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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Moviegoer"”.
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Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
<p>The field of scholarship known as ecocriticism is growing rapidly. Members of the field must endeavor to define ecocritism’s goals and parameters to prevent fragmentation and lack of focus. While most professed ecocritics agree that increased awareness and respect for the environment must be of …
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"This Link between Narrative and Reality": Weighing the Ethics and Implications of Trauma in The Moviegoer
… 1961 publication, Walker Percy's seminal novel The Moviegoer has primarily received critical attention in the form of either biographical criticism or allegorical interpretation. Problematically, however, in seeking to reconcile the imaginative work of his fiction with Percy's philosophical and …
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From Country to Country Club: the Landscapes of Walker Percy
When Walker Percy emerged on the literary scene in 1961, the American landscape had begun to transform in new and dramatic ways. As more and more Americans moved from city centers to suburban developments, Percy found that, in more ways than one, the center would not hold. This American cultural …
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"Somewhere and not Anywhere": A Place-Conscious Study of Literature Set in the City of New Orleans
With this nontraditional thesis, I am proposing the plan and outline for a secondary-level English curriculum focused on teaching the operative role of New Orleans in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer to students living in …
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Spirit matter(s): post-dualistic representations of spirituality in fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
… Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, examines the ways in which these authors have presented spirituality in The Moviegoer, Song of Solomon, and Mama Day respectively. In these works, spirituality is a need for connection among humans in this world, rather than a notion that points to dualistic …