[percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?

Jordan Dominy jjdominy at ufl.edu
Sun Feb 17 10:21:51 EST 2008


Gary Ciuba has a book from last year that includes Percy as well as  
Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, and Cormac McCarthy called  
Desire Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction.  It's out  
from the LSU Press.

Jordan
On Feb 17, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Doug wrote:

> Ah, springtime!  All the slumbering Percians emerging from their  
> long dyadic
> dreams and reemerging into the bright triadic world, blinking
> bemusedly...Well timed, Jeff.
>
> Karey's list is a great help (thanks for sending that around,  
> Karey).  If
> you're wondering where to start, I would say Jay Tolson's biography (a
> well-written intellectual bio) and two relatively recent books:  John
> Desmond's Walker Percy's Search for Community (great readings of  
> all the
> novels and a sound intro to Percy's semiotics) and Farrell O'Gorman's
> Peculiar Crossroads (for Percy and O'Connor in relation to mid-century
> Catholic thought and southern letters generally).
>
> Best,
> Doug
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Ballow" <jeffballow at nycmail.com>
> To: <percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:35 PM
> Subject: [percy-l] Lit Crit on Percy - Where to Start?
>
>
>> Hi All - New to this list but a long-time fan of Percy. While I  
>> have read
>> his novels and essays, I haven't really read any literary  
>> criticism on his
>> work.  Which books (or articles/essays even) should I start with?   
>> Many
>> thanks....
>>
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