Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Walker Percy"”.
-
Alternatives to alienation in the novels of Walker Percy
Each of Walter Percy's three novels and many of his philosophical essays explore the alternatives to alienation chosen by modern man. These alternatives reflect Soren Kierkegaard's three stages of existence, and hence illustrate the influence Kierkegaard had on Percy's writings. The options chosen …
-
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 …
-
Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation
… function of the symbol through the work of Walker Percy. In the first chapter, I provide the necessary background for undertaking this project. First, I situate Percy in his historical moment and review key events in his life that helped to shape his philosophy of communication. Second, I …
-
Spirit matter(s): post-dualistic representations of spirituality in fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
… Representations of Spirituality in Fiction by Walker 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 …
-
Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… authors - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Cormac McCarthy. In the three novels and one imaginative memoir considered in particular, these authors create their existentialist protagonists, who in their turn reflect the conditional existentialism of their creators. This …
-
Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… age. I discuss the work of Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, Annie Dillard, David Foster Wallace, and Christopher Beha.</p>
-
A regenerate science : paradigms for science and theology in recent American fiction.
… and rejects other aspects. Thirdly, I show how Walker Percy envisions the overlap between depression and the spiritual vice of acedia and seeks to guide to the reader towards new resources for recovery of the self. Fourthly, I contend that Cormac McCarthy's fiction and essays develop a …
-
Babel's Apology: Religious Nostalgia and Literary Engagement with the Postsecular Age
… then examining eschatologies in the work of Walker Percy, and finally, Don DeLillo’s portrayal of religious history as it might be applied to mass destruction and death. Each of these narratives illustrate, in their own way, the way these authors and their characters abandon theological …
-
Not Quite American, Not Quite European: Performing "Other" Claims to Exceptionality In Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
… diverse as William Faulkner, Camilo José Cela, Walker Percy, Pío Baroja, Eudora Welty, Carme Riera, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Ralph Ellison. As these writers, among others, wrestle with ideas of Spain and the South, they also engage questions of how national identity is confirmed and contested …
-
Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
… environment. To support this argument, I look to Walker Percy’s <em>The Moviegoer </em>and present Binx Bollings as an example of humanity’s reigning anthropocentric tendencies. Bollings’ pattern of observing his environment as a commodity to serve his needs prevents his being able to connect …
-
In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good
<p>This thesis explores ideas of everydayness, the mundane, and the repetitive emptiness of consumer culture. It looks at the malaise that plagues everyday life and examines several attempts throughout history to break from its grips which revolve around a search for a more ideal state. This …