Publication

2017 - University of Tennessee Press

Language

English

Word Count

103,500 words, Guess

Page Count

414 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781621902614
  • ISBN-101621902617
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016032577
  • OCLC Control Number964698242
  • Better World Books9781621902614
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3501.G35Z765 2017
  • LCCPS3501.G35 Z765 2017

Description

"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.""--

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