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

["Karey Perkins" <karey1 AT charter.net>]

Yes, I was thinking that as well:  "I'll Take my Stand" 

How about some good ole' Faulkner?  Look at clash between old south and new
in "A Rose for Miss Emily."  Faulkner conveys the south through fiction
quite well.

Karey

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[mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ken Armstrong
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Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot

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
>
>
> --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
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>  
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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:
>
> Bradbury, John M. "Absurd Insurrection: The Barth-Percy Affair." South 
> Atlantic Quarterly 68 (Summer 1969): 319-29
>
> Graham Culbertson
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