Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose.

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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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Ontological Aspects of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men : Death, Irony, Faulkner; M.Gidley On the Porch and in the Room: Threshold Moments and Other Ethnographic Tropes in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; J.Dorst Walker Evans's Fictions of the South; A.Trachtenberg The Tyranny of Words in the Economy of Abundance: Modernism, Language, and Politics in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; S.Currell Agee, Evans, and the Therapeutic Document: Narrative Neurosis in the Function of Art; P.Hansom Two Prickes: The Colon as Practice; P.Rabinowitz Animating the Gudgers: On the Problems of a Cinematic Aesthetic in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; C.Blinder