- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding James Rufus Agee.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | agee Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals". You may narrow
your search by including the Boolean term “and” along
with the title of the work in parenthesis. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collections I & II | james agee JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a number of revelant documents. |
| Contemporary
Authors |
james agee Perform the default search. |
Provides a profile of the author's life and works. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | james agee Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article and several related articles. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | james agee Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text". |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Literature Resource Center | james agee Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles. |
Provides a number of quality documents. |
| MagillOnLiterature | james agee Perform the default search. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Research Library Complete | james agee Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library". Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals". |
Provides a number of quality items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers
A-Z” and click on the Agee, James
link. |
Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography. |
| SIRS Renaissance | james agee Perform the "Quick Search".
|
Provides a small number of quality items. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Agee, James link. |
Provides a small number of quality items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
Agee on film
PN1993.5 .A1 A35 V.1
Location: Dothan
And their children
after them: the legacy of Let us now praise famous men, James Agee, Walker
Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the south
F326.A173 M34 1989
Location: Montgomery, Dothan
Benet’s
reader’s encyclopedia
Background information on the author and his works)
Ref PN41B4 1987
A Companion to
American thought
Location: eBook
The collected
poems of James Agee
PS3501.G35 A17 1968X
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
A death in the
family
PS3501.G35 D3
Location: Dothan, Phenix City
Encyclopedia of
the essay
Location: eBook
The history of
southern literature
Location: eBook
Irony in the mind’s
life/essays on novels by James Agee, Elizabeth Bowen, and George Eliot
PR823.C58 1947
Location: Dothan, Phenix City
James Agee
PS3501.G35 Z74 1975
Location: Dothan, Phenix City
James Agee: a
life
PS3501.G35 Z59 1984
Location: Dothan
James Agee and
the legend of himself: a critical study
PS3501.G35 Z894 1998
Location: Troy, AL
James Agee: reconsiderations
PS3501.G35 Z736 1992
Location: Troy, AL
James Agee, selected
journalism
PS3501.G35 A6 1985
Location: Dothan
Let us now praise
famous men
F326.A17 1941
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
Let us now praise
famous men: three tenant families
F326.A172 A535 1988
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
Letters of James
Agee to Father Flye
PS3501.G35 Z54 1962
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
Listening to the
page: adventures in reading and writing
Location: eBook
Patterns for America
:modernism and the concept of culture
Location: eBook
Remembering James
Agee
PS3501.G35 Z86 1997
Location: Montgomery, Phenix City
The restless journey
of James Agee
PS3501.G35 A6 1985
Location: Phenix City
Stories of modern
America
PZ1.G48 ST
Location: Troy, AL
The text and the
voice: writing, speaking, and democracy in American literature
Location: eBook
Twentieth-century literary criticism
Ref PN771G27 v.1, v.19
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Agee Films
http://www.ageefilms.org/agee.html
- James Agee, by
Gloria Steinhardt
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersA/agee.html
- James Agee as Outsider:
Distance Described Through Documentation, Self Reflection and Classism
In Praise of Famous Men
http://www.unc.edu/~fergusje/school/folk195_agee.pdf
- Let us now praise
famous menX
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/document/famous/agee.html
- Thomas Hampson:
I Hear America Singing
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/agee.html
- New York University
Portfolio: James Agee
http://journalweb.journalism.fas.nyu.edu/portfolio/books/book272.html
