Walker Percy, Art and Ethics

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Jac L. Tharpe, Editor

— This book was originally published as a special series essay collection in Southern Quarterly journal.

Original Citation:
The Southern Quarterly (Hattiesburg, MS), Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Spring, 1980. [13 articles]

SPECIAL ISSUE: Walker Percy

Table of Contents

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

Jac Tharpe is the author of Walker Percy (Twayne Authors Series, 1983) and editor of Walker Percy, Art and Ethics (1980).

Publication Date: 1980