The Empathy Exams
Essays
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: 226 pages ; 21 cm
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.
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 -- A conversation with Leslie Jamison.
ISBN:
9781555976712
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LITERATURE Essays Jam | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Essays Jam | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Essays Jam | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).