Let Us Now Praise Famous Men At 75
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781621902614
Subjects: Agee, james, 1909-1955; Evans, walker, 1903-1975
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.""--