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Walker Percy's the Moviegoer at fifty : new takes on an iconic American novel / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Mary A. McCay ; foreword by Jay Tolson.

Other author/creatorLevasseur, Jennifer, 1977- editor.
Other author/creatorMcCay, Mary A., editor.
Other author/creatorTolson, Jay, writer of foreword.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice ©2016
Descriptionxxvii, 171 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction / Mary A. McCay and Jennifer Levasseur 1 Part I. Voices of Influence The Unquiet Heart: St. Augustine’s Influence on Walker Percy / H. Collin Messer -- Spinning along the Gulf Coast in the Company of Cervantes / Montserrat Ginés -- From the Underground Man to Alyosha Karamazov: The Trajectory of Binx Bolling in The Moviegoer / Jessica Hooten Wilson -- The Everyday Lightness of Binx: Being and Time in The Moviegoer / Brian Jobe Part II. “Certifying”�(آزمفىٌٰ”:�كمْمىَهَ�وم�مُهمُ Binx at the Movies, Percy at Play: The Moviegoer’s Cinematic References Revisited / Jonathan Potter and Read Mercer Schuchardt -- Binx Bolling as Producer, Director, Actor / Mary A. McCay -- The (Fictional) Character Projected upon the Page: The Moviegoer and the Semiotics of the Celebrity Self / Matthew Luter -- Following William Holden on Twitter: Social Media and the Search / Dorian Speed Part III. The Moviegoer as Roadmap for the Search The Need for the Disabled Body in The Moviegoer / Brent Walter Cline and Robert Bolton -- Tramps Like Us: Bruce Springsteen, Binx Bolling, and the Search for Faith and Meaning / Michael Kobre -- Journeying through Percy’s The Moviegoer and Gautreaux’s The Missing / L. Lamar Nisly.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN0807162736 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780807162736 (cloth ; alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3566 .E6912 Z977 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold