The empathy exams : essays / Leslie Jamison.

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  • Author(s): Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
  • Language:
    English
  • Publication Information:
    Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]
  • Publication Date:
    2014
  • Physical Description:
    226 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publication Type:
    Book
  • Document Type:
    Bibliographies; Essays
  • Subject Terms:
    Empathy; Pain
  • Availability: 2 Holdings
  • Additional Information
    • Abstract:
      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.
    • Content Notes:
      Empathy exams -- Devil's bait -- La frontera -- Morphology of the hit -- Pain tours (I): La plata perdida ; Sublime, revised ; Indigenous to the hood -- 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 -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito -- A conversation with Leslie Jamison.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).
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    • ISBN:
      9781555976712
      1555976719
    • Accession Number:
      2013946927
    • Accession Number:
      846545823
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.562047