From kareyperkins at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 13:24:08 2019 From: kareyperkins at gmail.com (Karey Perkins) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:24:08 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] CFP for Walker Percy session at SAMLA 2019 conference Nov. 8-10 In-Reply-To: <763BC3C6-B184-484F-968A-F29A0FC0765B@gmail.com> References: <763BC3C6-B184-484F-968A-F29A0FC0765B@gmail.com> Message-ID: <35C0DECD-DCE0-45F6-A69F-0402E2B42030@gmail.com> Call for Papers for a Walker Percy Session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association?s November conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference theme is ?Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships? and more detail about the theme and the conference can be found at this link: https://samla.memberclicks.net. Papers for this session may focus on any aspect of Walker Percy?s life and works, either fiction or non-fiction. Especially welcome are topics relevant to the SAMLA 91 conference theme: ?Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships.? For Percy, the human capacity for language and for naming gives us our identity and is only possible through relationships of intersubjectivity. Percy wrote extensively on language, creating his ?radical anthropology? based on his unique semiotic, with these themes pervasive in his novels. Please send 300-word abstracts by May 15, 2019, to Dr. Karey Perkins, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, kareyperkins at gmail.edu. Please also include a brief bio and any A/V requirements in your abstract. Karey Perkins From kareyperkins at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 13:32:34 2019 From: kareyperkins at gmail.com (Karey Perkins) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:32:34 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] CFP for Walker Percy session at SAMLA 2019 conference Nov. 8-10 In-Reply-To: <35C0DECD-DCE0-45F6-A69F-0402E2B42030@gmail.com> References: <763BC3C6-B184-484F-968A-F29A0FC0765B@gmail.com> <35C0DECD-DCE0-45F6-A69F-0402E2B42030@gmail.com> Message-ID: <9C47C652-3850-424B-8D3D-F56681EE2E11@gmail.com> Hi Henry, I sent this to the listserv ? did it go through? Is my email address updated? Thanks, Karey > On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:24 PM, Karey Perkins wrote: > > Call for Papers for a Walker Percy Session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association?s November conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference theme is ?Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships? and more detail about the theme and the conference can be found at this link: https://samla.memberclicks.net. > > Papers for this session may focus on any aspect of Walker Percy?s life and works, either fiction or non-fiction. Especially welcome are topics relevant to the SAMLA 91 conference theme: ?Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships.? For Percy, the human capacity for language and for naming gives us our identity and is only possible through relationships of intersubjectivity. Percy wrote extensively on language, creating his ?radical anthropology? based on his unique semiotic, with these themes pervasive in his novels. Please send 300-word abstracts by May 15, 2019, to Dr. Karey Perkins, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, kareyperkins at gmail.edu. Please also include a brief bio and any A/V requirements in your abstract. > > Karey Perkins > > From kareyperkins at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 20:14:35 2019 From: kareyperkins at gmail.com (Karey Perkins) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 20:14:35 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Correction to CFP for Walker Percy session at SAMLA 2019 conference In-Reply-To: <35C0DECD-DCE0-45F6-A69F-0402E2B42030@gmail.com> References: <763BC3C6-B184-484F-968A-F29A0FC0765B@gmail.com> <35C0DECD-DCE0-45F6-A69F-0402E2B42030@gmail.com> Message-ID: <90D02A65-9BD0-4F92-8B83-09C24007AB49@gmail.com> Sorry, email address correction to the CFP for SAMLA Percy session (see below): Send abstracts to: kareyperkins at gmail.com ? thanks!! Karey > On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:24 PM, Karey Perkins wrote: > > Call for Papers for a Walker Percy Session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association?s November conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference theme is ?Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships? and more detail about the theme and the conference can be found at this link: https://samla.memberclicks.net . > > Papers for this session may focus on any aspect of Walker Percy?s life and works, either fiction or non-fiction. Especially welcome are topics relevant to the SAMLA 91 conference theme: ?Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships.? For Percy, the human capacity for language and for naming gives us our identity and is only possible through relationships of intersubjectivity. Percy wrote extensively on language, creating his ?radical anthropology? based on his unique semiotic, with these themes pervasive in his novels. Please send 300-word abstracts by May 15, 2019, to Dr. Karey Perkins, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, kareyperkins at gmail.edu . 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Marsh reviews her two book-length studies entitled Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence (2017) and Reading Walker Percy's Novels (2018). The review is published in Southern Literary Review: A Magazine for Literature of the American South (March 7, 2019). Below, you will find the introductory paragraph to the review and a link to the complete review. Thank you, Leslie, for providing the Percy-L community with your insightful commentary on these two recent and broadening inquiries into Percy's writings and thought. All best, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator ________ Southern Literary Review: A Magazine for Literature of the American South MARCH READS OF THE MONTH: Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and The Search For Influence & Reading Walker Percy's Novels, by Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson A REVIEW BY LESLIE MARSH (3/7/2019) "Jessica Hooten Wilson's stated ambition is no less than 'to revitalize influence studies, especially as they relate to our religious assumptions about aesthetics.' On current form, she may well be the one to achieve this. Hooten Wilson's two books are dealt with in tandem not only because they have appeared in quick succession, but because there is inevitable overlap of interest, although they are each of a different character. The first book, more academically specialized, examines one of the primary influences on Percy, namely Dostoevsky, while the second is pitched at a general readership. The chapters in both books helpfully correspond sequentially to Percy's six novels?.Moreover, the first book features a preliminary chapter on Percy's two unpublished novels, The Charterhouse and The Gramercy Winner, while the second includes a biographical overview and an appendix on the non-fiction Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983)...." Continue reading here: http://southernlitreview.com/reviews/march-read-of-the-month-walker-percy-fyodor-dostoevsky-and-the-search-for-influence-by-jessica-hooten-wilson.htm -- Publications Information: Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence Ohio State University Press (October 2017, 200 pps.) Reading Walker Percy's Novels LSU Press (May 2018, 168 pps.) -- Purchase: You may purchase either book here to support the volunteer efforts of The Walker Percy Project: https://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/bookstore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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John Pearson > On Mar 19, 2019, at 9:26 AM, Janet wrote: > > I am guessing if it's a Christian Bale > Movie, it's not funny. > My favorite thing about Percy is his humor. Without that the movie has to fall flat. > I will see the movie but I have low expectations. > > Does anyone else feel the way I do? > Janet Cantor > > > On Feb 15, 2019 3:23 PM, Michael Larson wrote: > I like Terrence Malick, and Tree of Life is an especially poignant film, so I was pretty hopeful about Knight of Cups when I heard it was based on The Moviegoer. Unfortunately, Christian Bale's character is really nothing like Binx, and his search is almost insufferable. He's a quiet, painfully sensitive guy always looking for various women to give him meaning. But alas, none of them is ever quite enough for how sensitive he is, and he just keeps having to find another one. This is all inferred as there is literally no script or definable story line. By contrast, Binx likes his women, of course, but he is also bright enough to know that they are not the end of his search, and he is therefore also mentally healthy enough not to be locked forever in that loop. > > Just to be clear, I like Christian Bale's acting a lot. The fact that Knight of Cups is so vacuous is not his fault. It's Malick's. > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:33 PM > wrote: > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. More "Moviegoer" (Michael Serafin) > 2. Re: More "Moviegoer" (Henry P. Mills) > 3. Re: "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson > (Plemmons, Gregory) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 23:23:41 +0000 > From: Michael Serafin > > To: "percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org " > > Subject: [percy-l] More "Moviegoer" > Message-ID: > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > There is a new paperback edition of "Moviegoer" published in January, with an afterword by Paul Elie. > > I thought I read somewhere that Terence Malick has written a screenplay of "Moviegoer". Considering the kind of films he has been making lately, starting with 'Tree Of Life", he would probably do justice to the novel. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 02:31:23 -0500 > From: "Henry P. Mills" > > To: Percy-L > > Subject: Re: [percy-l] More "Moviegoer" > Message-ID: <796C3E7D-2655-4A7F-A38E-025B3FBA1ACE at gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Michael et al, > > Perhaps this brief transcription might shed some light on Malick and his use of the MG as noted in an earlier Percy-L post on his 2016 release of "Knight of Cups." Quite an amusing anecdote from lead Christian Bale. Did anyone see the movie to comment? > > Thanks for calling our attention to the new edition of the MG and Paul Elie?s afterword, Michael. > > Best, > Henry Mills > Percy-L Administrator > > ---- > Christian Bale hates talking about acting: 'I just want to push a pencil through my eyeball' > Audio Interview by Take Two, Southern California Public Radio > March 04 2016 > Source: https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/03/04/46931/christian-bale-on-acting-life-in-los-angeles-and-h/ > > While working on "Knight of Cups," Terrence Malik's latest film, > Christian Bale didn't have much to work with. > > "We would get on the set, they're already filming me [and] I don't know > what we're doing," said Bale. "The only research that Terry really gave > me other than our conversations ? which were extensive ? was the book by > Walker Percy, 'The Moviegoer,' where he's on a search for who knows > exactly what, but you know you must be on that search. > > Bale, who's best known for his roles in the Batman series, "The Fighter" > and his Oscar-nominated turn in "The Big Short," plays a decidedly > different character this time: a screenwriter named Rick that has lost > his way, spiritually and emotionally. > > He spoke to Take Two about the film, which is set in Los Angeles, > touching on the director's unique methods, filming with a confused cast, > how conversations about acting make him feel and more. > > On Terrence Malik's style: > > "He talked about how he wants to start to move towards films where > there's just no script whatsoever. Making a film that is more like, more > akin to a piece of music or to literature where the audience [have] > their own feelings about the film rather than being dictated to about > what they should be feeling... A lot of times he loves the fact that you > didn't say your lines. It's always just about being absolutely sincere > and truthful." > > ...continue the article and above media at: > http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/03/04/46931/christian-bale-on-acting-life-in-los-angeles-and-h/ > > > ORIGINAL PERCY-L POST > https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/2016-March/002084.html > > > > > > > > On Feb 1, 2019, at 6:23 PM, Michael Serafin > wrote: > > > > There is a new paperback edition of "Moviegoer" published in January, with an afterword by Paul Elie. > > > > I thought I read somewhere that Terence Malick has written a screenplay of "Moviegoer". Considering the kind of films he has been making lately, starting with 'Tree Of Life", he would probably do justice to the novel. > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:50:19 +0000 > From: "Plemmons, Gregory" > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > > > Subject: Re: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten > Wilson > Message-ID: > <5EC8B5055FCBD04E8197CAD3EA5A1FB04EB23185 at ITS-HCWNEM104.ds.vanderbilt.edu > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Thanks for posting, Henry. > > > Tonight, I happened upon a video promoting the new PBS series The Great American Read featuring the young adult author John Green (link here: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/a70ef29d-b06a-4f15-8a49-2d398b9e0444/the-great-gatsby-part-1-crash-course-english-literature-104/ ? ). While none of Percy?s novels made the top 100, watching the video, I had to smile on seeing The Last Gentleman atop a stack of books (screencap attached). I have no idea if this was Green?s idea or the producer?s, but it has struck me at times how Green, despite his YA label, is in many ways a worthy heir to Percy?s spirit, as he has explored many themes common to Percy throughout his novels, his protagonists often akin to Binx Bolling or Will Barrett. For those of you who may not be familiar with his work, his first novel (Looking For Alaska) examined a high school suicide with grief, hope, and search for meaning. Green wrote his sixth (arguably his most famous) novel The Fault In Our Stars after he in > terned for a year as a children?s hospital chaplain. And his latest, Turtles All The Way Down, is in some ways his most autobiographical, as he explores mental illness and depression and has been candid about his own struggles. Green's ability to finesse melancholy and humor have always reminded me of Percy, and his novels, like Percy?s, are never driven primarily by plot. Anyhow, when I saw The Last Gentleman perched next to him, it got me wondering if any other Percy fans have read him. If you haven?t, he?s worth a look. > > Gregory Plemmons > > ________________________________ > From: Percy-L [percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org ] on behalf of Marshall Smith [mhsmithjrlaw at gmail.com ] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 8:07 PM > To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion > Subject: Re: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson > > I have always marveled at the way Percy wrote about suicide philosophically and matter of factly at the same time. It?s obvious in his writing that he had a terrible familiarity with it but had also thought about the philosophical/moral/religious implications deeply for many years. > > Marshall > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 20, 2018, at 2:33 AM, Henry P. Mills >> wrote: > > Dear Percy-L: > > For the group's reading and reflection. Certainly the recent suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade reveal how millions can be affected by the suicides of but two of us. Percy himself once remarked how he was at the time the only one in multiple generations in his family lineage to live beyond 70 due repeated suicides in his family. > > ***Jessica Hooten Wilson is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at John Brown University. She is the author of three books, including Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky & the Search for Influence and Reading Walker Percy's Novels.*** > > All best, > Henry Mills > Percy-L Administrator > > > -------Living as an Ex-Suicide > by JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON> > JUNE 15, 2018 > > Opening paragraphs: > ?The only cure for depression is suicide.? Walker Percy was not joking when he penned this line. The author himself was a survivor of suicide?though he did not attempt it. His grandfather and father both shot themselves at home; his mother either intentionally or not drove off of a bridge and drowned; and the first American Percy, Charles Percy, tied a kettle to his neck and also drowned. > Unlike his ancestors, Walker Percy lived a full life and died of prostate cancer at 74 years old. Why did they die but he lived? Because Percy chose to be a survivor, to find out not only why his father took his own life, but, as he put it, ?to make damn sure it didn?t happen to [him].? This determination fueled his work. Percy wrote novel after novel trying to solve what Albert Camus called the only philosophical question, to be or not to be?. > http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/06/15/living-as-an-ex-suicide-walker-percy/ > > > > > > > > > * Percy-L Discussion Archives: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > > * Manage Your Membership: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > > > * Contact the Moderator: percy-l-owner (at) lists.ibiblio.org > > > * Visit The Walker Percy Project: http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy * Percy-L Discussion Archives: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > * Manage Your Membership: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > > * Contact the Moderator: percy-l-owner (at) lists.ibiblio.org > > * Visit The Walker Percy Project: http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: