{"product_id":"walker-percy-9780820337937","title":"Walker Percy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWalker Percy: Books of Revelations\u003c\/i\u003e, Gary M. Ciuba examines how Percy's apocalyptic vision inspires the structure, themes, and strategies of his fiction. This book explores the unity of the southern novelist's fiction by focusing on its religious and artistic design--one of the first studies to approach Percy's work from this perspective. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCiuba considers Percy's six published novels--\u003ci\u003eThe Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e--and also offers the first extended critical analysis of his unpublished work \"The Gramercy Winner.\" Although the novels are often seen as increasingly satiric jeremiads about the possible doom of America, Ciuba argues that Percy's fiction is principally shaped by a demythologized and partially realized form of eschatology. This apocalyptic vision has less to do with the end of the external world than with the demise of the protagonists' internal worldviews. According to Ciuba, Percy does more than offer direly comic warnings about the end of the world; he shows how the world actually ends and then may begin again in the everyday lives and extraordinary loves of his astonished seers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary M. Ciuba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820337937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGARY M. CIUBA is a professor of English at Kent State University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003eDesire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the C. Hugh Holman Award in 2008 for best work in southern literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195953786995,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_10492bc5-20d7-4333-8c71-987651599cbd.jpg?v=1655992795","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/walker-percy-9780820337937","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}