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The Empathy Exams: Essays

By Leslie , Jamison

Book information

Publisher
Graywolf Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781555976712, 9781555970888, 1555976719
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
689 kB (705202 bytes)
Pages
226 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Empathy;Pain;Collection;NonFiction;Essay;Essays

Description

A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others. The empathy exams -- Devil's bait -- La frontera -- Morphology of the hit -- Pain tours (I): La plata perdida Sublime, revised Indigenous to the hood -- The immortal horizon -- In defense of saccharin(e) -- Fog count -- Pain tours (II): Ex-votos Servicio supercompleto The broken heart of James Agee -- Lost boys -- Grand unified theory of female pain -- Works consulted -- Acknowledgements -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito.

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