Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature

As Renaissance scholar, textual critic, and poet J. V. Cunningham (1) settles deservedly into place in our literary history, his poems in the plain style continue to win attention and praise. One aspect of his poetry which deserves attention is his...

"I have never been anywhere but sick." Flannery O'Connor in a letter to Betty Hester, 28 June 1956 "It doesn't finally matter whether we get Faulkner right, for no one's salvation depends on it. But it matters absolutely whether we get O'Connor...

IN The Moviegoer (MG), The Last Gentleman (LG), Love in the Ruins (LR), and The Thanatos Syndrome (TS), Walker Percy uses the unlikely images of a dung beetle, bowel movements, the deaths of children, and even genocide to express the sacramental presence...