عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PS3566.E6912 S57 2011
PS3566
.
E6912
S57
2011
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1306601878
(Number (ISBN
1453216375
(Number (ISBN
9781306601870
(Number (ISBN
9781453216378
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Signposts in a Strange Land.
General Material Designation
[Book]
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Open Road Media,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Cover Page; Title Page; Table of Contents; One Life in the South; Why I Live Where I Live; New Orleans Mon Amour; The City of the Dead; Going Back to Georgia; Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise; Uncle Will; Uncle Will's House; A Better Louisiana; The American War; Red, White, and Blue-Gray; Stoicism in the South; A Southern View; The Southern Moderate; Bourbon; Two Science, Language, Literature; Is a Theory of Man Possible?; Naming and Being; The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?; Novel-Writing in an Apocalyptic Time.
Text of Note
A "Cranky Novelist" Reflects on the ChurchThe Failure and the Hope; A View of Abortion, with Something to Offend Everybody; Foreword to The New Catholics; If I Had Five Minutes with the Pope; An Unpublished Letter to the Times; Another Message in the Bottle; The Holiness of the Ordinary; Epilogue An Interview and a Self-interview; An Interview with Zoltán Abádí-Nagy; Questions They Never Asked Me; Bibliography and Notes; Biography; Copyright Page.
Text of Note
How to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and CatholicFrom Facts to Fiction; Physician as Novelist; Herman Melville; Diagnosing the Modern Malaise; Eudora Welty in Jackson; Foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces; Rediscovering A Canticle for Leibowitz; The Movie Magazine: A Low "Slick"; Accepting the National Book Award for The Moviegoer; Concerning Love in the Ruins; The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry; The Culture Critics; The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind; Three Morality and Religion; Culture, the Church, and Evangelization; Why Are You a Catholic?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
A captivating collection of writings on Southern life by one of the masters of American literaturePublished just after Walker Percy's death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South's most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy's celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIL
Stock Number
591438
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
International Standard Book Number
9781306601870
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Percy, Walker,1916-1990
Percy, Walker,1916-1990.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fiction-- Authorship.
Novelists, American-- 20th century, Interviews.
Civilization.
Fiction-- Authorship.
Novelists, American.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Southern States, Civilization.
Southern States.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
813/
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54
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PS3566
.
E6912
S57
2011
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Percy, Walker.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822170614.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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