Format:
XVIII, 318 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
1572336072
,
9781572336070
Content:
"Death of a poet": the Agee myth and the Agee canon -- "The love of Jesus and the mind of Marx": Agee's proletarian poetry of the 1930s -- "It is funny if I am a surrealist": Agee and the avant-garde -- "An art and a way of seeing": Walker Evans, Agee, and anti-graphic photography -- "Syncopations of chance": let us now praise famous men as surrealist ethnography -- "By any virile standard": a death in the family and popular culture
Content:
"Death of a poet": the Agee myth and the Agee canon -- "The love of Jesus and the mind of Marx": Agee's proletarian poetry of the 1930s -- "It is funny if I am a surrealist": Agee and the avant-garde -- "An art and a way of seeing": Walker Evans, Agee, and anti-graphic photography -- "Syncopations of chance": let us now praise famous men as surrealist ethnography -- "By any virile standard": a death in the family and popular culture
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
"Death of a poet": the Agee myth and the Agee canon -- "The love of Jesus and the mind of Marx": Agee's proletarian poetry of the 1930s -- "It is funny if I am a surrealist": Agee and the avant-garde -- "An art and a way of seeing": Walker Evans, Agee, and anti-graphic photography -- "Syncopations of chance": let us now praise famous men as surrealist ethnography -- "By any virile standard": a death in the family and popular culture.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Agee, James 1909-1955
