925513
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050 00 $aPS169.E83$bC65 2010
082 00 $a820.9/355$222
100 1 $aColes, Robert.
245 10 $aHanding one another along :$bliterature and social reflection /$cRobert Coles ; edited by Trevor Hall and Vicki Kennedy.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2010.
300 $axxiv, 273 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHeading out: the literary and journalistic documentary tradition of social observation: the call to venture outside of what we know, and attend the stories of others. Featured: James Agee, George Orwell, and William Carlos Williams -- When strangers meet: meeting so-called ordinary American working class men and women: courage, challenge, kindness and complexity in everyday living. Featured: the old ones of New Mexico, Raymond Carver, Edward Hopper, Tillie Olsen, and Ruby Bridges -- A storytelling humanity: ways of seeing race and identity: viewing encounters through the eyes of others and finding grace. Featured: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neal Hurston -- Bringing it home: intellectuals and the religious search: finding meaning in the life given to us with stories as our guide. Featured: Dorothy Day, John Cheever, Walker Percy, Simone Weil, and a potato chip truck -- Boundaries and breakthroughs: finding simple clarity amidst moral, psychological and social complexity. Featured: Paul Gauguin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot -- Afterword: a course's history -- A reading list for life: the syllabus from the Harvard course, "A literature of social reflection".
520 $aDr. Coles shows how the work of writers, artists, and thinkers of the past two centuries can inspire our own reflections on our daily lives. He offers a compelling call to venture outside our own selves and lives and to listen, attentively and with growing humanity, to the way others get through life, and he encourages us to examine our own character, kindness, and complexity by studying the wisdom of authors from Charles Dickens to Flannery O'Connor, from James Agee to George Orwell, and many others. In this influential conversation about empathy and engagement, Coles inspires us to seek out deeper meaning in our lives and guides us toward achieving greater clarity, strength, and richness of understanding amid the moral, psychological, and social complexities of the modern world. --Publisher's description from dust cover.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aLiterature and morals.
650 0 $aLiterature and society.
700 1 $aHall, Trevor H.
700 1 $aKennedy, Vicki.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2009047337-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2009047337-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2009047337-s.html