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050 00 $aPS3566.E6912$bZ66 1996
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100 1 $aDupuy, Edward J.,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95060287
245 10 $aAutobiography in Walker Percy :$brepetition, recovery, and redemption /$cEdward J. Dupuy.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiii, 171 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSouthern literary studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tAutobiography, Repetition, and Percy --$g2.$tRepetition and Autos: The Unformulability of the Self --$g3.$tRepetition and Bios: Surviving Life in a Century of Gnosticism and Death --$g4.$tRepetition and Graphein: Metaphor and the Mystery of Language and Narrative --$tCoda: Autobiography, Repetition, and Percy.
520 $aIn this highly original study, Edward J. Dupuy looks not so much at a one-to-one correspondence between Walker Percy's life and his works but more at the broader relations among autobiography, philosophy, and language as evidenced in Percy's novels and essays. Although Percy never wrote what is commonly considered an autobiography, in both his fiction and nonfiction, as Dupuy shows, he repeatedly addressed some of the same issues that concern theorists of autobiography.
520 8 $aHis novels, in particular, exemplify the autobiographical act of repetitionthat is, the retrieval of foreclosed elements of the past in order to reveal present and future possibilities for the self. That movement is manifest in the characters' preoccupations and in the recurrence of certain elements drawn from Percy's own life.
520 8 $a. Dupuy begins by establishing the theoretical underpinnings upon which the rest of the book depends. He shows that like Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Percy struggled with the placement of self in time and that he came to understand repetition as an effort to redeem or recover time.
520 8 $aAn intelligent, often witty discussion of not only Walker Percy but also New Criticism, post-modern criticism, and autobiographical principles, Autobiography in Walker Percy is a work rich in both theory and textual analysis that will engage scholars and true aficionados of Percy.
600 10 $aPercy, Walker,$d1916-1990$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aAutobiographical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101043
651 0 $aSouthern States$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111638
650 0 $aRepetition in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112917
650 0 $aRedemption in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008467
650 0 $aSelf in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009300
650 0 $aAutobiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85010050
830 0 $aSouthern literary studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42022954
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3566.E6912$iZ66 1996