Eudora Welty And Walker Percy
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Eudora Welty and Walker Percy
Author | : Marion Montgomery |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786416637 |
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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.
Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time
Author | : Walker Percy,Eudora Welty |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : IND:39000001310783 |
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Remarks made at Millsaps College on the occasion of the inauguration of the Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Studies, March 15, 1982.
The Late Novels of Eudora Welty
Author | : Jan Nordby Gretlund,Karl-Heinz Westarp |
Publsiher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1570032319 |
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The Late Novels of Eudora Welty offers readings of two of the works considered to be Welty's most exciting both in innovative technique and postmodern existential statement. Fourteen new essays by internationally distinguished critics of Southern literature provide focused appraisals of Welty's last two novels: Losing Battles (1970), a provocative experiment in narration, and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist's Daughter (1972), a profound comment on our time.
Conversations with Eudora Welty
Author | : Peggy Whitman Prenshaw |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0878052062 |
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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
A Political Companion to Walker Percy
Author | : Peter Augustine Lawler,Brian A. Smith |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780813141893 |
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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.
Love in the Ruins
Author | : Walker Percy |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781453216200 |
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DIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div
Fyodor Dostoevsky Walker Percy and the Age of Suicide
Author | : John F. Desmond |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813231273 |
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"A study of the phenomenon of suicide, both actual and spiritual, in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy, drawing lines of continuity between the two authors and noting their differences. In the epilogue, Desmond offers a Christian counter-vision to the 'suicidal' ethos he has documented"--