Critical Essays on Walker Percy

G. K. HALL

J. Donald Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley

— A collection of critical reviews and essays reflecting the historical development of opinion about Walker Percy. Includes an interview with the author and an extensive introduction tracing the history of Percy scholarship. – Book News (Portland, OR)

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

Self-Interview

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

Essays

• 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

J. Donald Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley are the editors of Critical Essays on Walker Percy.

Publication Date: June 1, 1989