Walker Percy : novelist and philosopher / edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp.

Other author Gretlund, Jan Nordby.
Other author Westarp, Karl-Heinz.
Format Book
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1991.
Descriptionxiv, 256 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
Philosophy in literature.

Contents The cross and the delta : Walker Percy's anthropology / Lewis A. Lawson -- Walker Percy's enchanted mountain / Gary M. Ciuba -- Two conversations in Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome : text and context / Patrick Samway -- The engineer, then and now; or, Barrett's choice / W.L. Godshalk -- Will Barrett redux? / Joseph Schwartz -- Percy forerunners, family history, and the gothic tradition / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Tradition in amber : Walker Percy's Lancelot as Southern metafiction / Susan V. Donaldson -- On the porch with Marcus Aurelius : Walker Percy's stoicism / Jan Nordby Gretlund -- Elegies for gentlemen : Walker Percy's The last gentleman and Eudora Welty's "The demonstrators" / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.
Contents Kierkegaard and Percy : by word, away from the philosophical / Marion Montgomery -- Lancelot and Walker Percy's dispute with Sartre over ontology / Kathleen Scullin -- The "darkness that is part of light" : Lancelot and "the grand inquisitor" / Linda Whitney Hobson -- Language, suicide, and the writer : Walker Percy's advancement of William Faulkner / John F. Desmond -- Man, beast, and others in Walker Percy / John Edward Hardy -- Lancelot and the dynamics of the intersubjective community / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Walker Percy : the novelist as moralist / Ashley Brown -- Walker Percy's brave new world : The Thanatos syndrome / François Pitavy -- "Father Smith's confession" in the The Thanatos syndrome / William Rodney Allen.
Contents Walker Percy's demonic vision / Elzbieta H. Olesky -- Pilgrim's progress; or, a few night thoughts on tenderness and the will to power / Patricia Lewis Poteat -- The Thanatos syndrome : Walker Percy's tribute to Flannery O'Connor / Sue Mitchell Crowley.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-248) and index.
LCCN 90049285
ISBN0878054871 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3566.E6912 Z96 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold