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James Agee in Context - New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays (Hardcover)
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James Agee in Context - New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays (Hardcover)
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It’s difficult to overestimate the impact of the many new works
by James Agee uncovered and published in the last twenty years.
These previously unknown primary works have, in turn, encouraged a
parallel explosion of critical evaluation and reevaluation by
scholars, to which James Agee in Context is the latest
contribution. This superb collection from well-known James Agee
scholars features myriad approaches and contexts for understanding
the author’s fiction, poetry, journalism, and screenwriting. The
essays bring the reader from the streets of James Agee’s New York
to travel with the author from Alabama to Hollywood to Havana.
Contributors explore overlapping and sometimes unique subjects,
themes, and accomplishments (or lack thereof) in Agee’s uncovered
works and highlight the diversity of interest that Agee’s
complete body of work inspires. The insightful scholarship on
influence examines connections between Agee and Wright Morris,
Helen Levitt, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and Stephen Crane.
Such juxtapositions serve to illustrate how Agee drew on literary
influences as a young man, how he used his work as a journalist to
craft fiction as he was about to turn thirty, and his influence
upon others. The volume concludes with three poems and a short
story by Agee, all previously unknown. It seems astonishing that so
much remains to be discovered about this protean author, his
materials, and his circle. Yet, the recovery and analysis of
neglected texts and information mined from newspapers and magazines
proves the extent to which Agee kept his mind and his work, as he
himself put it, “patiently concentrated upon the essential
quietudes of the human soul.”
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Imprint: |
University of Tennessee Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Michael A. Lofaro
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-62190-742-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-62190-742-2 |
Barcode: |
9781621907428 |
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