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  • From: Jordan Dominy <jjdominy AT ufl.edu>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?
  • Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:21:51 -0500

Gary Ciuba has a book from last year that includes Percy as well as Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, and Cormac McCarthy called Desire Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction.  It's out from the LSU Press.  

Jordan
On Feb 17, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Doug wrote:

Ah, springtime!  All the slumbering Percians emerging from their long dyadic 
dreams and reemerging into the bright triadic world, blinking 
bemusedly...Well timed, Jeff.

Karey's list is a great help (thanks for sending that around, Karey).  If 
you're wondering where to start, I would say Jay Tolson's biography (a 
well-written intellectual bio) and two relatively recent books:  John 
Desmond's Walker Percy's Search for Community (great readings of all the 
novels and a sound intro to Percy's semiotics) and Farrell O'Gorman's 
Peculiar Crossroads (for Percy and O'Connor in relation to mid-century 
Catholic thought and southern letters generally).

Best,
Doug




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Ballow" <jeffballow AT nycmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:35 PM
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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