Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Fri fragt over 499,-
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
Engelsk Paperback

Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence

Engelsk Paperback

371 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog
Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Jessica Hooten Wilson details the long career of Walker Percy. Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence demonstrates-through close reading of both writers'' works, examination of archival materials, and biographical criticism-not only how pervasive and inescapable Dostoevsky''s influence was but also how necessary it was to the distinctive strengths of Percy''s fiction.
 
 
From Dostoevsky, Percy learned how to captivate his non-Christian readership with fiction saturated by a Christian vision of reality. Not only was his method of imitation in line with this Christian faith but also the aesthetic mode and very content of his narratives centered on his knowledge of Christ. The influence of Dostoevsky on Percy, then, becomes significant as a modern case study for showing the illusion of artistic autonomy and long-held, Romantic assumptions about artistic originality. Ultimately, Wilson suggests, only by studying the good that came before can one translate it in a new voice for the here and now.
 



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9780814254387
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0814254381
Udg. Dato:
8 nov 2017
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Ohio State University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 nov 2017
Forfatter(e):
Finder produkter...
Kategori sammenhænge