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Percyscapes : The Fugue State in Twentieth-century Southern Fiction Southern Literary Studies
author
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Rudnicki, Robert W.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807123447
print isbn13
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9780807123447
ebook isbn13
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9780585303710
language
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English
subject
American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Percy, Walker,--1916- --Knowledge--Psychology, Fugue (Psychology) in literature, Southern States--In literature, Semiotics and literature, Mem
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PS261.R693 1999eb
ddc
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813/.509353
subject
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American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Percy, Walker,--1916- --Knowledge--Psychology, Fugue (Psychology) in literature, Southern States--In literature, Semiotics and literature, Mem
Percyscapes
Page ii
Southern Literary Studies
Fred Hobson, Editor
Page v
Percyscapes
The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction
Robert W. Rudnicki
Page vi
Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press
Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan Typeface: Sabon Typesetter: Coghill Composition Printer and binder: Edward Brothers, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rudnicki, Robert W., 1968 Percyscapes: the fugue state in twentieth-century southern fiction/Robert W. Rudnicki. p. cm.(Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-2344-7 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. American fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2 American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Percy, Walker, 1916 KnowledgePsychology. 4. Fugue (Psychology) in literature. 5. Southern StatesIn literature. 6. Semiotics and literature. 7. Memory in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS261.R693 1999 813'.509353dc21 98-44082 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanance and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Page vii
For Carrie, Mom, and Dad
Page ix
The answer is in the back of the book but the page is gone. Robert Penn Warren, "The Ballad of Billie Potts"
Suppose a man is a castaway on an island. He is, moreover, a special sort of castaway. He has lost his memory in the shipwreck and has no recollection of where he came from or who he is. Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle
[I]n the grip of desperate dreaminess even the most trivial of human connections can bear a witness, and sometimes actually improve a life that's stranded. Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
[C]onsciousness is in general a highly fugitive state. Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psycho-analysis
Page xi
Contents
Preface
xiii
Abbreviations
xix
I Fugue and the Modern Literary Mind
1
II Percy's Signs of the Times
36
III The Unsignified Self: Faulkner, McCullers, Warren, Ellison
76
IV Bearers of Messages: Ford and McCarthy
123
Bibliography
149
Index
159
Page xiii
Preface
I am a latecomer to the writing of Walker Percy. I was first introduced to his work by reading Lost in the Cosmos rather than The Moviegoer. For some time I had been interested in language theory and literary linguistics and had, by coincidence, also been reading a fair amount of fiction by writers of the twentieth-century South. Yet I had somehow not read one word of Percy. Because of Percy's interest in semiotics, a professor suggested that Lost in the Cosmos might provide an interesting connection between my studies in rhetorical theory and southern literature. He was right, but the reading did much more than that. For a young student whose graduate studies had induced something just short of hysteria, Will Barrett's confused wanderings and delusions of "ravenous particles" that cloud his vision were enough to pull me completely into Percy's world.
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