| Description |
xix, 311 pages ; 23 cm. |
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age Children |
| Series |
Southern literary studies
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Southern literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Binx Bolling's New Orleans : moviegoing, Southern writing, and Father Abraham / Max Webb -- The moviegoer as dissolve / Martin Luschei -- Binx Bolling and the stages on life's way / Janet Hobbs -- Toward home : place, language, and death in The last gentleman / Richard Pindell -- Narrative triangulation in The last gentleman / Simone Vauthier -- Gentlemen and fornicators : The last gentleman and a bisected reality / Panthea Reid Broughton -- The sundered self and the riven world : Love in the ruins / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Love in the ruins : Thomas More's distorted vision / William Leigh Godshalk --Walker Percy's devil / Thomas LeClair -- Homo loquens, homo symbolificus, homo sapiens : Walker Percy on language / Weldon Thornton -- Reflections on Walker Percy's theory of language / William H. Poteat -- The fall of the House of Lamar / Lewis A. Lawson -- Lancelot and the search for sin / William J. Dowie -- Walker Percy and modern gnosticism / Cleanth Brooks -- Walker Percy and the archetypes / Ted R. Spivey. |
| Subject |
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Southern States. |
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Mississippi -- In literature.
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Mississippi. |
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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Juvenile literature.
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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Prosa -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Reid, Panthea.
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| ISBN |
0807105600 |
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9780807105603 |
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