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  1. New critical essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
    perspectives on Let us now praise famous men
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    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... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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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. 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 128299252X; 9780230111868; 9781282992528
    RVK Categories: HU 3009
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Artistic collaboration
    Other subjects: Evans, Walker (1903-1975); Agee, James (1909-1955): Let us now praise famous men; Agee, James (1909-1955)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (viii, 191 p), ill, 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Ontological Aspects of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Death, Irony, Faulkner; 2 On the Porch and in the Room: Threshold Moments and Other Ethnographic Tropes in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; 3 Walker Evans's Contrapuntal Design: The Sequences of Photographs in the First and Second Editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; 4 The Tyranny of Words in the Economy of Abundance: Modernism, Language, and Politics in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    5 Agee, Evans, and the Therapeutic Document: Narrative Neurosis in the Function of Art6 "Two Prickes": The Colon as Practice; 7 Animating the Gudgers: On the Problems of a Cinematic Aesthetic in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Epilogue: Agee and Evans: "On The Porch: 4"; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index