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.
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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mary A. McCay and Jennifer Levasseur 1
- Part I. Voices of InfluenceT he Unquiet Heart: St. Augustines 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 Moviegoers 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 Percys The Moviegoer and Gautreauxs The Missing / L. Lamar Nisly.