{"product_id":"the-art-of-walker-percy-stratagems-for-being-9780807124550","title":"The Art of Walker Percy: Stratagems for Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe writings of Walker Percy, as Panthea Broughton notes in her introduction, are at once both accessible and inaccessible. Because they tempt readers to identify with characters and recognize ideas, they have gained a large and enthusiastic following. But because they are subtle and complicated, they defy attempts to reduce them to transparencies. Indeed, Percy's fiction and nonfiction have a curious, baffling quality that eludes all but the most scrupulously thoughtful and sensitive readers. Through his close alignment with European novelists and philosophers, this native of Alabama has given to American fiction a classic tone that is lacking in the work of such twentieth-century writers as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Walker Percy \u003c\/i\u003eBroughton has brought together essays from fifteen scholars. Writing from a conviction of the centrality and worth of Walker Percy's work, as well as from the idea that fresh criticism is of value not only to readers but to living authors as well, the essayists present diverse approaches to understanding his art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCleanth Brooks, in his essay, compares Percy with Eric Voegelin and notes the similarity of their respective approaches to the moral problems of modern man. Martin Luschei, in an examination of the technique of \u003ci\u003eThe Moviegoer\u003c\/i\u003e, shows how Percy presents his fictional world through the use of filmic art. William Poteat's critique of \u003ci\u003eThe Message in the Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e deals with Percy's original contribution to the philosophy of language. Ted Spivey offers a structuralist analysis of Percy's work and suggests that in \u003ci\u003eLancelot \u003c\/i\u003ePercy's quest takes a new direction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStill other contributors approach Percy through more traditional rubrics, such as the South, Kierkegaard's stages, dualism, and theology, in new and revelatory ways. Written specifically for this new collection, their essays present the reader with a sense of how many appropriate \"stratagems\" there are for seeing the meaning in Percy. As they bring his work into focus, therefore, they assist Walker Percy in his avowed strategy of helping us see the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Panthea Reid Broughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.62h x 6.24w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807124550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePanthea Reid Broughton taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Louisiana State University. She has published extensively in literary quarterlies and has reviewed for \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review World, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40465507025011,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f4347e5c-8c81-4b7f-84bc-d7ef9b507b58.jpg?v=1664026221","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-art-of-walker-percy-stratagems-for-being-9780807124550","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}