New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
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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

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Ontological Aspects of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Death, Irony, Faulkner
  10. 2 On the Porch and in the Room: Threshold Moments and Other Ethnographic Tropes in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
  11. 3 Walker Evans’s Contrapuntal Design: The Sequences of Photographs in the First and Second Editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
  12. 4 The Tyranny of Words in the Economy of Abundance: Modernism, Language, and Politics in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
  13. 5 Agee, Evans, and the Therapeutic Document: Narrative Neurosis in the Function of Art
  14. 6 “Two Prickes”: The Colon as Practice
  15. 7 Animating the Gudgers: On the Problems of a Cinematic Aesthetic in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
  16. Epilogue Agee and Evans: “On The Porch: 4”
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Contributors
  19. Index