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

["Gray, Rich" <RGray AT montreat.edu>]

I nominate John Sykes’ FLANNERY O’CONNOR, WALKER PERCY, AND THE AESTHETIC OF REVELATION, U Missouri P, 2007. 

 

Rich Gray

 

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From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of RHONDA MCDONNELL
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:47 PM
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?

 

Of late, I've been stricken with spring malaise, and find myself longing for a good rotation. Commiserating with Binx might be just the ticket.

--Rhonda

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."
  
                                    Walker Percy

 

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From: jeffballow AT nycmail.com
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:16:34 -0500
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?

Thanks everyone for the feedback - much appreciated.  Everyone seems to be hibernating -- at least here in the Northeast.  So I figure what better way to shake off the mid-winter blues and celebrate Fat Tuesday than by re-reading The Moviegoer....

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From: "RHONDA MCDONNELL"
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:22:02 -0700

I thought you all died! Glad to know you were merely sleeping (as was I).
 
Both Lawson books are tops, and most of what's out there adds to the critical conversation on Percy (I'd steer clear of the Poteat book, though. It's pretty far off course). The collections of letters--A Thief of Peirce--and the Walker Percy Shelby Foote letters are interesting for the insight they offer. And, give Lost in the Cosmos, by Percy, a read. It's the closest he came to setting down his philosophy in one place.
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