{"product_id":"9781572338531","title":"Agee at 100: Centennial Essays on the Works of James Agee","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawn mainly from the centennial anniversary symposium on James Agee held at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2009, the essays of \u003ci\u003eAgee at 100\u003c\/i\u003e are as diverse in topic and purpose as is Agee’s work itself. Often devalued during his life by those who thought his breadth a hindrance to greatness, Agee’s achievements as a poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, critic, documentarian, and screenwriter are now more fully recognized. With its use of previously unknown and recently recovered materials as well as established works, this groundbreaking new collection is a timely contribution to the resurgence of interest in Agee’s significance.\u003cbr\u003e     The essays in this collection range from the scholarly to the personal, and all offer insight into Agee’s writing, his cultural influence, and ultimately Agee himself. Dwight Garner opens with his reflective essay on “Why Agee Matters.” Several essays present almost entirely new material on Agee. Paul Ashdown writes on Agee’s book reviews, which, unlike Agee’s film criticism, have received scant attention. With evidence from two largely unstudied manuscripts, Jeffrey Couchman sets the record straight on Agee’s contribution to the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eThe African Queen\u003c\/i\u003e and delves as well into his television “miniseries” screenplay Mr. Lincoln. John Wranovics treats Agee’s lesser-known films—the documentaries \u003ci\u003eIn the Street\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet One\u003c\/i\u003e and the Filipino epic \u003ci\u003eGenghis Khan\u003c\/i\u003e.  Jeffrey J. Folks wrestles with Agee’s “culture of repudiation” while James A. Crank investigates his perplexing treatment of race in his prose. Jesse Graves and Andrew Crooke provide new analyses of \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and Michael A. Lofaro and Philip Stogdon both discuss Lofaro’s recently restored text of \u003ci\u003eA Death in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e. David Madden closes the collection with his short story “Seeing Agee in Lincoln,” an imagined letter from Agee to his longtime confidante Father Flye.\u003cbr\u003e     The contributors to\u003ci\u003e Agee at 100\u003c\/i\u003e utilize materials new and old to reveal the true importance of Agee's range of cultural sensibility and literary ability. Film scholars will also find this collection particularly engrossing, as will anyone fascinated by the work of the author rightly deemed the “sovereign prince of the English language.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael A. Lofaro is Lindsay Young Professor of American Literature and American and Cultural Studies at the University of Tennessee. Most recently, he restored James Agee’s \u003ci\u003eA Death in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e and is the general editor of the projected eleven-volume \u003ci\u003eThe Works of James Agee.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055672115440,"sku":"9781572338531","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781572338531_p0.jpg?v=1763779783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781572338531","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}