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Science, Values, and the Novel
Science, Values, & the Novel: an Exercise in Empathy Alan C. Hartford, MD, PhD, FACR Associate Professor of Medicine (Radiation Oncology) Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 2nd Annual Symposium, Arts & Humanities in Medicine 29 January 2021 The Doctor, 1887 Sir Luke Fildes, Tate Gallery, London • “One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.” From: Francis W. Peabody, “The Care of the Patient.” JAMA 1927; 88: 877-882. Francis Weld Peabody, MD 1881-1927 Empathy • Empathy: – “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” • Cognitive (from: Oxford Languages) • Affective • Somatic • Theory of mind: – “The capacity to identify and understand others’ subjective states is one of the most stunning products of human evolution.” (from: Kidd and Castano, Science 2013) – Definitions are not full agreed upon, but this distinction is: • “Affective” and “Cognitive” empathy are independent from one another. Can one teach empathy? Reading novels? • Literature as a “way of thinking” – “Literature’s problem is that its irreducibility … makes it look unscientific, and by extension, soft.” – For example: “‘To be or not to be’ cannot be reduced to ‘I’m having thoughts of self-harm.’” – “At one and the same time medicine is caught up with the demand for rigor in its pursuit of and assessment of evidence, and with a recognition that there are other ways of doing things … which are important.” (from: Skelton, Thomas, and Macleod, “Teaching literature -
Book Group to Go Book Group Kit Collection Glendale Public Library
Book Group To Go Book Group Kit Collection Glendale Public Library Titles in the Collection — Spring 2016 Book Group Kits can be checked out for 8 weeks and cannot be placed on hold or renewed. To reserve a kit, please contact: [email protected] or call 818.548.2041 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, the book chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy. Poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney reflect Junior’s art. 2007 National Book Award winner. Fiction. Young Adult. 229 pages The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta A controversy on the soccer field pushes Ruth Ramsey, the human sexuality teacher at the local high school, and Tim Mason, a member of an evangelical Christian church that doesn't approve of Ruth's style of teaching, to actually talk to each other. Adversaries in a small-town culture war, they are forced to take each other at something other than face value. Fiction. 358 pages The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. -
Form As Theme in Richard Powers' the Overstory
“The tree is saying things in words be- fore words”: form as theme in Richard Powers’ The Overstory di Pia Masiero* Abstract: Richard Powers’ 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Overstory, is a very ambi- tious work which purports to raise the awareness on the life of trees proposing an eco- centered way of being revolving around the enlargement of the concepts of agency and crea- tivity. This article focuses on the formal ways in which Powers has strived to give voice to the-other-than human. Specifically, it presents the structuring of the plot according to the ex- tended metaphor of the tree and its rhetorical functioning according to the parabolic form. These macro principles are translated into two micro choices – the positing of a nonhuman narrator and the present as the dominant tense – that sustain and mirror the novel’s thematic concerns. The close readings of the existential trajectories of two female characters open up to a reflection on Powers’ gender politics. Richard Powers’ 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Overstory, contains the ingredients that according to the foundational book by Lawrence Buell, The Envi- ronmental Imagination, “comprise an environmentally oriented work” (7), namely, 1. The nonhuman environment is present not merely as a framing device but as a presence that begins to suggest that human history is implicated in natural history. 2. The human inter- est is not understood to be the only legitimate interest. 3. Human accountability to the envi- ronment is part of the texts’ ethical orientation.. 4. Some sense of the environment as a pro- cess rather than a constant or a given is at least implicit in the text. -
100 Best Last Lines from Novels
100 Best Last Lines from Novels 1. …you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on. –Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable 22. YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO ARt—RETURN TO LIFE –William H. Gass, (1953; trans. Samuel Beckett) Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife (1968) 2. Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you? –Ralph Ellison, 23. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your Invisible Man (1952) rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. –Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900) 3. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. –F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) 24. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is. –Russell Banks, Continental Drift (1985) 4. …I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the 25. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with children, only found another orphan. –Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could 26. The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. -
What Happens When the Bird and the Fish Fall in Love?
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy 2006-2007 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BIRD AND THE FISH FALL IN LOVE? A thematic exploration of identity and racial issues in Richard Powers’ The Time of Our Singing Supervisor: Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the Prof. Dr. Kristiaan Versluys requirements for the degree of ‘Licentiaat in de Taal - en Letterkunde: Germaanse Talen’ by Tessa De Smet ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This dissertation could not have been written without the help and support of a few people. I am particularly grateful to my supervisor, Professor Dr. Kristiaan Versluys, for his encouraging words, helpful comments and constructive feedback. Thanks also go to Romanie for introducing me to the work of Richard Powers, to Froya, Jordi and my parents for their support and unconditional trust (thanks Dad for proofreading!) and to all my friends in Bruges, Ghent and elsewhere for making spare time as carefree and enjoyable as possible! Thank you all! Tessa Ghent, May 2007 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PART 1 : Theoretical Framework 4 CHAPTER 1: Race 5 What’s in a Name: The Many Meanings of Race 5 A Historical Framework: Past and Present Race Theories 8 A Future Beyond Race? America’s Hopeful Dream 12 CHAPTER 2: Identity (& Race) 16 2.1 Who is it that can tell me who I am? Identity m/Matters 16 2.2 The Persistent Effects of Colour Labelling: Racial Identity 22 2.3 Neither Black nor White yet Both: Crossing Racial Boundaries 28 PART 2 : Literary Analysis 35 CHAPTER 3: Characterisation: A Composition in Black & White 36 3.1 Interracial Literature: A Literary Tradition 37 3.2 The Portrait of a Family: Fish or Bird? 41 3.3 Racial Identity: The Theoretical Models applied 49 CHAPTER 4: Grand Novels have Grand Ideas: Race, Culture & History 55 4.1 Culture: Who Gets to Sing What? 55 4.2 History: Uncanting the can’t 60 4.3 Race: Older Than History and Build to Outlast It 67 CONCLUSION 74 REFRENCES 76 INTRODUCTION Richard Powers, sometimes characterised as ‘the greatest author you’ve never heard of’ (in Flanders §1), was born in Illinois, in June 1957. -
OLLI Spring 2020 the Novels of Richard Powers: an Overview
Regier – Syllabus for The Novels of Richard Powers: An Overview - 1 OLLI Spring 2020 The Novels of Richard Powers: An Overview Instructor: Willis Goth Regier E-mail address: [email protected] Course Description: Authors like to hear that their latest book is their best. When saying that about a Richard Powers novel we should always add “so far.” Every new novel makes some advance upon the others, and who is to say that one step is more important than another? Yet some novels seem to be strides rather than steps, and his latest, The Overstory (2018) is such a stride. This course will survey each of Powers’ twelve novels in chronological order, from Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) to The Overstory. I will feature favorite passages in each novel, reflect their glories, and indicate what is distinctive about each. Powers’ readers will be reminded of novels they wish to reread. The course will also consider Powers’ novels as twelve parts of a whole which, properly put together, gives us a large look at Richard Powers. I will propose theses about the novels: They refuse to succumb to the predictabilities of a genre. They change themes, structures, and tones, though some themes recur and reassert their importance. The twelve take up complex issues and pose problems of individual responsibility. They have in common Powers’ resolution to make each unique and his determination in every case to “get it right.” Recommended: Richard Powers, The Overstory (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018). Regier – Syllabus for The Novels of Richard Powers: -
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION Paying Tribute to the Five Pulitzer Prize Winners from the State of New York in Recognition of Their Exemplary Journalis- Tic Accomplishments
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION paying tribute to the five Pulitzer Prize Winners from the State of New York in recognition of their exemplary journalis- tic accomplishments WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to pay tribute to those illustrious journalistic entities which have diligently and consistently, year after year, recorded the history of their communities and brought local news and news of the larger world to their readers; and WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and in full accord with its long- standing traditions, this Legislative Body is justly proud to pay trib- ute to the five Pulitzer Prize Winners from the State of New York in recognition of their exemplary journalistic accomplishments; and WHEREAS, This auspicious award is bestowed upon those who have made stellar achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States; established in 1917, by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it is administered by Columbia University in New York City, and prizes are awarded yearly in 21 categories; and WHEREAS, The recipients of a 2015 Pulitzer Prize from New York State include Adam Zyglis, THE NEW YORK TIMES Staff, Daniel Berehulak, Eric Lipton and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff; and WHEREAS, Currently employed by THE BUFFALO NEWS, Adam Zyglis is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning; he is known for using strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of meaning in a few words; and WHEREAS, An International -
The Paterno Anthology
The Paterno Anthology A book collection dedicated in honor of Suzanne Pohland Paterno in celebration of her 80th birthday February 14, 2020 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family by Bernice Kert Abigail Adams: A Life by Woody Holton Aeneid by Virgil After All, It’s Only a Game by Willie Morris Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr American Fiction, American Myth: Essays by Philip Young edited by David Morrell and Sandra Spanier The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David M. Rubenstein The Art of Dancing: Explained by Reading and Figures by Kellom Tomlinson The Art of Gratitude by Jeremy David Engels Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama The Best of Simple: Stories by Langston Hughes Beyond the Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience edited by A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith by Monica A. Coleman The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu The Book Thief by Markus Zusak By Honor Bound: Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage by Tom Norris and Mike Thornton with Dick Couch By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality by S. J. Wilkie Au Candide, ou l’Optimisme by Voltaire Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. -
TITLE AUTHOR SUBJECTS Adult Fiction Book Discussion Kits
Adult Fiction Book Discussion Kits Book Discussion Kits are designed for book clubs and other groups to read and discuss the same book. The kits include multiple copies of the book and a discussion guide. Some kits include Large Print copies (noted below in the subject area). Additional Large Print, CDbooks or DVDs may be added upon request, if available. The kit is checked out to one group member who is responsible for all the materials. Book Discussion Kits can be reserved in advance by calling the Adult Services Department, 314-994-3300 ext 2030. Kits may be picked up at any SLCL location, and should be returned inside the branch during normal business hours. To check out a kit, you’ll need a valid SLCL card. Kits are checked out for up to 8 weeks, and may not be renewed. Up to two kits may be checked out at one time to an individual. Customers will not receive a phone call or email when the kit is ready for pick up, so please note the pickup date requested. To search within this list when viewing it on a computer, press the Ctrl and F keys simultaneously, then type your search term (author, title, or subject) into the search box and press Enter. Use the arrow keys next to the search box to navigate to the matches. For a full plot summary, please click on the title, which links to the library catalog. New Book Discussion Kits are in bold red font, updated 11/19. TITLE AUTHOR SUBJECTS 1984 George Orwell science fiction/dystopias/totalitarianism Accident Chris Pavone suspense/spies/assassins/publishing/manuscripts/Large Print historical/women -
Addition to Summer Letter
May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays. -
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 10 Media Organizations in Support of Relators- Appellants Urging Reversal
Kin the Qupreme Qtuurt at QBIJIIJ STATE OF OHIO, ex rel. Case No. 2019-1433 CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., et al., Relators-Appellants, On Appeal from the Greene County V. Court of Appeals, Second Appellate Disuict BELLBROOK-SUGARCREEK LOCAL SCHOOLS, er al., Court of Appeals Case No. 201 9CA0047 Respondents-Appellees. BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND 10 MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF RELATORS- APPELLANTS URGING REVERSAL Erin E. Rhinehart (0078298) Melissa D. Bertke Christopher C. Hollon (0086480) BAKERHOSTETLER LLP FARUKI PLL Key Tower 110 North Main Street, Suite 1600 127 Public Square, Suite 2000 Dayton, OH 42402 Cleveland, OH 44114 937-227-3714 Telephone: (216) 861-7865 erhinehart@ficlaw.com Facsimile: (216) 696-0740 chollon@ficlaw.com Counsel of Record for Amici Curiae Counsel for Relatars-Appellants Katie Townsend* Cable News Network, Inc., et al. Shannon Jankowski* THE Nicholas Subashi (0033953) REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM or Tabitha Justice (0075440) THE PRESS 15"‘ SUBASHI, WILDERMUTI-I & JUSTICE 1156 St. NW, Suite 1020 Washington, D.C. 20005 50 Chestnut Street, Suite 230 Dayton, Ohio 45440 Telephone: (202) 795-9300 937-427-8800 Facsimile: (202) 795-9310 [email protected] *Of Counsel [email protected] **/ldditional amici counsel listed in Counsel Respondents-Appellees for Appendix B Bellbrook—Sugarcreek Local Schools, et al. F! U are 162019 CLERK OF COURT SUPREME COURT OF OHIO TABLE OF CONTENTS AND STATEMENT OF INTRODUCTION FACTS ............................ .. STATEMENT OF IDENTITY AND INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE. PROPOSITIONS OF I. First Proposition of Law: Absent express evidence of statutory intent, statutes which invade the common law should not be construed to abrogate longstanding common law principles. -
Dr. Sheri Fink Glen Woodbury
Ethics in Crisis: Observations from the Frontlines of COVID-19 with Dr. Sheri Fink Dr. Sheri Fink Correspondent The New York Times Dr. Sheri Fink is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013) about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She is also an executive producer of the Netflix documentary television series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak (2020). She is a correspondent at the New York Times, where her and her colleagues' stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for health reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. Her story "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, received a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Five Days at Memorial was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize , the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award, the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Book Award.