| Contents |
"This was first one trip, not like any other" : an Introduction / Michael A. Lofaro -- The history of Let us now praise famous men / Michael A. Lofaro -- "Consider the ancient generations" : sharecropping's strange compulsion / David Moltke-Hansen -- A 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 now 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 -- A 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 the numbers : an analysis of the evolution 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 -- The "true fact about him": the conflict of art and nature in James Agee's Let us now praise famous men / Jeffrey Folks -- The cinematic eye of James Agee in Let us now praise famous men / Jeffrey Couchman -- "James with the ironically titled '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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
