[percy-l] Lancelot
Ken Armstrong
kennenathens at verizon.net
Thu Mar 11 16:15:36 EST 2010
Richard M. Weaver addresses this explicitly in some of his books, e.g.
The Southern Essays of Richard M Weaver. Did anyone mention "I'll Take
My Stand"?
Ken A
RHONDA MCDONNELL wrote:
> Geographically, it's the part of the US south of the Mason-Dixon line.
> However, the southwest isn't culturally Southern in the way the
> southeast is. For ease of reference, use the states that were part of
> the Confederacy to get your geographical bearing.
>
> Some good books that will help you get hold of cultural values:
> Pretty much anything by Betram Wyatt-Brown; The Mind of the South by
> W. J. Cash; The Mind of the South 50 Years Later by Bruce Clayton et.
> al, Writing the South by Richard Gray; and Lanterns on the Levee by
> William Alexander Percy
>
>
> --Rhonda
>
> "You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in
> spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the
> faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."
>
> Walker Percy
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> From: riz_banu at hotmail.com
> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:18:09 +0530
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot
>
> I am trying to understand the South in its myriad images. What is the
> South?
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> From: karey1 at charter.net
> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:31:29 -0500
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot
>
> Now that I think of it, there were two really great books out in this
> century comparing Percy to other authors:
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> Paul Elie’s “The Life You Save May be Your Own: An American
> Pilgrimage” discusses Percy, O’Connor, Merton, and Dorothy Day.
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> Lamar Nisley’s “Impossible to Say: Representing Religious Mystery in
> Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick and O’Connor”
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> Both good.
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>
> Karey
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>
> *From:* percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles Lowry
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:29 PM
> *To:* Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [percy-l] lancelot
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> I am neither professional nor expert, but here are a couple thoughts.
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> The first writer that comes to mind for me as similar to Percy is
> Richard Ford. It is interesting that the first two novels in his
> trilogy both show remarkable indebetness to The Moviegoer. In the
> first, The Sportswriter, the similarities are verbal and situational.
> In the second, Independence Day, the similarity is thematic, that
> alienation is addressed through the search.
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> Regarding the O'Connor-Percy question, I am reading now a book by John
> D. Sykes Jr.: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of
> Revelation. He makes the point that Percy and O'Connor are both
> writing in the post-Faulkner, post-Lost Great Cause era of Southern
> literature, and to replace that ideal, they turn to a literature of
> community and religion, but turn to it in different ways. O'Connor
> aims toward a build-up, toward a "climactic image" intended to effect
> contemplation, not conversation. Percy preferred the way of search
> and dialogue, internal and external, to engage his readers.
>
> Thoughts from a very snowy Brooklyn.
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>
> Chuck Lowry
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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Graham Culbertson
> <gw.culbertson at gmail.com <mailto:gw.culbertson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Rizwana, I've found John Barth's first two novels (The Floating Opera
> and The End of the Road) to have a great many similarities to Percy's
> novels. An essay that links them negatively, which I haven't actually
> had a chance to read, is:
>
> Bradbury, John M. "Absurd Insurrection: The Barth-Percy Affair." South
> Atlantic Quarterly 68 (Summer 1969): 319-29
>
> Graham Culbertson
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