02370cam a2200325 4500 1163768091 TxAuBib 20110223120000.0 091117s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009047337 9781400062034 alk. paper 1400062039 alk. paper (OCoLC)467925513 DLC DLC YDXCP BKL TxAuBib Coles, Robert. Handing one another along : literature and social reflection / Robert Coles ; edited by Trevor Hall and Vicki Kennedy. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2010. xxiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254) and index. 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". 20110223. American literature History and criticism Theory, etc. English literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature and morals. Literature and society. Hall, Trevor H. Kennedy, Vicki. TXKIP