James Agee in Context : New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Writer's View of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Wright Morris: Three "Ways of Seeing" | David Madden -- 2. The Case Against Language: Agee, Dos Passos, and Modernist Amalgamation | Michael Jacobs -- 3. James Agee's Legacy of Cultural Repudiation | Jeffrey Folks -- 4. Confessions of Inadequacy: The Inescapable Influence of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men on William T. Vollmann's Poor People | Andrew Crooke -- 5. "In Every Detail It Has Edge": James Agee Reviews the South (1927-1948) | Michael A. Lofaro -- 6. Stephen Crane through the Admiring Lens of James Agee | Jeffrey Couchman -- 7. "This Lyrical Image": James Agee on the Photography and Film of Helen Levitt | Caroline Blinder -- 8. Cock and Bull Stories: Luce's Fortune Magazine Features Hemingway and Agee on the Business of Bloodsport | Michael A. Lofaro -- 9. You Cruise, You Lose: A Panoramic View of Agee's "Havana Cruise" | Paul Ashdown -- 10. A Well-Known Postman: James Agee's Father Before A Death in the Family | Paul F. Brown -- 11. "Tidmore and the Negro": An Unpublished Chapter from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | Hugh Davis -- Appendix 1. Three New Poems: James Agee's "The Darkened Cage," "[A deer went down to water]," and "Eureka" | Jesse Graves -- Appendix 2. A New Story: On the Brooklyn Waterfront-James Agee's "Freighter's Sailing Day" | Michael A. Lofaro -- Contributors -- Index.

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