Research Catalog

Title

New critical essays on James Agee and Walker Evans : perspectives on Let us now praise famous men / edited by Caroline Blinder.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Blinder, Caroline, 1967-

Description

viii, 191 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Agee, James, 1909-1955
• Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
• Agee, James, 1909-1955
• Artistic collaboration > United States
• Artistic collaboration
• LITERARY CRITICISM > General
• Literary studies: from c 1900 -
• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ontological aspects of let us now praise famous men : death, irony, Faulkner / Mick Gidley -- On the porch and in the room : threshold moments and other ethnographic tropes in let us now praise famous men / John Dorst -- Walker Evan's contrapuntal design : the sequences of photographs in the first and second editions of Let us now praise famous men / Alan Trachtenberg -- The tyranny of words in the economy of abundance : modernism, language, and politics in Let us now praise famous men / Sue Currell -- Agee, Evans, and the therapeutic document : narrative neurosis in the function of art / Paul Hansom -- "Two prickes" : the colon as practice / Paula Rabinowitz -- Animating the Gudgers : on the problems of a cinematic aesthetic in Let us now praise famous men / Caroline Blinder -- Epilogue. Agee and Evans : "On the porch: 4" / William Stott.

ISBN

• 9780230102927
• 0230102921

LCCN

^^2010001852

OCLC

• 456171861
• SCSB-11211033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library