Dissertations 1985-1994

NOTE--this is only a listing of title, author, university, degree, and year for Percy-related dissertations for the ten-year period ending 1994, and this file is an initial supplement for those disserations already listed in Hobson's Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography (1988). For more complete bibliographic information about most of the below, including abstracts, consult Dissertation Abstracts International Bibliography (available in CD-ROM in most university libraries). Thirty-two (32) dissertations are listed for the period, each year being separated, for format purposes, by a line-bar.



Private Battles, Culture Wars: White Southern Writers And The Movement For Black Civil Rights
Dillard, Gail Presley
Florida State University, Phd, 1994

Conflicting Aims: The Fiction Of Walker Percy
Pharr, Donald Bruce
University Of Georgia, 1994

Comedy Of Redemption In Three Southern Writers
(Faulkner, Percy, Toole)
Gardner, Carolyn Patricia
Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical Colllege, Phd, 1994

Limits, Risks, And Possibilities: Discourse And Religion In A Selection Of Twentieth Century American Novels
Brownlee, James Henry
University Of Minnesota, Phd, 1994

Redefining Southern Fiction: Josephine Humphreys And Jill Mccorkle
Walker, Elinor Ann
The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Phd, 1994

An Application Of Walker Percy's Theory Of Language To The Dialectic Of Drive And Object In Psychoanalytic Theory
Popp, Kevin William
George Fox College, Psyd, 1994


Autobiography As Repetition In The Works Of Walker Percy
Dupuy, Edward Joseph,
Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College, Phd, 1993

Guiding The Wayfarer: Children As Moral Exemplars In The Novels Of Walker Percy
Anderson, Fred K.
New York University, Phd , 1993

Radiant Veils And Dark Mirrors: Twentieth-Century Versions Of Allegory (O'connor, Percy, Pynchon)
Baker, J. Robert
University Of Notre Dame, Phd, 1993


Rescuing The Human Mystery: A Study Of Walker Percy's Thought In His Fiction, 'Lost In The Cosmos', And Other Writings
Jenkins, William Thomas
University Of Arkansas, Phd, 1992

Toward A Triadic Theory Of Walker Percy: A Semiotic Reading Of The Novels
Mcdonald, Harold Lawson, Jr.
The University Of North Carolina At Greensboro, Phd, 1992

Sacred Texts: Nature, Context And Pedagogy
Warner, Mary Louise
The University Of Michigan, Ad, 1992

'A Quality Of Consciousness': Walker Percy's Dialogic Art
Kobre, Michael Jeffrey
Ohio University, Phd, 1992


Language Play In Three Novels By Walker Percy
Humble, Thomas Edward
The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill , Phd , 1991

Naming The Terror: The Medical Narratives Of Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, And Walker Percy
Carlisle, Timothy Charles
Washington State University, Phd, 1991

The Dynamics Of The Absurd In The Existentialist Novel
(Camus Albert, France, Unamuno Miguel De, Spain, Sartre
Jean Paul, Wright Richard, Percy Walker)
Baker, Richard Eugene
University Of Colorado At Boulder , Phd, 1991


The Signs Of Christianity In The Work Of Walker Percy
(Semiotic)
Futrell, Ann Mace
University Of Alabama, Phd, 1990

Mass Culture And The Postmodern Historical Imagination: Readings In Contemporary American Fiction
Simmons, Philip Edward
University Of Michigan, Phd, 1990

Prophecy In Reverse: Walker Percy As Dystopian Satirist
Belfar, Edward
Temple University, Phd, 1990


His Becoming Popular: Establishing Soren Kierkegaard In The English-Speaking World
Barker, Barbara Graham
University Of Washington, Phd, 1989

'Old Ways Not Forgotten': Cultural Revisions In Contemporary Southern Fiction
Mcfadden, Mara Lynn
Indiana University, Phd , 1989

The Southern Cultural Tradition In The Works Of Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, And Walker Percy
Blair, John M.
Tulane University, Phd, 1989


Walker Percy's Cinema-Verite
Fister, Charles Francis
University Of Massachusetts, Phd, 1988


Narrative Virtue: A Study Of Character In The Works Of James Agee, Walker Percy, And Robert Penn Warren
Ledbetter, Tony Mark
Emory University, Phd, 1987

The Divided Self In The Fiction Of Walker Percy
Wulfsberg, Martha Montello
University Of Maryland College Park, Phd, 1987

'In That City Foreign And Paradoxical': The Idea Of New Orleans In The Southern Literary Imagination
Woodland, James Randal
University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Phd, 1987

The Level Glance And The Search For Morality In Modern Fiction
Allosso, Salvatore Francis
University Of California, Davis, Phd, 1987


The Apocalyptic Vision In The Fiction Of Walker Percy
Ciuba, Gary Martin
Fordham University, Phd, 1986

The Gift Of The Other: Gabriel Marcel's Concept Of
Intersubjectivity In Walker Percy's Novels
Howland, Mary Deems
University Of Maryland College Park, Phd, 1986

Dropping Out: Spiritual Crisis And Countercultural Attitudes In Four American Novelists Of The 1960s (Updike, Percy, Brautigan, Pynchon)
Horvath, Brooke Kenton
Purdue University, Phd, 1986


Observing Communion: An Investigation Of Alienation And Sacramental Re-Entry In The Novels Of Walker Percy
Schreiber, Paul Clifton
University Of California, Santa Cruz, Phd, 1985

The Critical Response To Philosophical Ideas In Walker Percy's Novels
Gunter, Elizabeth Ellington
University Of North Texas, Phd, 1985


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