Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Henry Mills <hpmills3 AT austin.rr.com>]

Hi Jeff, 

Here's a list (see below) I've compiled of Percy works and Percy criticism -
while it may not be comprehensive, it's pretty thorough and at least a place
to start!  If others on the list have more contributions, let us know!  I'd
love to know!

Karey


**Works by Walker Percy**

Lancelot. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1977.
The Last Gentleman. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1966.
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. New York: Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 1983.
Love in the Ruins. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971.
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What
One Has to Do with the
    Other. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1975.
The Moviegoer. New York: Knopf, 1961.
The Second Coming. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980.
Signposts in a Strange Land. Edited with an introduction by Patrick Samway.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and
    Giroux, 1991.
"Symbol and Existence: A Study of Meaning," unpublished manuscript of 318
pages compiled in 1960-61.  in
    Percy collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.  miscellaneous chapters
published as essays.
"Walker Percy Papers" #4294, Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts
Department, Library of the
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, 1991. [About 255
items].
The Thanatos Syndrome. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987.

**Interviews with and Letters of Percy**

Lawson, Lewis A., and Victor A. Kramer. Conversations with Walker Percy.
Jackson: UP of 
    Mississippi, 1985.
----------.  More Conversations with Walker Percy. Jackson: UP of
Mississippi,1993
Samway, Patrick, S.J.  A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine
Ketner and Walker Percy. Jackson: UP
    of Mississippi, 1995.
Tolson, Jay, ed. The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy. New
York: Norton, 1997.

**Bibliographies of Percy and the Percys**

Baker, Lewis. The Percys of Mississippi: Politics and Literature in the New
South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana     State UP, 1983. In particular, see pp.
174-205.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Walker Percy. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 1986.
Samway, Patrick, S.J. Walker Percy: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux, 1997.
Tolson, Jay. Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1992.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination
in a Southern Family. New
 York: Oxford UP, 1994.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the
Southern Imagination. Athens:
    University of Georgia Press, 1994.

**Works about Percy:  Books**

Allen, William Rodney. Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer. Jackson: UP of
Mississippi, 1986.
Brinkmeyer, Robert H. Three Catholic Writers of the Modern South (Allen
Tate, Caroline Gordon, Walker
    Percy). Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1985, pp. 119-168.
Broughton, Panthea Reid. The Art of Walker Percy: Strategems for Being.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP,
    1979.
Ciuba, Gary. Walker Percy:  Books of Revelation. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1991.
Coke, John Todd. Walker Percy's Model of Experience. Dissertation,
Nashville:  Vanderbilt U, 1991.
Coles, Robert. Walker Percy:  An American Search. Boston: Little, Brown, and
Company, 1978_
Crowley, J. Donald and Sue Mitchell Crowley. Critical Essays on Walker
Percy. Boston: G.K. Hall 1989.
Desmond, John F. At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the
Writings of Walker Percy. Troy,
    N.Y.: Whitston Publishing Company, 1997.
Desmond, John F.  Walker Percy¹s Search for Community.  Athens: U of Georgia
P, 2004.
Dupuy, Edward. Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and
Redemption. Baton Rouge:
    Louisiana State UP, 1996.
Elliott, Carl, and John Lastos, eds. The Last Physician: Walker Percy and
the Moral Life of Medicine. Durham,
    N.C.: Duke UP, 1999.
Ertel, Karen Ruszler.  Naming of the Desert:  Communication in Walker
Percy's The Second Coming. Thesis.  Atlanta, GSU, 1984.
Futtrell, Ann Mace. The Signs of Christianity in the Work of Walker Percy.
San Francisco: Catholic Scholars
    Press, 1994.
Gretlund, Jan Norby, and Karl Heinz Westarp. Walker Percy: Novelist and
Philosopher. Jackson: UP of
    Mississippi, 1991.
Hawkins, Peter S. The Language of Grace: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy,
and Iris Murdoch. Cambridge,
    MA: Cowley, 1983.
Hardy, John Edward. The Fiction of Walker Percy. Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Hobson, Linda Whitney. Understanding Walker Percy. Columbia: University of
South Carolina, 1988.
Hobson, Linda Whitney. Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive
Bibliography. New Orleans: Faust, 1988.
    [Introduction by Walker Percy.]
Howland, Mary Deems. The Gift of the Other: Gabriel Marcel's Concept of
Intersubjec¬tivity in Walker Percy's
    Novels. Pittsburgh: Dusquesne UP, 1989.
Lawson, Lewis A. Following Percy: Essays on Walker Percy's Work.  Troy, NY:
Whitston, 1988.
Lathy, Edward Daniel.  Metaphor, Symbol, and Utterance: The Reality of
Relation in Susanne Langer and
    Mikhail Bakhtin.
Luschei, Martin. The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy's Diagnosis of the
Malaise. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
    UP, 1972.
Kobre, Michael. Walker Percy's Voices. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
2000.
Lawson, Lewis A. Following Percy. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Publishing Company,
1988.
----------. Still Following Percy. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.
Lawson, Lewis A., and Elzbieta Oleksy. Walker Percy's Feminine Characters.
Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Publishing
    Company, 1995.
Madathiparampil, George. Prophecy in American Fiction: A Study of the Novels
of Walker Percy. 
    Changanacherry: Sandesanilayam Press, 1983.
Nisly, L. Lamar.  Impossible to Say: Representing Religious Mystery in
Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and
    O'Connor. Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2002.
Poteat, Patricia Lewis. Walker Percy and the Old Modern Age: Reflections on
Language, Argument, and the     Telling of Stories. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State UP, 1985.
Pridgen, Allen. Walker Percy's Sacramental Landscapes. Selinsgrove, Pa.:
Susquehanna UP, 2000.
Prochaska, Bernadette. The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy's The Last
Gentleman. New York: Peter Lang,
    1992.
Quinlan, Kieran. Walker Percy: The Last Catholic Novelist. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State UP, 1996.
Rudnicki, Robert N. Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth Century
Southern Fic¬tion. Baton Rouge:
    Louisiana State UP, 1999.
Sweeny, Mary K. Walker Percy and the Postmodern World. Chicago: Loyola UP,
1987.
Tate, Allen. Collected Essays. Denver: Allen Swallow Press, 1959.
Taylor, Jerome. In Search of Self Life, Death, and Walker Percy. Cambridge,
MA: Cow¬ley Publications, 1986.
Tharpe, Jac, ed. Walker Percy, Art and Ethics. Jackson: UP of Mississippi,
1980.
Tharpe, Jac. Walker Percy. New York: G.K. Hall and Co., 1983. (?)
Tharpe, Jac. Walker Percy. Boston: Twayne, 1983. (?)
----------. Walker Percy's Heroes: A Kierkegaardian Analysis. New York:
Seabury, 1983.
Wood, Ralph C. The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in
Four American Novelists
    (O'Connor, Percy, Updike, DeVries). Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame, 1988, pp. 133-177.
Wright, Stuart T. Walker Percy, A Bibliography, 1930-1984: Based on the
Collection of the Compiler, including
    Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, etc. Westport,
CT: Meckler, 1986.
Vaughan, Philip H. Perceptions of Time and Place: A Critique of Five Novels
by Walker Percy. Bryn Mawr:
    Dorrance and Co., 1984.

**Works about Percy:  Articles and Dissertations**

Archer, Emily "Naming in the Neighborhood of Being: O'Connor and Percy on
Language" Studies-in-the-Literary-Imagination, Atlanta, GA (SLitI). 1987
Fall, 20:2, 97-108.
Bertonneau, Thomas F.  ³Saul Bellow and Walker Percy: Eulogists of the
Soul.²  Studies in American Jewish Literature, 1995.  14: 94-100.
Bigger, Charles. "Language in the Work of Walker Percy." Faith & Culture
(Baton Rouge, LA), Vol. 1, No. 3, Nov.-Dec., 1990, pp. 5-6.
Bizup, Joseph.  ³Hopkins' Influence on Percy's Love in the Ruins.²
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 1994 Summer.  46 (4): 247-59.
Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr."Walker Percy's Lancelot: Discovery through
Dialogue"
Renascence:-Essays-on-Value-in-Literature, Milwaukee, WI (Renascence). 1987
Fall, 40:1, 30-42.
Browning, Preston "Walker Percy and Gabriel Marcel: The Dialectical Self in
The Moviegoer" Renascence:-Essays-on-Value-in-Literature, Milwaukee, WI
(Renascence). 1988 Summer, 40:4, 279-287.
Churchill, John "Walker Percy, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, and the Lost Self"
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Knoxville) Fall, 1984, 67:3
267-282.
Ciuba, Gary M. "The Fierce Nun of The Last Gentleman: Percy's Vision of
Flannery O'Connor" The Flannery-O'Connor-Bulletin, Milledgeville, GA (FCB).
1986, 25, 57-66.
Ciuba, Gary M. "Found in the Cosmos: Percy's First Self-Help Book" New
Orleans Review (Loyola University), Winter, 1989, Vol. 16 No. 4 pp. 7-16.
Ciuba, Gary M. "Lancelot's New World of Language"
Notes-on-Mississippi-Writers, Hattiesburg, MS, 39406-
    5037 (NMW). 1988, 20:1, 1-7.
Derwin, Susan "Orality, Aggression, and Epistemology in Walker Percy's
Second Coming" Arizona-Quarterly,
    Tucson, AZ (ArQ). 1989 Summer, 45:2, 63-99.
Desmond, John "Walker Percy and T. S. Eliot: The Lancelot Andrewes
Connection" The Southern-Review, Baton Rouge, LA (SoR). 1986 Summer, 22:3,
465-477.
Desmond, John F.  ³Walker Percy's Eucharistic Vision.²  Renascence: Essays
on Values in Literature, 2000
    Spring.  52 (3): 219-31.
Desmond, John F.  ³Walker Percy's Triad: Science, Literature, and Religion.²
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 1994 Fall.  47 (1): 3-9
Edwards, Bruce L. "The Linguist as Castaway: A Meditation on Walker Percy's
Semiotic Apologetics" Renascence (Milwaukee), Winter, 1987, Vol XL No. 2,
pp. 129-144.
Esposito, Joseph L.  ³Lecture 8:  Toward a Logic of Mutual Affection.²
Peirce¹s Theory of Semiosis:  Toward a Logic of Mutual Affection.  Open
Semiotics Resource Center:  Semiotics Institute On-Line
[http://www.semioticon.com].  1999.  Retrieved December 1, 2006, from
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber/esp8.html
Esposito, Joseph L.  ³Synechism:  The Keystone of Peirce¹s Metaphysics.²
>From Peirce Related Papers on Arisbe:  The Peirce Gateway
[http://www.cspeirce.com].   Retrieved December 1, 2006, from
http://www.digitalpeirce.fee.unicamp.br/p-synesp.htm
Gunter, Elizabeth Ellington "The Critical Response to Philosophical Ideas in
Walker Percy's Novels"
DAI 1986 July, 47:1, 178A.
Hamner, Everett L.  "Relieving Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea: Semiotics,
Suicide, and the Search for God in Walker Percy's The Second Coming."
Christianity and Literature, 2003 Winter.  52 (2): 181-202.
Hardie, Joseph Keith, Jr. "Mouthers and Unmakers': Theories of Language in
the Work of Flann O'Brien, Walker Percy, and Charles Tomlinson" DAI. 1984
May, 44:11, 3380A.
Humble, Thomas Edward. "Language Play in Three Novels by Walker Percy"
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). DAI 1992 Jan, 52:7, 2553A.
DAI No.: DA9135271.
Humble, Thomas Edward.  ³Language Play in Three Novels by Walker Percy.²
Dissertation Abstracts International, 1992 Jan.  52 (7): 2553A. U of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Jenkins, Bill.  ³Language, Love, and the American Church in the Novels of
Walker Percy.²  Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South,
1993 Summer.  4 (2): 141-56.
Jenkins, Bill.  ³Walker Percy and Jacques Ellul: Technique and the
Humiliated Word.²  University of Dayton Review, 1993-1994 Winter.  22 (2):
89-99.
Jenkins, William Thomas.  ³Rescuing the Human Mystery: A Study of Walker
Percy's Thought in His Fiction, 'Lost in the Cosmos,' and Other Writings.²
Dissertation Abstracts International, 1994 Jan.  54 (7): 2579A-80A. U of
Arkansas, 1992.
Johnson, Elizabeth Dale. ³A Voice from the Bridge: A Study of Walker Percy's
Early Nonfiction on Language, 1954-1961.²  Dissertation Abstracts
International, 1996 Sept.  57 (3): 1123A. U of Maryland, College Park, 1995.
Kennedy, J. Gerald "The Semiotics of Memory: Suicide in The Second Coming"
Delta:-Revue-du-Centre-d'Etudes-et-de-Recherche-sur-les-Ecrivains-du-Sud-aux
-tats-Unis, 34032 Montpellier Cedex, France (DeltaES). 1981 Nov., 13,
103-125.
Ketner, Kenneth Laine  ³Novel Science: Or, How Contemporary Social Science
Is Not Well and Why Literature and Semeiotic Provide a Cure.²  Semiotica:
Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies/Revue de
l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique, 1993.  93 (1-2): 33-59.
Kobre, Michael Jeffrey.  ³'A Quality of Consciousness': Walker Percy's
Dialogic Art.²  Dissertation Abstracts International, 1992 Nov.  53 (5):
1515A. Ohio U.
Kramer, Victor A.  ³Walker Percy: Three Studies.²  Mississippi Quarterly:
The Journal of Southern Cultures, 1997-1998 Winter.  51 (1): 149-53.
Lathy, Edward Daniel.  Metaphor, Symbol, and Utterance:  The Reality of
Relation in Susanne Langer and Mikhail Bakhtin.  Dissertation Information
Service.  Ohio State University, 1985.
Lawler, Peter Augustine.  ³Aliens Are Us? Walker Percy's Response to Carl
Sagan on Wondering and Wandering.²  pp. 43-57 IN: Edmondson, Henry T., III
(ed. and introd.).  The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics.
Lanham, MD: Lexington.  2000. x, 261 pp. (book article)
Lawler, Peter Augustine.  ³Lost in the Cosmos: Walker Percy's Analysis of
American Restlessness.²  pp. 169-89 IN: Knippenberg, Joseph M. (ed.).
Lawler, Peter Augustine (ed.).  Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens:
Literary Alternatives to Postmodern Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.  1996. xxiii, 310 pp.
Lawson, Lewis A. ³The Cross and the Delta: Walker Percy's Anthropology.²
pp. 3-12 IN: Gretlund, Jan Nordby (ed.).  Westarp, Karl-Heinz (ed. & pref.).
Percy, Walker (fwd.).  Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher. Jackson: UP
of Mississippi.  1991. xv, 256 pp.
Lawson, Lewis.  ³The Origin of Will Barrett's 'Exceptional States'.²
Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, 1996-1997 Winter.
50 (1): 69-84.
Martin, Richard T.   ³Language Specificity as Pattern of Redemption in The
Thanatos Syndrome.²   Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 1996
Spring.  48 (3): 208-23.
McDonald, Harold Lawson, Jr.  ³Toward a Triadic Theory of Walker Percy: A
Semiotic Reading of the Novels.²  Dissertation Abstracts International, 1993
Mar.  53 (9): 3214A. U of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Mikolajczak, Michael A.  ³'A Home That Is Hope': Lost Cove, Tennessee.²
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 1998 Spring-Summer.  50 (3-4):
299-316.
Mikolajezak, Michael Allen. "`A Home That Is Hope': Lost Cove, Tennessee"
Renascence (Milwaukee), Winter, 1987, Vol XL No. 2, pp. 77-94.
Mooneyham, Laura.  ³The Origin of Consciousness, Gains and Losses: Walker
Percy vs. Julian Jaynes.²  Language & Communication: An Interdisciplinary
Journal, 1993 July.  13 (3): 169-82.
Nagel, Thomas. "Sin and Significance," (review of Message in the Bottle),
The New York Review of Books, September 18, 1975, pp. 54-56.
O'Gorman, Farrell.  ³Languages Of Mystery: Walker Percy's Legacy In
Contemporary Southern Fiction.²  Southern Literary Journal, 2002 Spring.  34
(2): 97-119.
Parker, Frank.  "Walker Percy's Theory of Language: A Linguist's Assessment"
Delta:-Revue-du-
Centre-d'Etudes-et-de-Recherche-sur-les-Ecrivains-du-Sud-aux-Etats-Unis,
34032 Montpellier Cedex, France (DeltaES). 1981 Nov., 13, 145-167.
Pearson, Michael.  "Language and Love in Walker Percy's The Second Coming"
Southern-Literary-Journal, Chapel Hill, NC (SLJ). 1987 Fall, 20:1, 89-100.
Pearson, Michael. The Rhetoric of Symbolic Action: Walker Percy's Way of
Knowing. Diss. Pennsylvania State U, 1977.
Pitts, May Ellen. "Love in the Fragments: Percy's Dr. Thomas More and the
Lacanian Triad" Studies in the Humanities (Indiana) June, 1989, Vol. 16
No.1, pp. 1-9.
Pridgen, Allen.  ³The Brownian Leaves: Sacramental Presence in Walker
Percy's The Last Gentleman.²  Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature,
1996 Summer.  48 (4): 296-308.
Pridgen, Allen.  ³Nature as Sacrament in Walker Percy's The Second Coming.²
Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, 1997-1998 Winter.
51 (1): 3-13.
Pridgen, Allen.  ³Up in His Head: Orbit and Sacrament in Walker Percy's The
Thanatos Syndrome.²  The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the
South, 1995 Fall.  34 (1): 32-38.
Quinlan, Kieran. "The Moviegoer: The Dilemma of Walker Percy's Scholastic
Existentialism."
in Young, Thomas Daniel (ed.). Modern American Fiction: Form and Function.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989, pp. 213-224.
Riehl, Robert Ellison. "The Ordeal of Naming: Walker Percy's Philosophy of
Language and His Novels" (The University of Texas) 1975.
Samway, Patrick, S.J. "Another Case of the Purloined Letter (In Walker
Percy's Lancelot) New Orleans Review (Loyola University), Winter, 1989, Vol.
16 No. 4 pp. 37-44.
Scullin-Esser, Kathleen "Art and Strategy in Walker Percy's 'Lancelot':
Visiting the Region of the Dead" DAI. 1988 Oct., 49:4, 817A.
Scullin-Esser, Kathleen "Connecting the Self with What Is Outside the Self
in The Thanatos Syndrome" Renascence:-Essays-on-Value-in-Literature,
Milwaukee, WI (Renascence). 1988 Winter, 40:2, 67-76
Smith, Tyler Przekop "Walker Percy's Fiction: The Vision of Distance" DAI
1985 Aug., 46:2, 426A-427A.
Telotte, J. P. "Walker Percy's Language of Creation" Southern Quarterly 16,
1978 pp. 105-116.
Westarp,-Karl-Heinz "Lost in the Cosmos: Place in Walker Percy."  The
Dolphin:-Publications-of-the-English-Department,-University-of-Aarhus, 8000
Aarhus C, Denmark (Dolphin). 1991 Spring, 20, 108-17.
Westarp, Karl-Heinz.  Lost in the Cosmos: Place in Walker Percy.  Dolphin:
Publications of the English Department, University of Aarhus, 1991 Spring.
20: 108-17.
Wulfsberg, Martha Montello "The Divided Self in the Fiction of Walker Percy"
DAI . 1988 Feb., 48:8, 2064A.
Zamora, Lois Parkinson "The Reader at the Movies: Semiotic Systems in Walker
Percy's The Moviegoer and Manuel Puig's La traicion de Rita Hayworth" The
American-Journal-of-Semiotics, Davis, CA (AJS). 1984, 3:1,
    50-67.
Zeugner, John F. "Walker Percy and Gabriel Marcel: The Castaway and the
Wayfarer" Mississippi Quarterly 28
    1975 pp. 21-53.






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Subject: [percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?

Hi All - New to this list but a long-time fan of Percy. While I have read
his novels and essays, I haven't really read any literary criticism on his
work.  Which books (or articles/essays even) should I start with?  Many
thanks....



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