Essay Collections on Percy (Books: 1979-1996)

• Broughton, Panthea, ed. The Art of Walker Percy: Stratagems for Being. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

• Bloom, Harold. Walker Percy: Modern Critical Views. Boston: Chelsea, 1986.

• Lawson, Lewis A. Following Percy: Essays on Walker Percy's Work. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1988.

• Crowley, J. Donald and Sue Mitchell Crowley. Critical Essays on Walker Percy. Boston: G.K. Hall 1989.

• Gretlund, Jan Norby and Karl-Heinz Westarp, eds. Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. [Foreword by Walker Percy.]

• Lawson, Lewis A. and Elzbieta H. Olesky, eds.Walker Percy's Feminine Characters. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Publishing, 1995.

• Lawson, Lewis A.Still Following Percy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.

Tables of Contents

Contents

• Binx Billing'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 Rindell
• Narrative Triangulation in The Last Gentleman --Simone Vaulthier
• Gentlemen and Fornicators: The Last Gentleman and 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 Lecclair
• Homo Loquens, Homo Symbolificus, Homo Sapiens: Walker Percy on Language--Weldon Thornton
• Reflections on Walker Percy's Theory of Language: Or, It Is Better to Stay with Helen Keller at the Well-House Tuscumbia, Alabama, Than to Venture to Mars and Be Devoured by the Ravening Particles--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

Contents

• The Moviegoer and American Fiction: Wonder and Alienation--Tony Tanner
• The Hero as "Case": The Last Gentleman--Frederick C. Crews
• The Ruins of Consensus: Love in the Ruins--Martin Luschei
• Walker Percy and Modern Gnosticism--Cleanth Brooks
• Lancelot--Joyce Carol Oates
• Toward home: place, language, and death in The Last Gentleman--Richard Pindell
• Narrative triangulation in The Last Gentleman--Simone Vauthier
• Lancelot: Sign for the Times--Jerome C. Christensen
• Answers and Ambiguity in Percy's The Second Coming--Doreen A. Fowler

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• A Personal Note From the Author
• Walker Percy's Indirect Communication
• Walker Percy's Southern Stoic
• The Moviegoer and the Stoic Heritage
• Walker Percy's The Moviegoer: The Cinema as Cave
• Time and Eternity in The Moviegoer
• English Romanticism...and 1930 science in The Moviegoer
• Walker Percy as Martian Visitor
• Tom More: Cartesian Physician
• Love in the Ruins: Sequel to Arrowsmith
• Walker Percy's Silent Character
• The Gnostic Vision in Lancelot
• Gnosis and Tine in Lancelot
• Walker Percy's Physicians and Patients
• Index

Contents

Reviews

• Moviegoing and Other Intimacies--Stanley Edgar Hyman
• Gentleman without a Past--Joyce Carol Oates
• The Hero as "Case"--Frederick C. Crews
• Ravening Particles of Anxiety--Wilfrid Sheed
• Clowns--V.S. Pritchett
• Logos and Epiphany: Walker Percy's Theory of Language--Charles P. Bigger
• The Quest for the Philosophical Novel--John Gardner
• A Thinking Man's Kurt Vonnegut--Benjamin DeMott
• A Pop-Socratic Survey of Despair--Francine Du Plessix Gray
• Percy's Christian Humanist, More Hero Than Saint--Thomas D'Evelyn

• Questions They Never Asked Me (So He Asked Them Himself)--Walker Percy

• The Pilgrimage of Walker Percy--Alfred Kazin
• Basking in the Eye of the Storm: The Esthetics of Loss in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer--Richard Pindell
• The Parabolic in Faulkner, O'Connor, and Percy--Sally McFague
• The Eschatological Vision of Walker Percy--Thomas LeClair
• The Search for Place in Walker Percy's Novels--Mark Johnson
• Walker Percy: Sensualist Thinker--William Dowie, S.J.
• A Symbolic Structure for Walker Percy's Fiction--J.P. Telotte
• Story, Story-Teller and Listener: Notes on Lancelot--Simone Vauthier
• Walker Percy and Modern Gnosticism--Cleanth Brooks
• The Semiotics of Memory: Suicide in The Second Coming--J. G. Kennedy
• Walker Percy's Wager: The Second Coming--Sue Mitchell Crowley
• Walker Percy's Prodigal Son--Lewis A. Lawson
• Walker Percy: The Continuity of the Complex Fate-- J. Donald Crowley

Contents

• Foreword: Approving and Disapproving Eyes--Walker Percy
• Preface--Karl-Heinz Westarp
• Abbreviations

• The Cross and the Delta: Walker Percy's Anthropology--Lewis A. Lawson
• Walker Percy's Enchanted Mountain--Gary M. Ciuba
• Two Conversations in Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome: Text and Context--Patrick Samway, S.J.
• The Engineer, Then and Now; or, Barrett's Choice--W.L. Godshalk
• Will Barrett Redux?--Joseph Schwartz

• Percy Forerunners, Family History, and Gothic Tradition--Bertram Wyatt-Brown
• Tradition in Amber: Walker Percy's Lancelot as Southern Metafiction--Susan V. Donaldson
• On the Porch with Marcus Aurelius: Walker Percy's Stoicism--Jan Nordy Gretlund
• Elegies for Gentlemen: Walker Percy's The Last Gentlemen and Eudora Welty's The Demonstrators --Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

• Kierkegaard and Percy: By Word, Away from the Philosophical--Marion Montgomery
• Lancelot and Walker Percy's Dispute with Sartre over Ontology--Kathleen Scullin
• The Darkness That I Part of Light; Lancelot and The Grand Inquisitor--Linda Whitney Hobson
• Language, Suicide, and the Writer: Walker Percy's Advancement of William Faulkner--John F. Desmond
• Man, Beast, and Others in Walker Percy--John Edward Hardy
• Lancelot and the Dynamics of the Intersubjective Community--Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.

• Walker Percy: The Novelist and Moralist--Ashley Brown
• Walker Percy's Brave New World: The Thanatos Syndrome--Francois Pitavy
• Father Smith's Confession in The Thanatos Syndrome--William Rodney Allen
• Walker Percy's Demonic Vision--Elzbieta H. Oleksy
• Pilgrim's Progress; or, A Few Night Thoughts on Tenderness and the Will to Power--Patricia Lewis Poteat
• The Thanatos Syndrome: Walker Percy's Tribute to Flannery O'Connor--Sue Mitchell Crowley

Contents

• Introduction
  
• The Dream Screen in The Moviegoer--Lewis A. Lawson
  
• Gesture and Style in The Moviegoer--Emory Elliott
  
• The Exclusionary Nature of The Moviegoer--Timothy K. Nixon
  
• Keeping Quentin Compson Alive: The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, and the Problem of Masculinity--Susan V. Donaldson
  
• 'The Cave... the Fence': A Lacanian Reading of Walker Percy's The Second Coming--Doreen Fowler
  
• The Privilege of Maternity: Teaching Language and Love in The Second Coming--Shelley M. Jackson
  
• Rereading Allison Huger: Making Silence Signify in The Second Coming--Elinor Ann Walker
  
• A Gentleness with Women: Loving, Caring, and Sexual Dilemmas in Walker Percy's Fiction--Anneke Leenhouts
  
• From Silence and Madness to the Exchange that Multiplies: Walker Percy and the Woman Question--Elzbieta H. Oleksy

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Neurobiology and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Walker Percy
• Walker Percy's South(s)
• The Dream Screen in The Moviegoer
• The Moviegoer Dates the Love Goddess
• Regression in the Service of Transcendence in The Moviegoer
• Will Barrett under the Telescope
• "The parent in the percept" in The Last Gentleman
• Will Barrett and "the fat rosy temple of Juno"
• Will Barrett's Psychoanalysis
• Tom More's "Nobel Prize Complex"
• Moviemaking in Lancelot
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index