All over Alabama: on the Road to Hobe's Hill / Andrew Crooke. History of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Michael A. Lofaro -- "Consider the Ancient Generations": Sharecropping's Strange Compulsion / David Moltke-Hansen -- Southerner in New York: James Agee and Literary Manhattan in the 1930s / Sarah E. Gardner -- Evans's Portrait in Words: a Descriptive History of "James Agee in 1936" / Anne Bertrand -- "As if Admonished from Another World": Wordsworth's Prelude, Schopenhauer, and Let Us Praise Famous Men / Hugh Davis -- Agee, Dostoevsky, and the Anatomy of Suffering / Brent Walter Cline -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Is the Moby-Dick of Nonfiction / David Madden -- Parallel Poetics: Ways of Seeing in James Agee and Frederico Garcia Lorca / Jesse Graves -- Fraternal Relationship: James Agee and John Berger on Representing the Rural Poor / Andrew Crooke -- "In the Service of an Anger": Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the American Civil Rights Movement / James A. Crank -- Ruses and Ruminations: the Architecture of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Caroline Blinder -- Famous Men by Numbers: an Analysis of the Evlution of James Agee's "I" from Cotton Tenants to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Michael A. Lofaro -- "Curious, Obscene, Terrifying, and Unfathomably Mysterious": Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Cultural Freakery / Erik Kline -- "True Fact About Him": the Conflict of Art and Nature in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Jeffrey Folks -- Cinematic Eye of James Agee in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Jeffrey Couchman -- "James with the Ironically Titles 'LUNPFM'" / Paul Ashdown -- From Cotton Pickin' to Acid Droppin': James Agee and the New Journalism / Michael Jacobs -- All over Alabama: on the Road to Hobe's Hill / Andrew Crooke.
Summary:
"This collection of essays illuminates a multitude of aspects of James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Among the seventeen essays are the following: David Moltke-Hansen, "Consider the Ancient Generations: Share-Cropping's Strange Compulsion"; Sara Gardner, "A Southerner in New York: James Agee and Literary Manhattan in the 1930s"; David Madden, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Is the Moby-Dick of Nonfiction"; Caroline Blinder, "Ruses and Ruminations: The Architecture of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"; and Jeffrey Couchman, "The Cinematic Eye of James Agee in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.""-- Provided by publisher.
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