Lewis A Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis A Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Gorgon’s Mask
The thesis of A Gorgon’s mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann’s Fiction depends upon three psychoanalytic concepts: Freud’s early work on the relationship between the infant and its mother and on the psychology of artistic creation, Annie Reich’s analysis of the grotesque-comic sublimation, and Edmund Bergler’s analysis of writer’s block. Mann’s crisis of sexual anxiety in late adolescence is presented as the defining moment for his entire artistic li…
A Gorgon's mask
Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist
Still Following Percy
Tom More
In his novels Love in Ruins (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971) and The Thanatos Syndrome (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987), Walker Percy traces efforts of Tom More, a Louisiana psychiatrist, as he combats much of theory and technique now in ascendant in American mental health establishment Tom narrates both novels, picturing his opponents becoming more farcical with each new grant proposal or program start-up. In both cases nov…
Following Walker Percy
John Updike's Novels
Conversations with Walker Percy
"Moviemaking in Percy's "Lancelot
In 1976,1 as he recalls the year before for Father John, Lancelot Lamar pictures a world dominated by moviemaking. His Louisiana estate, Belle Isle, had been invaded by his wife's friend's film company (25), to make a movie about some people who seek shelter in the great house during a hurricane, a young Cajun trapper, a black sharecropper, a white sharecropper, a Christlike hippy, a Klan type, a beautiful halfcaste but also half-wit swamp girl, …
Another Generation
Walker Percy's physicians and patients
A Band of Prophets
The Moviegoer and the Stoic Heritage
Old Fish Hawk
Mitchell F. Jayne's Old Fish Hawk (1970)' continues the traditional theme in white American literature that the men of the dark castes have a valuable wisdom to offer the sons of the white caste. These red and black men have been pictured as having necessarily retained a greater reverence for the natural and human world than have the victorious whites, whose material success has prompted them to measure all experience in terms of power and proper…
Rabbit Angstrom as a Religious Sufferer
Journal Article Rabbit Angstrom as a Religious Sufferer Get access LEWIS A. LAWSON LEWIS A. LAWSON LEWIS LAWSON (Ph D, Wisconsin) is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published essays on several modern American novelists whose works possess a religious dimension, including Flannery O'Connor, William Styron, Walker Percy, and Richard Wright Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
The Added Dimension
In such selections as The Search for Redemption, The Novelist as Prophet, An American Girl, and Flannery O'Connor's Clarity of Vision, ten critics examine the fiction of the modern American writer
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The Added Dimension
In such selections as The Search for Redemption, The Novelist as Prophet, An American Girl, and Flannery O'Connor's Clarity of Vision, ten critics examine the fiction of the modern American writer
Rabbit Angstrom as a Religious Sufferer
Journal Article Rabbit Angstrom as a Religious Sufferer Get access LEWIS A. LAWSON LEWIS A. LAWSON LEWIS LAWSON (Ph D, Wisconsin) is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published essays on several modern American novelists whose works possess a religious dimension, including Flannery O'Connor, William Styron, Walker Percy, and Richard Wright Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Old Fish Hawk
Mitchell F. Jayne's Old Fish Hawk (1970)' continues the traditional theme in white American literature that the men of the dark castes have a valuable wisdom to offer the sons of the white caste. These red and black men have been pictured as having necessarily retained a greater reverence for the natural and human world than have the victorious whites, whose material success has prompted them to measure all experience in terms of power and proper…
The Moviegoer and the Stoic Heritage
A Band of Prophets
Walker Percy's physicians and patients
Another Generation
John Updike's Novels
Conversations with Walker Percy
"Moviemaking in Percy's "Lancelot
In 1976,1 as he recalls the year before for Father John, Lancelot Lamar pictures a world dominated by moviemaking. His Louisiana estate, Belle Isle, had been invaded by his wife's friend's film company (25), to make a movie about some people who seek shelter in the great house during a hurricane, a young Cajun trapper, a black sharecropper, a white sharecropper, a Christlike hippy, a Klan type, a beautiful halfcaste but also half-wit swamp girl, …
Following Walker Percy
Tom More
In his novels Love in Ruins (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971) and The Thanatos Syndrome (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987), Walker Percy traces efforts of Tom More, a Louisiana psychiatrist, as he combats much of theory and technique now in ascendant in American mental health establishment Tom narrates both novels, picturing his opponents becoming more farcical with each new grant proposal or program start-up. In both cases nov…
Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist
Still Following Percy
A Gorgon's mask
A Gorgon’s Mask
The thesis of A Gorgon’s mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann’s Fiction depends upon three psychoanalytic concepts: Freud’s early work on the relationship between the infant and its mother and on the psychology of artistic creation, Annie Reich’s analysis of the grotesque-comic sublimation, and Edmund Bergler’s analysis of writer’s block. Mann’s crisis of sexual anxiety in late adolescence is presented as the defining moment for his entire artistic li…
Art (10 works) · History (7 works) · Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · American fiction (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works)