The Collected Short Prose of James Agee

The Collected Short Prose of James Agee PDF Author: James Agee
Publisher: Calder & Boyars
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Collected Short Prose of James Agee

The Collected Short Prose of James Agee PDF Author: James Agee
Publisher: Calder & Boyars
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Collected Short Prose of James Agee : Edited ... by Robert Fitzgerald

The Collected Short Prose of James Agee : Edited ... by Robert Fitzgerald PDF Author: J. Agee
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Collected Poems of James Agee

The Collected Poems of James Agee PDF Author: James Agee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780345220233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Collected Poems of James Agee

Collected Poems of James Agee PDF Author: James Agee
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ISBN: 9780714509068
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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James Agee

James Agee PDF Author: Victor A. Kramer
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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James Agee in Context

James Agee in Context PDF Author: Michael A. Lofaro
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907422
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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"This collection of new essays exploring the life and cultural significance of James Agee grew largely from the scholarship of The Works of James Agee series under the editorial guidance of Michael A. Lofaro. The present volume's eleven essays concern Agee's relation to authors as diverse as Wright Morris, John Dos Passos, William T. Vollmann, Stephen Crane, and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, it sheds fresh light on Agee's career as an artist, critic, romantic and modernist, reviewer of books, film, and photography, journalist for Fortune magazine, and, uniquely, explores the author's personal writings through the lens of his father's life"--

The Making of James Agee

The Making of James Agee PDF Author: Hugh Davis
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572336072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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"In The Making of James Agee, Hugh Davis takes a comprehensive look at Agee's career, showing the interrelatedness of his concerns as a writer. A full view of Agee's oeuvre, Davis argues, illuminates its deeply political nature and reveals a debt to various sources, particularly European surrealism, that have been little noted by previous Agee scholars." "Davis challenges the view of Agee that has persisted since his death - that he is best understood primarily as a romantic individualist at odds with convention and the literary mainstream - and argues that this myth was largely constructed by friends and associates who were so immersed in the tenets of modernism that they distorted Agee's work (and aesthetic intent) in an attempt to purify it in modernist terms. In revealing a writer of far greater complexity than the myth allows, Davis explores, for example, the leftist poetry that Agee wrote in the 1930s, which was almost completely suppressed by his editors. He also throws a fresh light on Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and reevaluates A Death in the Family in light of recent scholarship that has produced an almost entirely new version of the novel, one much closer to Agee's original intentions."--BOOK JACKET.

James Agee

James Agee PDF Author: Erling Larsen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452910448
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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James Agee - American Writers 95 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Brooklyn Is

Brooklyn Is PDF Author: James Agee
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823250814
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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For the first time in book form—a great writer’s classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words, the essence of a place and its people. Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee’s essay is a New York classic. Resonant with the rhythms of Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe, it takes its place alongside Alfred Kazin’s A Walker in the City as a great writer’s love-song to Brooklyn and alongside E. B. White’s Here Is New York as an essential statement of the place so many call home. James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1909. One of the great prose stylists of the past century, Agee wrote in many forms—poetry, short stories, novels, essays, commentary, and criticism. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Death in the Family, and he also wrote the classic account of poor Southern farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, accompanied by Walker Evans’s documentary photographs. With John Huston, he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The African Queen, and he was an influential film and theater critic for Time and The Nation. James Agee died in 1955 of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab. In the fall of 2005, the Library of America will publish a two-volume collection of his writings. Jonathan Lethem’s novels include Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, his most recent book is The Disappointment Artist. Lethem was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives.

James Agee and the Legend of Himself

James Agee and the Legend of Himself PDF Author: Alan Spiegel
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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James Agee's literary reputation has grown enormously since his death in 1955. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, film criticism, screenplays, and investigative journalism, but these accomplishments earned him only a modest public reputation during his brief life. Ironically, Agee's greatest recognition as a writer came posthumously, when his novel A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize. In James Agee and the Legend of Himself, Alan Spiegel examines these accomplishments and treats Agee not simply as a celebrity, journalist, or "Depression" writer but as a self-interrogating literary artist who created a homemade legend from his earliest family memories, sifting his experience through an automythology composed of his mother, his father, and himself.