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Author : Lewis A. Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy's Feminine Characters written by Lewis A. Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Pridgen
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910406
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy's Sacramental Landscapes written by Allen Pridgen and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes oblivious to the sacramental signs of life, sometimes clear-eyed, both Will at the end of The Second Coming and Tom at the end of The Thanatos Syndrome finally assent to the wondrous possibilities these signs signify. They begin to believe in the possibilities for a life that waits for them on the horizon and down the road."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John F. Desmond
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325880
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy's Search for Community written by John F. Desmond and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this criticism of Percy, John F. Desmond traces the writer's enduring concerns with community. These concerns, Desmond argues, were grounded in the realism of such Scholastics as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.
Author : John Patrick Zmirak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy's Return to the Feminine written by John Patrick Zmirak and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Edward Hardy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013874
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (138 download)
Download or read book The Fiction of Walker Percy written by John Edward Hardy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy's study is concerned only with Percy's fiction, rather than his life, thought or his essays. He covers all six of Percy's novels from The Moviegoer (1961) to The Thanatos Syndrome (1987), and treats them only as fiction, rather than as philosophical disquisitions or religious treatises. Hardy presents a close reading of each novel, focusing on the internal artistic consistency of the works in regard to their subgenres, adopted conventions, narrative focus, and reader/text interactions. He reveals Percy as a judicious and knowledgeable practitioner in control of his medium. ISBN 0-252-01387-5: $24.95.
Author : William Rodney Allen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035357
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Walker Percy written by William Rodney Allen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1986 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Southwestern College (Winfield, Kan.)
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595270581
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Signs of the Giver written by Southwestern College (Winfield, Kan.) and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains collection of ten essays that focus on the fiction and non-fiction of southern novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990). Delivered during the 2002 Walker Percy Undergraduate Seminar held at Southwestern College in Winfield, KS, the contributors focus upon a wide array of topics relevant to the study of Percy's writings. Catholicism, race relations, existentialism and even Percy's semiotics receive attention in this dynamic collection.
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807151858
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Queer Chivalry written by Tison Pugh and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood, investigating the foundations of southern gallantry as a reincarnated and reauthorized version of medieval masculinity. Pugh argues that the idea of masculinity -- particularly as seen in works by prominent southern authors from Mark Twain to Ellen Gilchrist -- constitutes a cultural myth that queerly demarcates accepted norms of manliness, often by displaying the impossibility of its achievement. Beginning with Twain's famous critique of "the Sir Walter disease" that pilloried the South, Pugh focuses on authors who questioned the code of chivalry by creating protagonists whose quests for personal knighthood prove quixotic. Through detailed readings of major works -- including Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Flannery O'Connor's short fiction, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To, Walker Percy's novels, and Gilchrist's The Annunciation -- Pugh demonstrates that the hypermasculinity of white-knight ideals only draws attention to the ambiguous gender of the literary southern male. Employing insights from gender and psychoanalytic theory, Queer Chivalry contributes to recent critical discussions of the cloaked anxieties about gender and sexuality in southern literature. Ultimately, Pugh uncovers queer limits in the cavalier mythos, showing how facts and fictions contributed to the ideological formulation of the South.
Author : Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813529738
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Uncontained written by Elizabeth A. Wheeler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-war era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. This book offers a critique of this familiar story, evident in the noir narratives of James M. Cain and in work by Ellison, Roth, Salinger, Percy, Capote and others.
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 : Shelby Foote
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393317688
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy written by Shelby Foote and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death of Foote's mother and Percy's battle with cancer, their letters are full of sly humor, good-natured ribbing, and a large dose of self-mockery.
Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820316659
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Literary Percys written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few families in America can claim so many gifted writers as the Percys. This examines the role of gender and family history in the writings of this exceptional lineage.
Author : Greg Forter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501240
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism written by Greg Forter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold reading of canonical modernism in the United States.
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 : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814069X
Total Pages : 3854 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Author : Douglas B. Chambers
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032921
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Personal Souths written by Douglas B. Chambers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Souths, a collection of twenty interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. The figures interviewed range from Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams (all from the 1970s), to a virtual Who's Who of southern literature in the second half of the twentieth century. All of these interviews were originally published in the journal in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and are collected here for the first time. The South is represented broadly, with writers from eight states; at least four represent the “mountain South” (Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith), while another four typify a “cosmopolitan South” (Reynolds Price, Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Spencer, Tennessee Williams). The greatest number of voices, at least eight of the authors, speak for or from the “poor white South” (Larry Brown, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crews, Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Del Shores, Lee Smith). Though there is only one African American writer, Ernest J. Gaines, another interview (William Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner) also focuses on a conversation about African American literature. The interviews are all fascinating. Not only do they reveal the personalities of these southern literary stars, but they also represent a self-conscious community of writers. It is a testament to the quality of The Southern Quarterly that many of these writers, when discussing their most important contemporaries, often refer to other writers whose interviews are also in this collection. These firsthand discussions will continue to illuminate and inform our understanding of their creative work.
Author : S.D. Sharma
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126902071
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Studies in Fiction written by S.D. Sharma and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies In Fiction Deals With George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Thomas Love Peacock, Anita Desai, Jerome David Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, W.M. Thackeray, George Eliot, Walker Percy And George Meredith In Addition To A Number Of Other Novelists. The Chapters Based On These Novelists Thoroughly And Conclusively Analyse And Summarise Only Those Aspects Which Form The Central Part Of The Modern Criticism. Novels Chosen For Discussion, Too, Are Those Which Usually Have A Scholarly Tradition Of Criticism. The Early As Well As The Late Victorian Fiction Has Been Re-Interpreted In The Light Of Uniformitarianism, Naturalism Newtorism And Darwinism.
