Robert Coles

by Hilligoss, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780805740141
• ISBN10: 0805740147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Twayne Pub

Summary

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

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-- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works

-- A brief biography of the author

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-- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index

-- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Chronology	xiii
Chapter One "A Knowing and Searching Human Being"	1	(19)
Chapter Two "Every Limit Is a Beginning": Psychoanalytic Roots	20	(16)
Chapter Three "The 'Ground-Being' of Everyday Life": Children of Crisis	36	(38)
Chapter Four Children across Cultures	74	(21)
Chapter Five Adults in the Margin	95	(15)
Chapter Six "No Ideas but in Things": Writing about Photography and Children's Drawings	110	(14)
Chapter Seven "A More Intricate, a More Subtle Kind of, Psychology": Writing about Literature	124	(24)
Chapter Eight The Pastoral and the Prophetic: Writing about Spiritual Experience	148	(22)
Conclusion	170	(5)
Notes and References	175	(8)
Selected Bibliography	183	(18)
Index	201