Let Us Now Praise Famous Men at 75
Author | : Michael A. Lofaro |
Publisher | : Univ Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 1621902617 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781621902614 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "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.""--