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- W149738314 abstract "In October, 1937, James Agee applied for a Guggenheim Fellow? ship. In support of this application he included a lengthy list of projects, those I am working on, or am interested to try, or expect to return to.1 Most of these projects were never actually undertaken; nor did he receive the fellowship. Others, notably An 'autobiographical novel' and An Alabama Record, are no doubt early references to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the posthumous A Death in the Family. Some items in the list indicate characteristic Agee concerns: Stories whose whole in? tention is the direct communication of the intensity of common expe? rience and 'Musical' uses of 'sensation' or 'emotion' are statements of concepts by which Agee lived and wrote. Among the rest, some of which seem very peculiar to the contemporary sensibility, one entry sug? gests the form of Agee's first novel, The Morning Watch; it reads sim? ply, Portraiture. Notes. The Triptych.2 Later in this application Agee explains that he had in mind the trip? tych form of mug shots with left-face, full-face, and right-face panels. And he was speaking in 1937 of photographic portraiture only. But the word triptych refers specifically to an altarpiece of three panels, the cen? ter one of which is dominant. It will be my contention that when Agee came to write The Morning Watch in the late 1940s, he employed this triptych structural device to bring focus to his novel of religious develop? ment. It will also be seen that the subject matter for this triptych is the Crucifixion, with the two thieves flanking the Christ on the Cross. Fur? thermore, the juxtaposition of this tripartite structure with the concen? trated narrative structure creates the special tension and ambiguity?in a word, the paradox?of the novelist's insight and vision. The center of the novel is the long passage of spiritual agony in which Richard, the twelve-year-old protagonist, seeks to identify viscerally with the passion of Christ. The scene is Lady Chapel of a High Church school for boys on the early morning of Good Friday. Curiously, the commenta" @default.
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- W149738314 title "THE DOUBLE STRUCTURE OF THE MORNING WATCH" @default.
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