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New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Ontological Aspects of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Death, Irony, Faulkner
- 2 On the Porch and in the Room: Threshold Moments and Other Ethnographic Tropes in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 3 Walker Evans’s Contrapuntal Design: The Sequences of Photographs in the First and Second Editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 4 The Tyranny of Words in the Economy of Abundance: Modernism, Language, and Politics in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 5 Agee, Evans, and the Therapeutic Document: Narrative Neurosis in the Function of Art
- 6 “Two Prickes”: The Colon as Practice
- 7 Animating the Gudgers: On the Problems of a Cinematic Aesthetic in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Epilogue Agee and Evans: “On The Porch: 4”
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index