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

[Ken Armstrong <kennenathens AT verizon.net>]

Richard M. Weaver addresses this explicitly in some of his books, e.g. 
The Southern Essays of Richard M Weaver. Did anyone mention "I'll Take 
My Stand"?

Ken A

RHONDA MCDONNELL wrote:
> Geographically, it's the part of the US south of the Mason-Dixon line. 
> However, the southwest isn't culturally Southern in the way the 
> southeast is.  For ease of reference, use the states that were part of 
> the Confederacy to get your geographical bearing. 
>  
> Some good books that will help you get hold of cultural values:  
> Pretty much anything by Betram Wyatt-Brown; The Mind of the South by 
> W. J. Cash; The Mind of the South 50 Years Later by Bruce Clayton et. 
> al, Writing the South by Richard Gray; and Lanterns on the Levee by 
> William Alexander Percy
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>
> --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: riz_banu AT hotmail.com
> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:18:09 +0530
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot
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> I am trying to understand the South in its myriad images. What is the 
> South? 
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> From: karey1 AT charter.net
> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:31:29 -0500
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot
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> Now that I think of it, there were two really great books out in this 
> century comparing Percy to other authors:
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> Paul Elie’s “The Life You Save May be Your Own:  An American 
> Pilgrimage” discusses Percy, O’Connor, Merton, and Dorothy Day.
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> Lamar Nisley’s “Impossible to Say:  Representing Religious Mystery in 
> Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick and O’Connor”
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> Both good.
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> Karey
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> *From:* percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles Lowry
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:29 PM
> *To:* Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [percy-l] lancelot
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> I am neither professional nor expert, but here are a couple thoughts.
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> The first writer that comes to mind for me as similar to Percy is 
> Richard Ford.  It is interesting that the first two novels in his 
> trilogy both show remarkable indebetness to The Moviegoer.  In the 
> first, The Sportswriter, the similarities are verbal and situational.  
> In the second, Independence Day, the similarity is thematic, that 
> alienation is addressed through the search.
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> Regarding the O'Connor-Percy question, I am reading now a book by John 
> D. Sykes Jr.: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of 
> Revelation.  He makes the point that Percy and O'Connor are both 
> writing in the post-Faulkner, post-Lost Great Cause era of Southern 
> literature, and to replace that ideal, they turn to a literature of 
> community and religion, but turn to it in different ways.  O'Connor 
> aims toward a build-up, toward a "climactic image" intended to effect 
> contemplation, not conversation.  Percy preferred the way of search 
> and dialogue, internal and external, to engage his readers.
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> Thoughts from a very snowy Brooklyn.
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> Chuck Lowry
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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Graham Culbertson 
> <gw.culbertson AT gmail.com <mailto:gw.culbertson AT gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Rizwana,  I've found John Barth's first two novels (The Floating Opera 
> and The End of the Road) to have a great many similarities to Percy's 
> novels.  An essay that links them negatively, which I haven't actually 
> had a chance to read, is:
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> Bradbury, John M. "Absurd Insurrection: The Barth-Percy Affair." South 
> Atlantic Quarterly 68 (Summer 1969): 319-29
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> Graham Culbertson
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