Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature

by Marion Montgomery

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786416637
• ISBN13: 9780786416639
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher