James Agee

Agee, James - āˈjē, 1909–55, American writer, b. Knoxville, Tenn., grad. Harvard, 1932. He was a writer for Fortune magazine, a movie critic for Time and The Nation, and a film scriptwriter. His best-known work is the posthumously published novel A Death in the Family (1957; Pulitzer Prize), which recounts in poetic prose the tragic impact of a man's death on his wife Read More...

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Agee: Selected Literary Documents
by James Agee, Victor A. Kramer. 306 pgs.

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This volume provides the significant materials which seem of most importance for understanding James Agee's progression from an ambitious beginner to an accomplished writer who could, as he once wrote, "turn on the valve like a water faucet and write." This selection of documents spans over twenty-five years in Agee's career and demonstrates his movement as a writer who first mastered conventional prose and then went on to develop distinctive methods of writing based on an intensely felt awareness of the need to observe and "honor" reality.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Textual Information

Introduction: the Possibilities of Writing Well

Part I Apprenticeship: Phillips Exeter Writing: Prose, Drama, Poetry, and Non-Fiction (1925-1928)

Phillips Exeter Fiction

"Catched" a Play in Three Scenes

Phillips Exeter Drama

Scene Two

Scene Three

"Any Seventh Son"

"Menalcas"

Phillips Exeter Poetry

Phillips Exeter Non-Fiction

Part II Other Early Experiments (1928-1932)

"Pygmalion"

Notes

Selections from the Harvard Advocate

Part III Reviews and Documentation (1939-1945)

Time Reviews

"James Agee by Himself"

The Complete "Work" Chapter for Famous Men

Unused Time Articles

Part IV Cultural and Autobiographical Experiments (1945-1948)

Three 1940's Sonnets

"1928 Story" (1948)

"Dream Sequence"

"Surprise"

Appendix

Note

Notes

Index
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Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
by James Agee, James Harold Flye. 248 pgs.

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James Agee

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Chronology of References In the Letters
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Agee and Actuality: Artistic Vision in His Work
by Victor A. Kramer. 176 pgs.

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These essays provide detailed analyses of both James Agee's life and writings. Especially, they illuminate aspects of his literary career as it developed through refinements and change. Paired, the twelve essays work in groups to demonstrate that Agee's accomplishments were varied, while at the core of his writing remains his concern for what he once called the "dignity of acutlaity."

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction

I the Life and Plans for Writing

A Reconciliation of Forces: the Life and the Work

Notes

Criticism of Culture as a Basic Thrust

Ii the Tenant Book

Famous Men as Image of a Way of Life

Notes

Iii Film and Society

Agee's Criticism as Insight into Culture and the Problems of Making an Honest Film

Notes

Chaplin's Screenplay as Statement About Society

Iv Honoring Memories from Life

Regional Focus in the Fiction

Notes

Religious Faith in the Morning Watch

V Making an Autobiographical Novel

Projecting a Story

Notes

The Manuscript and the Text for James Agee's a Death in the Family

Vi Synthesis Through Detail

Urban and Rural Tension in a Death in the Family

Notes

Skepticism About Art and Audience

Scholarship: Agee And, and Agee In

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Index
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The Anatomy of Memory: An Anthology ("From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" begins on p. 456)
by James H. McConkey. 509 pgs.

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Memory is astonishing and elusive--its threads intricately woven and infinitely complicated. It makes intelligible the chaos of experience; it feeds our creativity and shapes our daily judgments, our spiritual apprehensions, our desires. It is the essential element of human consciousness, the key to our personality, and the linchpin of our sense of who we are. In The Anatomy of Memory James McConkey has assembled a rich selection of writings that illuminate the nature of memory and the varied roles it plays in our lives. Ranging from the scientific to the humanistic--from "hardwiring" and the complex functions of the brain, to the value of memory in human life--The Anatomy of Memory brings us insights from some of the most revered writers and thinkers of the past and present. We read of St. Augustine's struggle in Confessions to comprehend his memory; of Jung's theory of the collective unconscious; of Lewis Thomas's understanding in The Lives of the Cell of memory at its most basic level, that of the cell. McConkey includes the poetry of Marianne Moore and William Butler Yeats; and excerpts from works as diverse as James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory, and Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk. Indeed, each of these writers has turned to memory to make sense of his or her own life, to understand the phenomenal world, and to discover the balance only memory can provide. Not least important are McConkey's own extensive introductions to every piece in the book--gems of insight formed by a lifetime of reflection on writers such as Anton Chekhov, E. B. White, Marcel Proust, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, Maya Angelou, William James, Norman Maclean, Eudora Welty, and many others. James McConkey is ideally suited to illuminate the nature of memory. His fiction as well as his non-fiction is in effect a lifelong meditation on memory, on the process by which we come to deeper levels of self-understanding through periodic looks backward at the events that have shaped us, a theme he explored most profoundly in his much-praised Court of Memory. Now, in The Anatomy of Memory, he provides a powerful assessment of the ways memory unifies disparate experiences, creates a synthesis out of chaos, and binds together a self, a family, a culture, and indeed all humanity. That assessment is abetted by the unique structure of this anthology, its six sections building on each other, each contributing to a comprehensive understanding of memory's essential role in human life.

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The Nature of Memory

From Confessions

From a Natural History of the Senses

From So Human an Animal

From the Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

My Contact with Josef Popper-Lynkeus

From Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: on the Matter of the Mind

From the Making of Memory

Descartes' Error and the Future of Human Life

The Memory of Nature

Walking

A Walk in Early May

Moments and Journeys

On Waste Lonely Places

From the Crossing Fee

The Brown Wasps

Memory and Creativity

Mathematical Creation

From the Principles of Psychology

From "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"

Anonymity: an Enquiry

The Mother of the Muses: in Praise of Memory

From Remembrance of Things Past

Memory and Imagination

Memory, Creation, and Writing

From One Writer's Beginnings

Memory, Culture, and Identity

The Hyatt, the Maori, and the Yanamamo

Stranger in the Village

From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A Death in the Family

From the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

From Hunger of Memory

Kubota

Persptives of Memory

From Speak, Memory

From This Boy's Life

Once More to the Lake

Peasant Marey

The Girls and Ghouls of Memory

From a Walker in the City

Of Practice

From the Periodic Table

Broken Vessels

From Young Men and Fire

From Images and Shadows: Part of a Life

Beyond Memory

From Maps to Anywhere

Waves

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Gusev

From Confessions

Acknowledgments

Author Index
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The Deceptive Anarchy of 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,' in The Antioch Review
by Bruce Jackson. 12 pgs.

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Close Enough to Hurt: Dale Maharidge on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, and the Importance of 'Living' Journalism, in Columbia Journalism Review
by Dale Maharidge. 4 pgs.

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They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary (Chap. 2 "Voyeurism and Class Consciousness: James Agee and Walker Evans Praise Famous Men")
by Paula Rabinowitz. 264 pgs.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION The Work of Intellectuals in the Age of Post/Modern Representation

1 Wreckage Upon Wreckage: History, Documentary, and the Ruins of Memory

PART I Pictures of Poverty

2 Voyeurism and Class Consciousness: James Agee and Walker Evans Praise Famous Men

3 Margaret Bourke-White's Red Coat; Or, Slumming in the Thirties

4 People's Culture, Popular Culture, Public Culture: Hollywood, Newsreels, And Fsa Films and Photographs

PART II Zones of Privacy

5 Writing the Wrong: the Politics and Poetics Of Women's Vietnam War Reportage

6 History in Your Own Home: Cinéma Vérité, Docudrama, and America's Families

PART III Maps of Aggression

7 Ethnographies of Women: Soft Fiction And Feminist Theory

8 National Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, And Terror in Feminist Counter-Documentaries

9 Video Vérité: Rodney King in the City Of Angels of History

EPILOGUE One More Thing

Notes

Index
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A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre ("James Agee" begins on p. 197)
by Thomas B. Connery. 410 pgs.

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..."This book promises to be a useful reference source and would be a welcome addition to public and high school libraries....The book's focus makes it unique..." Booklist

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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PREFACE

PART ONE Introduction

Discovering A Literary Form

DISCOVERING A LITERARY FORM

Editor's Note

PART TWO The Writers

Mark Twain

Primary Sources

Richard Harding Davis

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Stephen Crane

Primary Sources

Jacob A. Riis

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Abraham Cahan

PRIMARY SOURCES

Secondary Sources

Secondary Sources

Lincoln Steffens

PRIMARY SOURCES

Secondary Sources

George Ade

Secondary Sources

Hutchins Hapgood

Primary Sources

William Hard

Primary Sources

Theodore Dreiser

Primary Sources

John Reed

Primary Sources

Ring Lardner

Primary Sources

Damon Runyon

Primary Sources

Dorothy Day

Primary Sources

Ernest Hemingway

Primary Sources

James Agee

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Joseph Mitchell

Primary Sources

John Hersey

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John Steinbeck

Primary Sources

Lillian Ross

Primary Resources

Truman Capote

Secondary Sources

PRIMARY SOURCES

Tom Wolfe

Primary Sources

Gay Talase

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Hunter's S. Thompson

Secondary Sources

PRIMARY SOURCES

Michael Herr

Secondary Sources

PRIMARY SOURCE

Norman Mailer

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Joe Eszterhas

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Secondary Sources

C.D.B. Bryan

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Jane Kramer

Richard Ben Cramer

Secondary Sources

John McPehee

Primary Sources

Joan Didion

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Bob Greene

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Joe McGinniss

Primary Sources

Tracy Kidder

Primary Sources

SECONDARY SOURCES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
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Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture ("'Half My Right of Speech': James Agee" begins on p. 147)
by Bruce Robbins. 274 pgs.

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Preface

INTRODUCTION From Luftmensh to "Cultural Elite": Intellectuals in the New York Times Magazine

1 The Ambiguities Of The Professionals

2 Culture and Distance: On the Professionalizing Of Literary Criticism

3 The Insistence of the Public In Postmodern Criticism

4 Enchanted Enclaves, Family Romance

5 The East is a Career: Edward Said

6 Comparative Cosmopolitanisms

CONCLUSION Aesthetics and Social Work

Notes

Index
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The Art of Southern Fiction: A Study of Some Modern Novelists (Chap. 4 "James Agee and Flannery O'Connor: The Religious Consciousness")
by Frederick J. Hoffman. 200 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Definitions and Limits

2: The Tradition of the Modern

3: Eudora Welty and Carson Mccullers

4: James Agee and Flannery O'Connor: The Religious Consciousness

5: The Mark of Time: Society and History in Southern Fiction

6: Varieties of Fantasy

7: William Styron: The Metaphysical Hurt

8: Conclusion

Notes

Index
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Contemporaries ("Good-by to James Agee" begins on p. 185)
by Alfred Kazin. 514 pgs.

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I: The Background of Modern Literature

II: Relevance of the American Past

III: Old Boys, Mostly American

IV: Famous Since the War

V: The European Current

VI: Places

VII: Freud and His Consequences

VIII: The Puzzle of Modern Society

IX: The Critic's Task

Index
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature ("Agee, James (1909-1955)" begins on p. 5)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook ("James Agee (1909-1955)" begins on p. 9)
by Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain. 630 pgs.

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..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Introduction

James Agee (1909-1955)

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A. R. Ammons (1926- )

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John Barth (1930- )

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Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)

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Doris Betts (1932- )

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John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)

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James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

Erskine Caldwell (1903- )

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Truman Capote (1924-1984)

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Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)

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James Dickey (1923- )

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Ralph Ellison (1914- )

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

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John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)

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Shelby Foote (1916- )

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Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )

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Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

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Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

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Shirley Ann Grau (1929- )

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Paul Green (1894-1981)

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Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

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Andrew Lytle (1902- )

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

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Walker Percy (1916- )

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] (1862-1910)

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Reynolds Price (1933- )

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John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

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Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

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Elizabeth Spencer (1921- )

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Jesse Stuart (1906-1984)

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William Styron (1925- )

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Allen Tate (1899-1979)

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Peter Taylor (1917- )

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Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

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Anne Tyler (1941- )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905- )

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Eudora Welty (1909- )

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Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983)

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Stark Young (1881-1963)

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Contributors
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Doing Documentary Work (Includes discussion of James Agee in multiple chapters)
by Robert Coles. 278 pgs.

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Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary about his patients in New Jersey. "When I'm there, sitting with those folks, listening and talking," he said to Coles, "I'm part of that life, and I'm near it in my head, too.... Back here, sitting near this typewriter--its different. I'm a writer. I'm a doctor living in Rutherford who is describing 'a world elsewhere.'" Williams captured the great difficulty in documentary writing--the gulf that separates the reality of the subject from the point of view of the observer . Now, in this thought-provoking volume, the renowned child psychiatrist Robert Coles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Children in Crisis series, offers a penetrating look into the nature of documentary work. Utilizing the documentaries of writers, photographers, and others, Coles shows how their prose and pictures are influenced by the observer's frame of reference: their social and educational background, personal morals, and political beliefs. He discusses literary documentaries: James Agee's searching portrait of Depression-era tenant farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and George Orwell's passionate description of England's coal-miners, The Road to Wigan Pier. Like many documentarians, Coles argues, Agee and Orwell did not try to be objective, but instead showered unadulterated praise on the "noble" poor and vituperative contempt on the more privileged classes (including themselves) for "exploiting" these workers. Documentary photographs could be equally revealing about the observer. Coles analyzes how famous photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorthea Lange edited and cropped their pictures to produce a desired effect. Even the shield of the camera could not hide the presence of the photographer. Coles also illuminates his points through his personal portraits of William Carlos Williams; Robert Moses, one of the leaders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s; Erik H. Erikson, biographer of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther; and others. Documentary work, Coles concludes, is more a narrative constructed by the observer than a true slice of reality. With the growth in popularity of films such as Ken Burns's The Civil War and the controversial basketball documentary Hoop Dreams, the question of what is "real" in documentary work is more pressing than ever. Through revealing discussions with documentarians and insightful analysis of their work, complemented by dramatic black-and-white photographs from Lange and Evans, Doing Documentary Work will provoke the reader into reconsidering how fine the line is between truth and fiction. It is an invaluable resource for students of the documentary and anyone interested in this important genre.

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Doing Documentary Work

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Introduction

One the Work: Locations in Theory

Two: The Person as Documentarian

Three the Tradition: Fact and Fiction

Four: A Range of Documentary Inquiry

Epilogue "Documentary Studies": A Course on Documentary Work

Index

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