Walker Percy's the Moviegoer at fifty : new takes on an iconic American novel / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Mary A. McCay.
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2016.
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Table of 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” Reality: Screening The Moviegoer
- 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.
