The empathy exams : essays
Jamison, Leslie (1983 -)
The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison. - Minneapolis, MN : Graywold Press , 2014 - 226 p. ; 21 cm
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize 2011
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).
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 -- A conversation with Leslie Jamison.
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.
English.
9781555976712
Empathy
Pain
PS3610.A485 / E47 2014
814.6 JAM
The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison. - Minneapolis, MN : Graywold Press , 2014 - 226 p. ; 21 cm
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize 2011
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).
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 -- A conversation with Leslie Jamison.
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.
English.
9781555976712
Empathy
Pain
PS3610.A485 / E47 2014
814.6 JAM
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