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The Making of James Agee
Author | : Hugh Davis |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781572336070 |
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"In The Making of James Agee, Hugh Davis takes a comprehensive look at Agee's career, showing the interrelatedness of his concerns as a writer. A full view of Agee's oeuvre, Davis argues, illuminates its deeply political nature and reveals a debt to various sources, particularly European surrealism, that have been little noted by previous Agee scholars." "Davis challenges the view of Agee that has persisted since his death - that he is best understood primarily as a romantic individualist at odds with convention and the literary mainstream - and argues that this myth was largely constructed by friends and associates who were so immersed in the tenets of modernism that they distorted Agee's work (and aesthetic intent) in an attempt to purify it in modernist terms. In revealing a writer of far greater complexity than the myth allows, Davis explores, for example, the leftist poetry that Agee wrote in the 1930s, which was almost completely suppressed by his editors. He also throws a fresh light on Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and reevaluates A Death in the Family in light of recent scholarship that has produced an almost entirely new version of the novel, one much closer to Agee's original intentions."--BOOK JACKET.
Cotton Tenants
Author | : James Agee |
Publsiher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612192130 |
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the “most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.” The origins of Agee and Evans’s famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune’s editors shelved the story because of the unconventional style that marked Famous Men, and for years the original report was presumed lost. But fifty years after Agee’s death, a trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled “Cotton Tenants.” Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune. Published here for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans’s historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee’s dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an introduction, it is “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice.”
James Agee Let Us Now Praise Famous Men A Death in the Family Shorter Fiction LOA 159
Author | : James Agee |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 2005-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062426500 |
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Contains nonfiction work such as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men along with the Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Death In The Family and other fictional material.
Complete Film Criticism
Author | : James Agee |
Publsiher | : Collected Works of James Agee |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1621902587 |
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-From 1942 to 1948, James Agee wrote rather voluminous move reviews for Time and The Nation at a time when motion pictures captured wide swaths of the viewing public. This fifth volume in the Works of James Agee series includes Maland's historical introduction and his textual introduction as well as Agee's reviews from Time, The Nation, other published film criticism, and unpublished articles. Agee's Time reviews have never been published in their entirety, and early reviews from Agee's time at Exeter Academy are also included---
James Agee in Context
Author | : Michael A. Lofaro |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2023-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781621907428 |
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"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"--
James Agee
Author | : Victor A. Kramer |
Publsiher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : UOM:39015001791758 |
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James Agee Promise and Fulfillment
Author | : Kenneth Seib |
Publsiher | : [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105003789711 |
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New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
Author | : C. Blinder |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2010-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230111868 |
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Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose.