Agee at 100 : centennial essays on the works of James Agee / edited by Michael A. Lofaro.
| Other author | Lofaro, Michael A., 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2012. |
| Description | xxii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Why Agee matters / Dwight Garner -- Agee on books / Paul Ashdown -- James Agee and the culture of repudiation / Jeffrey J. Folks -- Racial violence, receding bodies: James Agee's anatomy of guilt / James A. Crank -- A continuous center: centripetal and centrifugal tendencies in 'Let us now praise famous men' / Andrew Crooke -- A blind work of nature: the ethics of representing beauty in 'Let us now praise famous men' / Jesse Graves -- James Agee's 'A death in the family': personal identity and conflict in an emerging Appalachia / Michael A. Lofaro -- Maximum simple: the restored text of 'A death in the family' / Philip Stogdon -- Writing 'The African queen': variations on a classic film / Jeffrey Couchman -- The makers of 'In the street' and 'The quiet one' / John Wranovics -- James Agee's experimentally traditional 'Mr. Lincoln' / Jeffrey Couchman -- Agee and the Filipino epic 'Genghis Khan': a personal journey / John Wranovics -- Seeing Agee in Lincoln: a short story / David Madden. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011041680 |
| ISBN | 9781572338531 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1572338539 (hardcover) |