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001 2009047337
003 DLC
005 20091118112032.0
008 091117s2010 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009047337
020 $a9781400062034 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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 : lectures of Dr. Robert Coles /$cedited by Trevor Hall and Vicki Kennedy.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2010.
263 $a1008
300 $ap. cm.
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".
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.