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"One early reviewer of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men described it as 'a book that refuses to call itself a book,' while another in similar spirit compared it to the unclassifiable textual monster that is Melville's Moby-Dick. Blinder's collection of consistently lively and illuminating essays does full justice to the haunting complexity of Agee and Evans's classic volume, issuing an irresistible invitation to revisit this unique mix of hot prose and cool photography." - Peter Nicholls, Professor of English, New York University
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men may be understood as the most interstial of works: awkwardly poised, as it is, between photography and text; high art and journalism; lament and rebuke; religion and sociology; language and its failure; porch and cotton field . . . New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans gathers together the very considerable insights of cultural historians, literary and visual scholars, film experts, psychoanalytically persuaded critics and ethnographic readers. As such, read whole and with an eye to its own generative and apt interstices, the collection constitutes the best available guide to Evans and Agee's ongoing arguments." - Richard Godden, Professor of English, University of California-Irvine
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CAROLINE BLINDER is Lecturer in English and American Literature at Goldsmiths College at the University of London, UK.
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Book Title: New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Editors: Caroline Blinder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111868
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10292-7Published: 10 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28747-5Published: 10 September 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11186-8Published: 30 August 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 191
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary History