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Author:

Coles, Robert.

Title:

Handing one another along : literature and social reflection / Robert Coles ; edited by Trevor Hall and Vicki Kennedy.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
English literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Literature and morals.
Literature and society.

Other Authors:

Hall, Trevor H.
Kennedy, Vicki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254) and index.

Contents:

Heading 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".

ISBN:

1400062039
9781400062034

LCCN:

2009047337

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)