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Walking Percy's Tightrope : From Alienation To Affirmation, Karen Y. Carter
Walking Percy's Tightrope : From Alienation To Affirmation, Karen Y. Carter
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Walker Percy's Binx Bolling, of The Moviegoer, and Will Barrett, of The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming, are two Southern existential seekers who move from alienation and despair to create lives of meaningful commitment with the promise of fulfillment. Because of their similarities, we can trace a development in Percy's fiction which parallels the questor's development. These three books move from a preoccupation with death-in-life to a discovery of self and on to individual and cultural rebirth. Thus, The Moviegoer (1960) is about alienation and despair; The Last Gentleman (1966) is about the possibility of human relationships, …
Tristram Shandy And The Discursive Self, Susan Denman Breeden
Tristram Shandy And The Discursive Self, Susan Denman Breeden
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