02722cam a2200361 i 4500 538006789 TxAuBib 20211229120000.0 210301s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020057288 9780593316207 HRD 28.00 0593316207 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Cohen, Joshua, 1980- How to live. What to do. How to live. What to do [BOOK] : in search of ourselves in life and literature / Josh Cohen. First United States edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2021. xxi, 358 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Ebury Press, London, in 2021." -Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358). Childhood part 1 : play -- Childhood part 2 : schooling -- Adolescence part 1 : rebellion -- Adolescence part 2 : first love -- Adulthood part 1 : ambition -- Adulthood part 2 : marriage -- Adulthood part 3 : middle age -- Old age and dying. Josh Cohen invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literature--chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age. He explores a new way for us to understand ourselves. He helps us see what Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Harper Lee’s Scout Finch can teach us about childhood. He delineates the mysteries of education as depicted in Jane Eyre and as seen through the eyes of Sandy Stranger in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He discusses the need for adolescent rebellion as embodied in John Grimes in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. He makes clear what Goethe’s Young Werther and Sally Rooney’s Frances have—and don’t have—in common as they experience first love; how Middlemarch’s Dorothea Brooke deals with the vicissitudes of marriage. Vis-a-vis old age and death, Cohen considers what wisdom we may glean from John Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and from Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard. Provided by publisher. 20211229. Psychoanalysis and literature. Fiction History and criticism. Fiction Psychological aspects. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Conduct of life in literature. Characters and characteristics in literature.