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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Let us now praise famous men at 75
    sub title: anniversary essays
  name:
    name part: Lofaro, Michael A.
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: tnu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 414 pages ; 24 cm.
  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 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."
  table of contents: "This was first one trip, not like any other": an Introduction / Michael A. Lofaro -- History of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Michael A. Lofaro -- "Consider the Ancient Generations": Sharecropping's Strange Compulsion / David Moltke-Hansen -- 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 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 -- 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 Numbers: an Analysis of the Evlution 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 -- "True Fact About Him": the Conflict of Art and Nature in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Jeffrey Folks -- Cinematic Eye of James Agee in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Jeffrey Couchman -- "James with the Ironically Titles '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.
  note: edited by Michael A. Lofaro.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Agee, James
      name part: 1909-1955
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Agee, James
      name part: 1909-1955
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Evans, Walker
      name part: 1903-1975
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
  classification: PS3501.G35 Z765 2017
  classification: 818/.5209
  identifier: 9781621902614
  identifier: 1621902617
  identifier: 2016032577
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161123
    record change date: 20170926140910.0
    record identifier: in00003812854