My name is Harry Whelchel and I am a 4th year at the University of
Virginia majoring in Religious Studies and Economics. I am currently
taking a class in our Religious Studies department taught by Prof.
Bill Wilson and Prof. Vigen Guroian on the subject of Walker Percy
and Flannery O'Connor. So far we have read The Loss of the Creature,
Metaphor as Mistake, The Message in the Bottle, and Lancelot by
Percy. We have read essays from O'Connor's Mystery and Manners as
well as her first novel Wise Blood.
I am interested in Percy to learn more about his works of fiction,
philosophy, and the conversation surrounding him. Recently I wrote a
paper on Lancelot detailing how the process itself of sharing his
story with Percival allows Lancelot to apprehend narrative's power to
convey sovereign experience. I then argued this apprehension changes
the world view Lancelot had developed and leads Lancelot to be open
to the possibility of God's existence (yet Percy leaves the reader
uncertain as to whether Lancelot will accept or reject God's
existence).
The exercise of writing on Lancelot, a difficult work that I am sure
I still do not fully grasp, led me to search for more academic
resources on Percy. So I decided to join this listserv.
Best,
Harry Whelchel
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