Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle. This comprehensive study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new foreword by James Agee, this book places Biswell's studyand his legacyin the context of recent developments in the field."
Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics...
A landmark work of American photojournalism renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (New York Times)
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their...
A landmark work of American photojournalism renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (New York Times)
For the first time in book form-a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for creative differences, and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes.Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable...
For the first time in book form-a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article o...
Novelist, journalist, film critic, poet, and activist James Agee (1909?1955) produced an impressive array of literary works spanning three decades. His poems, novels, essays, works of criticism, and screenplays gave profound social insights into the Depression-ridden 1930s and war-torn 1940s, and scholars study and debate his work to this day. Agee, a Tennessee native, is arguably the most important literary figure from the state.James Agee Rediscovered, edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Hugh Davis, gives a newand unique perspective on this prolific writer. With this book, the editors have...
Novelist, journalist, film critic, poet, and activist James Agee (1909?1955) produced an impressive array of literary works spanning three decades. Hi...
Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manuscript that James Agee had completed at the time of his death. The inaugural title of the University of Tennessee Press's scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee, this restored text of A Death in the Family is, in many ways, a new novel. This volume provides, for the first time, a modern critical edition of Agee's manuscript,...
Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the ...
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Familyremains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and...
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published in 1957, two years after its author's d...
Eine Kleinstadt im amerikanischen Süden, eine harmonische Familie. Der Vater geht mit seinem kleinen Sohn ins Kino, zwischen ihnen herrscht große Sympathie. Am nächsten Morgen will der kleine Rufus Follet dem Vater seine neue Kappe vorführen - und die ganze Welt ist auf einen Schlag anders geworden. Jay Follet, der in der Nacht zu einem überstürzten Besuch beim kranken Vater aufgebrochen war, ist auf dem Rückweg nach Knoxville, Tennessee, bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben gekommen. Er hinterlässt eine junge Frau und zwei kleine Kinder.§Seitdem "Ein Todesfall in der Familie" 1957 zum...
Eine Kleinstadt im amerikanischen Süden, eine harmonische Familie. Der Vater geht mit seinem kleinen Sohn ins Kino, zwischen ihnen herrscht große Sy...
In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" and "A Death in the Family," James Agee spent almost two decades of his professional career in journalism, primarily as an anonymous staff writer for the Henry Luce magazines "Fortune" and "Time." At "Fortune," especially, Agee excelled in pointed, bemused reporting on American life that embraced a wide range of topics, from cockfighting to the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg to the ambitious programs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. What is arguably his most celebrated" Fortune "piece, The...
In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" and "A Death in the Family," James Agee spent almost two ...
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and after a torturous five-year struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author finally published it in book form as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," only to see it sink with barely a ripple. The posthumous revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's reissue in 1960, its adoption as an unofficial bible by civil rights...
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document ...
Idee zu einem Film und literarisches Meisterwerk zugleich: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision. §Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. Die entsetzlichen Auswirkungen hat niemand vorhergesehen: Kein menschliches Wesen hat überlebt. Mit Ausnahme des Tramp. Durch die menschenleere Wüstenei eines post-apokalyptischen New York wankt Charlie Chaplin in seiner Paraderolle als Vagabund, dem nur sein tiefschwarzer Humor geblieben ist. Und er stößt auf weitere Überlebende: eine junge Frau, ein Neugeborenes und ein Grüppchen Wissenschaftler, die sich inmitten der Ruinen eine Basis...
Idee zu einem Film und literarisches Meisterwerk zugleich: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision. §Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. ...
