Suggested Readings

Articles

Allman, William F. "The Mother Tongue" (U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 5, 1990, pp. 60-70). A popular science article describing linguists' attempt to "reconstruct" the origins of language which presents their thinkings alongside of current genetic research about the spread of humanity across the face of the earth.

Atkins, Douglas. "A(fter) D(econstruction): The Relations of Literature and Religion in the Wake of Deconstruction" (Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring, 1985, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, pp. 89-100). Attempts to locate a common ground between religion, literature, and deconstruction.

Demastes, William W. "Of Sciences and the Arts: From Influence to Interplay between Natural Philosophy and Drama" (Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 1991, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, pp. 75-89). Provides a further overview of quantum mechanics, while relating it drama theory and the evolution of theater.

Knedlik, Janet Blumberg. "Saussure, Derrida, and a `Christian' Literary Criticism?" (Christianity and Literature, Spring, 1990, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 293-302). Speculates about relevant concerns for negotiating a Christian literary criticism.

Nealon, Jeffrey. "The Discipline of Deconstruction" (PMLA, October, 1992, Vol. 107, No. 5, pp. 1266- 1279). Seeks to differentiate between the varying applications of deconstructive criticism and Derridian thought.

Papin, Liliane. "This is Not a Universe: Metaphor, Language, and Representation" (PMLA, October, 1992, Vol. 107, No. 5, pp. 1253-1264). Concerned with problems of language and metaphor as they relate to modern science and quantum mechanics.

Parks, Ward. "Deconstruction: The New Nihilism" (The World and I, April, 1992, pp. 547-561). Referenced above.

Percy, Walker. "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind" in Signposts in a Strange Land (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991). Offers in lay language a thoughtful criticism of the limitations of modern science and the need for a "new" model of mankind.

------------. "Naming and Being" in Signposts in a Strange Land (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991). Provides an abbreviated lay overview of Percy's key thoughts about language.

Thomson, David. "Deconstruction and Meaning in Medieval Mysticism" (Christianity and Literature, Winter, 1991, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 107-121). Referenced above.

Voegelin, Eric. "The Eclipse of Reality," (What Is History? And Other Late Unpublished Writings: Collected Works, Vol. 28, pp. 111-162 (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1990). Reference above.

Wright, Robert. "Quest for the Mother Tongue" (The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1991, pp. 39-68). Comprehensively outlines with detail the current competing theories for and against the existence of "proto-World," the primordial language suggested to underlie all modern languages.

Books

Casti, John. Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1989). A diverse exploration of mankind's unique status and place in the universe.

Chomsky, Noam. Language and Responsibility, John Virtel, trans. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1979). Referenced above.

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minn, 1983). An historical (political) overview/critique of the development of modern literary theory.

Felman, Shoshana. Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987). Referenced above.

Freud, Sigmund. An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, James Strachey, trans. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989). A concise, though technical overview of Freud's ideas.

Hawking, Stephen W. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988). Referenced above.

Kaufmann, Walter, ed. Existentialism: Dostoevsky to Sartre (New York: Meridian Books, 1975). Selected basic writings of the founders of Existentialism.

Parker, Frank. Linguistics for Non-Linguists (Austin: Pro-Ed, 1986). A introductory text to the fields of linguistics.

Percy, Walker. Lost in the Cosmos (New York: Washington Square Press, 1983). Referenced above.

------------. The Message in the Bottle (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1982). Some essays referenced above.

------------. Signposts in a Strange Land (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991). The posthumous publication of Percy's uncollected nonfiction works.

Restak, Richard. The Mind (New York: Bantam Books, 1988). A comprehensive overview of the human mind as explored by science.

Smith, Hudson. Beyond the Post-Modern Mind (Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing, 1989). A general, critical philosophical overview of the post-modern crisis of thinking.

Zukav, Gary. The Dancing Wu-Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (New York: Bantam Books, 1980). A clear lay introduction to quantum physics.

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