{"product_id":"walker-percy-fyodor-dostoevsky-and-jessica-hooten-wilson-9780814254387","title":"Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence","description":"Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Jessica Hooten Wilson details the long career of Walker Percy. \u003ci\u003eWalker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates-through close reading of both writers' works, examination of archival materials, and biographical criticism-not only how pervasive and inescapable Dostoevsky's influence was but also how necessary it was to the distinctive strengths of Percy's fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From Dostoevsky, Percy learned how to captivate his non-Christian readership with fiction saturated by a Christian vision of reality. Not only was his method of imitation in line with this Christian faith but also the aesthetic mode and very content of his narratives centered on his knowledge of Christ. The influence of Dostoevsky on Percy, then, becomes significant as a modern case study for showing the illusion of artistic autonomy and long-held, Romantic assumptions about artistic originality. Ultimately, Wilson suggests, only by studying the good that came before can one translate it in a new voice for the here and now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Hooten Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814254381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814254387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Jessica Hooten Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990394372351,"sku":"9780814254387","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60e73555-c09e-4eb8-9254-f3193cca1807.jpg?v=1683304424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walker-percy-fyodor-dostoevsky-and-jessica-hooten-wilson-9780814254387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}