Eudora Welty and Walker Percy : the concept of home in their lives and literature / Marion Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Marion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Knowledge and learning--Manners and customs.

Welty, Eudora.

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.

Manners and customs.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Knowledge and learning--Manners and customs.

Percy, Walker.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Southern States.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Home in literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

v, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2004]

Summary:

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism. The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson, Mississippi, and was very much a member of the community. Percy was a wanderer who finally settled in Covington, Louisiana, because it was, as he called it, a "noplace." The author also asserts that Percy somewhat envied Welty and her stability in Jackson, and that for him, place was such a nagging concern that it became a personal problem to him as homo viator.

Contents:

Part I The Swift Bird of Memory, the Breadboard of Art: Reflections on Eudora Welty and Her Storytelling 17

Part II Walker Percy's Quest for the Word Within the Word: A Preliminary 91.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.

ISBN:

0786416637

OCLC:

53075825