Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence Jessica Hooten Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Jessica Hooten, author.

Series:

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Influence.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

Fiction--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Fiction.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Contents:

Failed imitation in The Charterhouse and The Gramercy winner

Faithful re-membering in The Moviegoer

Modeling a holy fool in The Last gentleman

Borrowed critiques in Love in the ruins

"Outdostoevskying Dostoevsky" in Lancelot

Echoed prophecies in The Second coming and The Thanatos Syndrome

Conclusion

Imitation versus anxiety: a Christian's response to Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of influence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8142-7579-6

OCLC:

1007134937