A Political Companion to Walker Percy by Peter Augustine Lawler & Brian A. Smith

Author:Peter Augustine Lawler & Brian A. Smith [Lawler, Peter Augustine & Smith, Brian A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General, Literary Criticism, American
ISBN: 9780813147420
Google: o4IEoQEACAAJ
Goodreads: 21922486
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-06-16T12:15:34+00:00

Notes

1. Walker Percy, “Herman Melville,” in Signposts in a Strange Land, ed. Patrick Samway, S.J. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991), 199.

2. Like Hamlet, Lance is haunted by the ghost of his father and seeks to avenge a cuckolding, but he must wait until he is absolutely certain. Lance's certainty comes via watching a film, Hamlet's via watching a play.

3. Jay Tolson, Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (Simon and Schuster, 1992), 343.

4. Percy did express qualified admiration for a sort of modern Christian individualism, that exemplified by Kierkegaard: “Maybe his extreme individualism, inwardness, subjectivity, was justified by the blandness and overcorporate nature of Christendom” in the early nineteenth century. Yet Percy simultaneously identified this individualism as Kierkegaard's weakest point. Percy sought to avoid it himself in part by cultivating the “consciously Catholic attitude toward” or view of “nature” as “sacramental” exemplified by Thomas Aquinas and Gerard Manley Hopkins. See Conversations with Walker Percy, ed. Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. Kramer (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985), 119, 124.

5. Robin Feuer Miller, “Dostoevsky and the Tale of Terror,” in The Russian Novel from Pushkin to Pasternak, ed. John Garrard (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983), 103–21.

6. Poe's “The Purloined Letter” is referenced by Lance on page 101 of Lancelot (New York: Picador, 1999), which will hereafter be cited parenthetically in the text. For Dostoyevsky's reading of Poe, see Vladimir Astrov, “Dostoievsky on Edgar Allan Poe,” American Literature 14 (1942): 70–74; and Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986), 74–75. For assessments of Lancelot that briefly note the novel's connection to Poe, see Lewis Lawson, “The Fall of the House of Lamar,” in The Art of Walker Percy: Stratagems for Being, ed. Panthea R. Broughton (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), 219–44; and Patrick Samway, “Another Case of the Purloined Letter (in Walker Percy's Lancelot),” New Orleans Review 16, no. 4 (1989): 37–44.

7. Tolson, Pilgrim in the Ruins, 183.

8. Quoted in ibid., 291. Lewis Lawson observes that Cheney's review “founded Percy criticism” by pointing out The Moviegoer's indebtedness to Dostoyevsky and Camus insofar as it featured “a narrator-hero who reveals himself to be a villain.” See “From Tolstoy to Dostoyevsky in The Moviegoer,” Mississippi Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2003): 413.

9. Carol A. Flath, “Fear of Faith: The Hidden Religious Message of Notes from Underground,” Slavic and East European Journal 37, no. 4 (1993): 510.

10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew (New York: Penguin/Signet, 2004), 87. Quotations from this work will hereafter be cited parenthetically in the text.

11. Frank, Dostoevsky, 314.

12. Ibid., 333, 345.

13. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Philosophy of Composition,” in The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York: Norton, 2004), 680. Selected Writings is hereafter cited parenthetically in the text.

14. Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, trans. Caryl Emerson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).

15. Rene Fortin, “Responsive Form: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and the Confessional Tradition,” Providence 3, no.

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