Format:
VIII, 294 S.
ISBN:
0816188807
Series Statement:
Critical essays on American literature
Content:
Moviegoing and other intimacies / Stanley Edgar Hyman -- Gentleman without a past / Joyce Carol Oates -- The hero as "case" / Frederick C. Crews -- Ravening particles of anxiety / Wilfrid Sheed -- Clowns / V.S. Pritchett -- Logos and ephiphany : Walker Percy's theory of language / Charles P. Bigger -- The quest for the philosophical novel / John Gardner -- A thinking man's Kurt Vonnegut / Benjamin DeMott -- A pop-Socratic survey of despair / Francine Du Plessix Gray -- Percy's Christian humanist, more hero than saint / Thomas D'Evelyn -- Questions they never asked me (so he asked them himself) / Walker Percy -- The pilgrimage of Walker Percy / Alfred Kazin -- Basking in the eye of the storm : the esthetics of loss in Walker Percy's The moviegoer / Richard Pindell
Content:
The parabolic in Faulkner, O'Connor and Percy / Sally McFague -- The eschatological vision of Walker Percy / Thomas LeClair -- The search for place in Walker Percy's novels / Mark Johnson -- Walker Percy : Sensualist thinker / William Dowie, S.J. -- A symbolic structure for Walker Percy's fiction / J.P. Tellote -- Story, story-teller and listener : notes on Lancelot / Simone Vauthier -- Walker Percy and modern Gnosticism / Cleanth Brooks -- The semiotics of memory : suicide in The second coming / J.G.Kennedy -- Walker Percy's wager : The second coming / Sue Mitchell Crowley -- Walker Percy's prodigal son / Lewis A. Lawso -- Walker Percy : the continuity of the complex fate / J. Donald Crowley
Note:
Moviegoing and other intimacies / Stanley Edgar Hyman -- Gentleman without a past / Joyce Carol Oates -- The hero as "case" / Frederick C. Crews -- Ravening particles of anxiety / Wilfrid Sheed -- Clowns / V.S. Pritchett -- Logos and ephiphany : Walker Percy's theory of language / Charles P. Bigger -- The quest for the philosophical novel / John Gardner -- A thinking man's Kurt Vonnegut / Benjamin DeMott -- A pop-Socratic survey of despair / Francine Du Plessix Gray -- Percy's Christian humanist, more hero than saint / Thomas D'Evelyn -- Questions they never asked me (so he asked them himself) / Walker Percy -- The pilgrimage of Walker Percy / Alfred Kazin -- Basking in the eye of the storm : the esthetics of loss in Walker Percy's The moviegoer / Richard Pindell.
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The parabolic in Faulkner, O'Connor and Percy / Sally McFague -- The eschatological vision of Walker Percy / Thomas LeClair -- The search for place in Walker Percy's novels / Mark Johnson -- Walker Percy : Sensualist thinker / William Dowie, S.J. -- A symbolic structure for Walker Percy's fiction / J.P. Tellote -- Story, story-teller and listener : notes on Lancelot / Simone Vauthier -- Walker Percy and modern Gnosticism / Cleanth Brooks -- The semiotics of memory : suicide in The second coming / J.G.Kennedy -- Walker Percy's wager : The second coming / Sue Mitchell Crowley -- Walker Percy's prodigal son / Lewis A. Lawso -- Walker Percy : the continuity of the complex fate / J. Donald Crowley.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Percy, Walker 1916-1990
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