New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans

Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-28747-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 191 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blinder, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ontological Aspects of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Death, Irony, Faulkner; M.Gidley On the Porch and in the Room: Threshold Moments and Other Ethnographic Tropes in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; J.Dorst Walker Evans's Fictions of the South; A.Trachtenberg The Tyranny of Words in the Economy of Abundance: Modernism, Language, and Politics in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; S.Currell  Agee, Evans, and the Therapeutic Document: Narrative Neurosis in the Function of Art; P.Hansom Two Prickes: The Colon as Practice; P.Rabinowitz Animating the Gudgers: On the Problems of a Cinematic Aesthetic in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; C.Blinder

Über Autor(innen)

CAROLINE BLINDER is Lecturer in English and American Literature at Goldsmiths College at the University of London, UK.