Walker Percy's voices
By: Michael Kobre.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Percy, Walker, 1916- -- Criticism and interpretation; Bakhtin, M. M. 1895-1975; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism; Interpersonal relations in literature; Dialectic in literature
Description: "In this multifaceted work, Michael Kobre analyzes Walker Percy's major fiction works - The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome - in terms of the Russian philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin's critical theory. Kobre begins with an introduction to Percy's view of language and consciousness and a clear, accessible explanation of Bakhtin's ideas.

His subsequent discussion of the novels connects each work in turn with Percy's advancing career and explores the deepening conflict in Percy's fiction between his desire to express his own religious and moral beliefs and his commitment to the essential freedom of his art - the play of many voices in his narratives."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-230) and index.