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Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Faust Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Diagnosing the Modern Malaise written by Walker Percy and published by Faust Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216375
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Signposts in a Strange Land written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South’s most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy’s celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.
Author : Michael Kobre
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820321400
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy's Voices written by Michael Kobre and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walker Percy's novels are fraught with characters struggling toward a destiny and purpose in life who must sort through conflicting inner voices and the voices of family, friends, therapists, and mentors until they finally find their own paths. Through trial, error, and retrial, Percy's characters continuously reinvent themselves, struggling until they reach solutions, satisfaction, and maturity. In this multifaceted work, Michael Kobre analyzes Walker Percy's major fiction works--The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome--in terms of the Russian philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin's critical theory. Kobre begins with an introduction to Percy's view of language and consciousness and a clear, accessible explanation of Bakhtin's ideas. His subsequent discussion of the novels connects each work in turn with Percy's advancing career and explores the deepening conflict in Percy's fiction between his desire to express his own religious and moral beliefs and his commitment to the essential freedom of his art--the play of many voices in his narratives.
Author : Marion Montgomery
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786416639
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Eudora Welty and Walker Percy written by Marion Montgomery and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism. The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson, Mississippi, and was very much a member of the community. Percy was a wanderer who finally settled in Covington, Louisiana, because it was, as he called it, a "noplace." The author also asserts that Percy somewhat envied Welty and her stability in Jackson, and that for him, place was such a nagging concern that it became a personal problem to him as homo viator.
Author : Brent Little
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813236657
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Acts of Faith and Imagination written by Brent Little and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts of Faith and Imagination wagers that fiction written by Catholic authors assists readers to reflect critically on the question: "what is faith?" To speak of a person's "faith-life" is to speak of change and development. As a narrative form, literature can illustrate the dynamics of faith, which remains in flux over the course of one's life. Because human beings must possess faith in something (whether religious or not), it inevitably has a narrative structure?faith ebbs and flows, flourishes and decays, develops and stagnates. Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, Brent Little argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon their faith holistically, that is, the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and interacts with the world as embodied beings. Amidst the diverse stories of modern and contemporary fiction, a consistent pattern emerges: Catholic fiction portrays faith?at its most fundamental, often unconscious, level?as an act of the imagination. Faith is the way one imagines themselves, others, and creation. A person's primary faith conditions how they live in the world, regardless of the level of conscious reflection, and regardless of whether this is a "religious" faith. Acts of Faith and Imagination investigates the creative depth and vitality of the Catholic literary imagination by bringing late modern Catholic authors into dialogue with more contemporary ones. Readers will then consider well-known works, such as those by Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, and Muriel Spark in the fresh light of contemporary stories by Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, Uwem Akpan, and several others.
Author : John F. Desmond
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813231272
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide written by John F. Desmond and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide is a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. In his study, suicide is understood in both a literal and spiritual sense as referring to both the actual suicides in their works and to the broader social malaise of spiritual suicide, or despair. In the 19th century Dostoevsky called suicide “the terrible question of our age”. For his part, Percy understood 20th century Western culture as “suicidal” in both its social, political and military behavior and in the deeper sense that its citizenry had suffered an ontological “loss of self” or “deformation” of being. Likewise, Thomas Merton called the 20th century an “age of suicide”.
Author : Alwin Fill
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823346531
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)
Download or read book New-Found-Lands written by Alwin Fill and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Augustine Lawler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813141893
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book A Political Companion to Walker Percy written by Peter Augustine Lawler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory foundations of American life as a situation faced by the wandering and won-dering human soul. His controversial works combined existential questioning, scientific investigation, the insight of the southern stoic, and authentic religious faith to produce a singular view of humanity's place in the cosmos that ranks among the best American political thinking. An authoritative guide to the political thought of this celebrated yet complex American author, A Political Companion to Walker Percy includes seminal essays by Ralph C. Wood, Richard Reinsch II, and James V. Schall, S.J., as well as new analyses of Percy's view of Thomistic realism and his reaction to the American pursuit of happiness. Editors Peter Augustine Lawler and Brian A. Smith have assembled scholars of diverse perspectives who provide a necessary lens for interpreting Percy's works. This comprehensive introduction to Percy's "American Thomism" is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics.
Author : Abigail Cheever
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336017
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Real Phonies written by Abigail Cheever and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epithet "phony" was omnipresent during the postwar period in the United States. It was an easy appellation for individuals who appeared cynically to conform to codes of behavior for social approbation or advancement. Yet Holly Golightly "isn't a phony because she's a real phony," says her agent in Breakfast at Tiffany's. In exploring this remark, Abigail Cheever examines the ways in which social influence was thought to deform individuals in midcentury American culture. How could a person both be and not be herself at the same time? The answer lies in the period's complicated attitude toward social influence. If being real means that one's performative self is in line with one's authentic self, to be a real phony is to lack an authentic self as a point of reference--to lack a self that is independent of the social world. According to Cheever, Holly Golightly "is like a phony in that her beliefs are perfectly in accordance with social norms, but she is real insofar as those beliefs are all she has." Real Phonies examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity across the second half of the twentieth century--beginning with adolescents in the 1950s, like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield, and ending with mid-career professionals in the 1990s, like sports agent Jerry Maguire. Countering the critical assumption that, with the emergence of postmodernity, the ideal of "authentic self" disappeared, Cheever argues that concern with the authenticity of persons proliferated throughout the past half-century despite a significant ambiguity over what that self might look like. Cheever's analysis is structured around five key kinds of characters: adolescents, the insane, serial killers, and the figures of the assimilated Jew and the "company man." In particular, she finds a preoccupation in these works not so much with faked conformity but with the frightening notion of real uniformity--the notion that Holly, and others like her, could each genuinely be the same as everyone else.
Author : David B. Bowman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666700304
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Faith Rising--Between the Lines written by David B. Bowman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This writing intends to rouse would-be believers to faith—or enhance the faith of others—through the adventure of modern fiction. While taking note of the secularity of our era, the author insists the Spirit of God has not departed the scene. The opening poem by Emily Dickinson, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” proposes the author’s contention that the “indirect discourse” of fictional writers may welcome readers to faith’s door in ways sermonic speech never did. The modern authors chosen for this purpose are Izak Dinesen, Annie Dillard, Kent Haruf, Loren Eiseley, Gary Trudeau, Garrison Keillor, William Golding, Walker Percy, Frederick Buechner, and Gabriel Marcel. Having explained one work each by these noted authors, the book closes by pointing to ways in which embedded faith may rise out of these pages to meet the reader where he or she lives.
Author : John von Heyking
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221234
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Primacy of Persons in Politics written by John von Heyking and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as their departure point the political-philosophical analyses of German scholar Tilo Schabert, the philosophical and empirical essays in this volume invite the reader to move beyond the sterile dichotomy of political activity as either pure will or as folded into a more manageable activity.
Author : Leslie Marsh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319779680
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy, Philosopher written by Leslie Marsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher. This collection offers a sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser known philosophical interests, including the philosophy of place and dislocation. Contributors expound upon Percy’s multifaceted philosophy, an invitation to literature and theology scholars as well as to philosophers who may not be familiar with the philosophical underpinnings of his work.
Author : Kieran Quinlan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141427
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist written by Kieran Quinlan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary M. Ciuba
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337935
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy written by Gary M. Ciuba and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Walker Percy: Books of Revelations, Gary M. Ciuba examines how Percy's apocalyptic vision inspires the structure, themes, and strategies of his fiction. This book explores the unity of the southern novelist's fiction by focusing on its religious and artistic design—one of the first studies to approach Percy's work from this perspective. Ciuba considers Percy's six published novels—The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome—and also offers the first extended critical analysis of his unpublished work “The Gramercy Winner.” Although the novels are often seen as increasingly satiric jeremiads about the possible doom of America, Ciuba argues that Percy's fiction is principally shaped by a demythologized and partially realized form of eschatology. This apocalyptic vision has less to do with the end of the external world than with the demise of the protagonists' internal worldviews. According to Ciuba, Percy does more than offer direly comic warnings about the end of the world; he shows how the world actually ends and then may begin again in the everyday lives and extraordinary loves of his astonished seers.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374529215
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Life You Save May Be Your Own written by Paul Elie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor.
Author : Beverly Falk
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 080777099X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Defending Childhood written by Beverly Falk and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These pages make clear that the way to foster effective teaching is not with curriculum mandates and pacing guides but with professional learning opportunities that prepare expert educators to take advantage of and create teachable moments.” —From the Foreword by Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University This book brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media. Each chapter presents experiences and suggestions, from the perspectives of different disciplines, about what can be done to ensure that all children gain access to the supports they need for optimal physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development. Defending Childhood features: New knowledge about how children learn from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences. Effective teaching strategies that support learning and provide for the needs of the whole child. Examination of a broad range of issues that affect childhood, including violence, media and technology saturation, and a school culture of endless testing. Suggestions for policies and practices for an equitable educational system. Contributors include: Barbara Bowman, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Delis Cuéllar, Tiziana Filippini, Matia Finn-Stevenson, Eugene García, Howard Gardner, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, James J. Heckman, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Mara Krechevsky, George Madaus, Ben Mardell, Sonia Nieto, Valerie Polakow, Aisha Ray, Robert L. Selman, Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., Edward Zigler Beverly Falk is professor and director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at The School of Education, The City College of New York, and author of Teaching the Way Children Learn.
Author : Barbara Eckstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135403392
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Sustaining New Orleans written by Barbara Eckstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice.
