Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Handing one another along

Oclc number

467925513

Responsibility statement

Robert Coles ; edited by Trevor Hall and Vicki Kennedy

Sub title

literature and social reflection

Table Of 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: encounters through the eyes of another. Featured: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor -- Bringing it home: intellectuals and the religious search: finding meaning in the life given to us. Featured: Dorothy Day, Ignazio Silone, Elie Wiesel, John Cheever, Walker Percy, Zora Neale Hurston, 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: history of a course -- A reading list for life: the syllabus from "A literature of social reflection"

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