Research Catalog

Title

Robert Coles / Susan Hilligoss.

Author

Hilligoss, Susan, 1948-

Publication

New York : Twayne Publishers, 1997.

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Description

xvi, 205 pages : portrait; 23 cm.

Summary

• Susan Hilligoss presents a dynamic appraisal of Coles's multifaceted contributions to American letters. Evaluating thirty-eight of the writer's books, Hilligoss concentrates on Coles's achievements in psychoanalysis, socio-psychological studies of children and adults, photography and drawings, literature, and spirituality.
• A gracefully drawn overview introduces readers to the principal people and events influencing Coles and identifies themes in his books, of which the quest is chief among them.
• Central to Coles's intellectual works, Hilligoss argues, is a "tension among three aspects of the searching mind," elements she terms "the scientist, the artist, and the pilgrim." The scientist, Hilligoss posits, seeks precision and neat truths; the artist, visual representation of existential issues; and the pilgrim, the idealistic and spiritual.
• Also of appeal is the study's integration of Coles's interest in the visual arts - a subject usually treated separately - with his psychiatric and literary concerns. A spirited and thought-provoking analysis of a complex body of work, Robert Coles will be welcomed by students and scholars in a range of disciplines. Supplementing the textual narrative are a preface, acknowledgments, chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, and index.

Series Statement

Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 681

Uniform Title

Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 681.

Subjects

• Poor > United States > Historiography
• African Americans in literature
• African Americans > Historiography
• Psychoanalysis
• Coles, Robert > Criticism and interpretation
• Poor in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-199) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. "A Knowing and Searching Human Being" -- Ch. 2. "Every Limit Is a Beginning": Psychoanalytic Roots -- Ch. 3. "The 'Ground-Being' of Everyday Life": Children of Crisis -- Ch. 4. Children across Cultures -- Ch. 5. Adults in the Margin -- Ch. 6. "No Ideas but in Things": Writing about Photography and Children's Drawings -- Ch. 7. "A More Intricate, a More Subtle Kind of, Psychology": Writing about Literature -- Ch. 8. The Pastoral and the Prophetic: Writing about Spiritual Experience.

ISBN

0805740147 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96054699

OCLC

• 36225890
• ocm36225890

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries