Eudora Welty and Walker Percy - The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature (Paperback)

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism. The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson, Mississippi, and was very much a member of the community. Percy was a wanderer who finally settled in Covington, Louisiana, because it was, as he called it, a "noplace." The author also asserts that Percy somewhat envied Welty and her stability in Jackson, and that for him, place was such a nagging concern that it became a personal problem to him as homo viator.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	December 2003
Authors:	Marion Montgomery
Dimensions:	230 x 153 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-7864-1663-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-7864-1663-7
Barcode:	9780786416639

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