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The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.
- Title
- The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.
- Author
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2014]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3610.A485 E47 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 226 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essay
- essays.
- Essays
- Essays.
- Essais.
- NonFiction.
- Collection.
- Essay.
- Note
- "2011 winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize"--Text.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Awards (note)
- Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, 2011.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781555976712
- 1555976719
- LCCN
- 2013946927
- 40023480765
- OCLC
- 846545823
- SCSB-10633565
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library