James Agee in context new literary, visual, cultural, and historical essays
A writer's view of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Wright Morris : three "ways of seeing" / David Madden -- The case against language : Agee, Dos Passos, and modernist amalgamation / Michael Jacobs -- James Agee's legacy of cultural repudiation / Jeffrey Folks -- Confessions of ina...
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Knoxville
The University of Tennessee Press
2022
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A writer's view of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Wright Morris : three "ways of seeing" / David Madden -- The case against language : Agee, Dos Passos, and modernist amalgamation / Michael Jacobs -- James Agee's legacy of cultural repudiation / Jeffrey Folks -- Confessions of inadequacy : the inescapable influence of Let us now praise famous men on William T. Vollmann's Poor people / Andrew Crooke -- "In every detail it has edge" : James Agee reviews the South (1927-1948) / Michael A. Lofaro -- Stephen Crane through the admiring lens of James Agee / Jeffrey Couchman -- "This lyrical image" : James Agee on the photography and film of Helen Levitt / Caroline Blinder -- Cock and bull stories : Luce's Fortune magazine features Hemingway and Agee on the business of bloodsport / Michael A. Lofaro -- You cruise, you lose : a panoramic view of Agee's "Havana cruise" / Paul Ashdown -- A well-known postman : James Agee's father before A death in the family / Paul F. Brown -- "Tidmore and the Negro" : an unpublished chapter from Let us now praise famous men / Hugh Davis "This collection of new essays exploring the life and cultural significance of James Agee grew largely from the scholarship of The Works of James Agee series under the editorial guidance of Michael A. Lofaro. The present volume's eleven essays concern Agee's relation to authors as diverse as Wright Morris, John Dos Passos, William T. Vollmann, Stephen Crane, and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, it sheds fresh light on Agee's career as an artist, critic, romantic and modernist, reviewer of books, film, and photography, journalist for Fortune magazine, and, uniquely, explores the author's personal writings through the lens of his father's life"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xvii, 317 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781621907428 978-1-62190-742-8 |