Percyscapes : the fugue state in twentieth-century southern fiction
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Percyscapes : the fugue state in twentieth-century southern fiction
(Southern literary studies)
Louisiana State University Press, c1999
- :cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-158) and index
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An exploration of the work of Walker Percy, focusing on the fugue state - a form of hysterical dissociation marked by temporary amnesia and physical wandering. Rudnicki argues that this expresses the existential conflict of wanting both to integrate with the world and escape it.
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