Journal Issues Dedicated to Percy Topics (1980-1992)

• The Southern Quarterly (Hattiesburg, MS), Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Spring, 1980. [13 articles]; republished as Tharpe, 1980.

• Delta: Revue du Centre d'Etude et de Recherches sur les Ecrivains du Sud aux Etats-Unis (L'Université Paul Valéry à Montpellier Cedex, France), Novembre, 1981, No. 13 [10]; published as Walker Percy,1981.

• South Carolina Review (Clemson, SC) Vol. 13, No. 2, 1981 [6 of 8].

• Renascense: Essays on Values in Literature (Milwaukee, WI), Winter, 1987, Vol. XL, No. 2 [6].

• New Orleans Review (Loyola University, LA), Winter, 1989, Vol. 16, No. 4 [10].

• Faith & Culture: A Journal of Christian Inquiry (Baton Rouge, LA), Vol. 1, No. 3, Nov.-Dec., 1990 [4].

• Renascense: Essays on Values in Literature (Milwaukee, WI), Spring, 1992, Vol. XLIV, No. 3 [5].

• [Literature and Belief, "Walker Percy and the Next Millennium,"Brigham Young University (forthcoming in the Winter of 1997).]

Tables of Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE
Walker Percy
Contents

• Introduction
  
• Percy and Place: Some Beginnings and Endings--John Edward Hardy
  
• Moviegoing in The Moviegoer--Lewis A. Lawson
  
• Walker Percy and the Resonance of the Word--Charles P. Bigger
  
• Art as Symbolic Action: Walker Percy's Aesthetic--Michael Pearson
  
• Charles Peirce and Walker Percy: From Semiotic to Narrative--J.P. Telotte
  
• Percy's Bludgeon: Message and Narrative Strategy--Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
  
• Voices in the Wilderness: The Prophets of O'Connor, Percy, and Powers--Susan S. Kissel
  
• Lancelot and the Medieval Quests of Sir Lancelot and Dante--Corinne Dale
  
• Lancelot: Sign for the Times--Jerome C. Christensen
  
• Walker Percy: Eschatology and the Politics of Grace--Cecil L. Eubanks
  
• A Walker Percy Bibliography--Joe Weixlmann and Daniel H. Gann
  
• Writing about Percy: Reviews--Randolph Bates
  
• Notes on Contributors
  

Walker Percy

• An Interview with Walker Percy--Ben Fornker and Gerald Kennedy
  
• A Frenchman's visit to Walker Percy--Gilbert Schricke
  
• L'exil de Binx Bolling--Claude Richard
  
• Love in the Ruins: Percy's Metaphysical Thriller--Max Webb
  
• Tom More: Cartesian Physician--Lewis A. Lawson
  
• Mimesis and Violence in Lancelot--Simone Vauthier
  
• The Semiotics of Memory: Suicide in The Second Coming--J.G. Kennedy
  
• A Rahnerian Backdrop to Percy's The Second Coming-- Patrick Samway
  
• Walker Percy's Theory of Language: A Linguist's Assessment--Frank Parker
  
• The Return of The Moviegoer: Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces--Robert Regan
  
• Bibliographie
  

• Story, Story-Teller and Listener: Notes on Lancelot--Simone Vauthier
• The Southernness of Walker Percy--Cleanth Brooks
• 'The Thread in the Labyrinth': Love in the Ruins and One Tradition of Comedy--John Cunningham
• Walker Percy: A Scandinavian View--Jan Nordby Gretlund
• The Allegory of the Cave and The Moviegoer--Lewis A. Lawson
• Interview with Walker Percy in His Home in Covington, Louisiana, January 2, 1981--Jan Nordby Gretlund

• Editor's Page--Joseph Schwartz
  
• Connecting the Self With What is Outside the in The Thanatos Syndrome--Kathleen Scullin-Esser
  
• "A Home That is Hope": Lost Cove, Tennessee--Michael Allen Mikolajczak
  
• Catholic Science Fiction and the Comic Apocalypse: Walker Percy and Walter Miller--R.V. Young
  
• Life and Death in The Last Gentleman--Joseph Schwartz
  
• The Linguist as Castaway: A Meditation on Walker Percy's Semiotic Apocalypse--Bruce L. Edwards
  
• Family Themes in Love in the Ruins and The Last Gentleman--Bryce J. Christensen
  
• Notes on Contributors

• Introduction: Walker Percy, Dangerous Genius--Mark Johnson
  
• Found in the Cosmos: Percy's First Self-Help Book--Gary M. Ciuba
  
• The Physician-Writer and the Cure of the Soul--James W. Tuttleton
  
• The Virgin and the Cooling Tower: Literature as Science in Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome--Mark Johnson
  
• Tom More and Sigmund Freud--Lewis A. Lawson
  
• The Diagnostic "I": Presenting the Case in The Thanatos Syndrome--Martha Montello
  
• Another Case of the Purloined Letter (in Walker Percy's Lancelot)--Patrick Samway, S.J.
  
• The Consolations of Fiction: Walker Percy's Dialogic Art-- Michael Kobre
  
• Disjunction of Time: Myth and History in The Thanatos Syndrome--John F. Desmond
  
• No Place Like Home: The World of Walker Percy's Fiction--John Edward Hardy

Walker Percy's Legacy

• Literature and Faith in Percy's Novels--Dr. John May
  
• Language in the Work of Walker Percy--Dr. Charles Bigger
  
• Sanity in a World Gone Mad--John Patrick Zmirak, Jr.
  
• In His Own Words, An Interview

• Editor's Page--Joseph Schwartz
  
• The Movement to Selfhood: Will Barrett's Second Coming--L. Jerome Taylor, Jr.
  
• Tom Moore's [sic] "Noble Prize Complex--Lewis Lawson
  
• Via Negativa and the Little Way: The Hidden God of The Moviegoer--Terrye Newkirk
  
• The Museum Scene in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman--David Hugh Werning
  
• Message to the Lost Self: Percy's Analysis of he Human Situation--Karl-Heinz Westrap
  
• Notes on Contributors