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Transcending the “Malaise”: Redemption, Grace, and Existentialism in Walker Percy’s Fiction

Hohman, Xiamara Elena
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272680647

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2010, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
Since the 1960 publication of his debut novel, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy’s work has been widely read and critically evaluated by scholars. Though much has been done with Percy’s work, none have examined how shifts in American Catholicism and the changes of the Second Vatican Council impacted the ways in which Percy wrote about religion and approached the problems of the modern world. In the following pages, I will detail the important movements in American Catholicism, the pertinent changes made to the practice of Catholicism through the Second Vatican Council, and the Existentialist philosophies of Kierkegaard, Buber, and Marcel in order to demonstrate the ways in which Percy’s characters Binx Bolling of The Moviegoer and Thomas More of Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World, transcend the “malaise” or “everydayness” that separates them from God and community.
Albino Carrillo, MFA (Advisor)
R. Alan Kimbrough, PhD (Committee Member)
Bro. Thomas Wendorf, S.M., PhD (Committee Member)
75 p.
American Literature; English literature; Philosophy; Religion; Religious Congregations; Religious History; Theology
Walker Percy; Vatican II; Second Vatican Council; Existentialism; Grace; Redemption; Malaise; Kierkegaard; Buber; Marcel; Mass; American Catholicism

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  • Hohman, X. E. (2010). Transcending the “Malaise”: Redemption, Grace, and Existentialism in Walker Percy’s Fiction [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272680647

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hohman, Xiamara. Transcending the “Malaise”: Redemption, Grace, and Existentialism in Walker Percy’s Fiction. 2010. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272680647.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hohman, Xiamara. "Transcending the “Malaise”: Redemption, Grace, and Existentialism in Walker Percy’s Fiction." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272680647

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