| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [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: 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, and a potato chip truck -- Boundaries, borders, 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". |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature and morals.
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Literature and society.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Trevor H.
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Kennedy, Vicki.
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| ISBN |
9781400062034 alkaline paper |
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1400062039 alkaline paper |
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