Most widely noted for his acclaimed Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family,
Tennessee native James Agee was also a journalist, film critic,
poet, and screenwriter. More than fifty years after Agee's untimely
death, his canon of work continues to grow in popularity, and his
ability to capture the human condition in all its forms remains
unparalleled. Agee Agonistes is a compilation of seventeen essays
from the James Agee Celebration hosted by the University of
Tennessee in April 2005. The collection includes some of the best
interpretations of Agee's work and explores the influences on his
art, delineates the connections and syntheses he makes within his
texts, and examines his involvement in music, ethics, surrealism,
local and national history, cinema, television, poetry, literature,
sociology, and journalism. The volume features never-before-seen
pictures of Agee, previously unknown correspondence, and a
remembrance by his oldest daughter, Deedee. The volume also
includes the most extensive bibliography of secondary sources on
Agee assembled to date. The essays are divided into four parts:
Agee's Influences and Syntheses-Contributors: Paul Sprecher,
William Bruce Wheeler, Jack Neely, Jeffrey J. Folks, Hugh Davis,
Paul Ashdown Agee's Films-Contributors: Daniel Feller, Jeffrey
Couchman, Mary E. Papke, John Wranovics Agee's
Literature-Contributors: Fred Chappell, Angie Maxwell, John H.
Summers, James A. Crank, Michael A. Lofaro Agee's
Correspondence-Contributor: Brian Gempp. In addition, the volume
includes an introductory essay entitled "Mapping Agee's Myriad
Mind" by noted author David Madden. Agee Agonistes will be of
interest to all those who study twentieth-century America and will
introduce a new generation of readers to James Agee. Michael Lofaro
is professor of American literature and American and Cultural
Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has authored
and edited numerous volumes and is coeditor, with Hugh Davis, of
James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men and Other New Manuscripts. He is also the general editor for
the ten-volume series, The Works of James Agee, and the editor of
its forthcoming first volume, A Death in the Family: A Restoration
of the Author's Text.
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