Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally disco...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Percy Walker.
Winner of the 1961 National Book Award 'The Moviegoer' is the dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature. 'The Moviegoer' is...
A bibliography of philosopher and author (Love in the Ruins, The Message in the Bottle, etc.), Walker Percy, including information on separate publications, first appearace cont...
Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist
Kieran Quinlan · ISBN 9780807122983
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti nidottu
In this important study, Kieran Quinlan examines the theological principles and religious views that underlay Walker Percy's writing, primarily his belief in the validity and ef...
Walker Percy's The Moviegoer at Fifty
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780807162736
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti sidottu
More than fifty years after its publication, Walker Percy's National Book Award Winner, The Moviegoer, still confronts, comforts, and enlightens generations of readers. This col...
Reading Walker Percy's Novels
Jessica Hooten Wilson · ISBN 9780807168776
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti nidottu
Walker Percy (1916- 1990) considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great ideas among a broad audience, and, more than half a century after they first appear...
Walker Percy Remembered
Harwell David Horace · ISBN 9780807871539
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti nidottu
Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana. In the spirit of trad...
Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
Jessica Hooten Wilson · ISBN 9780814254387
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti pokkari
Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-...
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, friend...
Walker Percy's Search for Community
John F. Desmond · ISBN 9780820335827
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti pokkari
In the first undertaking of its kind in Percy criticism, John F. Desmond traces—through Walker Percy's six published novels—the writer's central and enduring concerns with commu...
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 th...
Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
Brian A. Smith · ISBN 9781498537544
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti sidottu
Walker Percy is one of America’s great novelists, and he ought to be known as a political thinker as well. In Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer, Brian A. Smith makes...
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party – in Company with Flannery O`Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others
Marion Montgomery · ISBN 9781587319280
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380)
Walker Percy · ISBN 9781598537758
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti sidottu
In 1 volume, 3 classic early works by the Southern physician-turned-novelist who galvanized American literature with stories of spiritual searching amid modern angst Includes th...
This valuable and informative book is a study of Percy's five novels in the context of his southern and American literary sources and his tragic personal history. Though Percy h...
Walker Percy, Philosopher
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9783030085872
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti nidottu
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 phi...
Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning
Justin N. Bonanno · ISBN 9783031370229
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti sidottu
In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work on Walker Percy’s writings. While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approache...
Walker Percy, Philosopher
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9783319779676
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti sidottu
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 phi...
Walker Percy und der Kierkegaardsche Existentialismus
Jayashri Ghosh · ISBN 9783668142138
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli saksa pokkari
Conversations with Walker Percy
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780878052523
Julkaistu 1985 Kieli englanti nidottu
These collected interviews, like a visit with Percy at his home on the Bogue Falaya River, provide refreshing close-up encounters with one of America's most celebrated writers.T...