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.
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.
Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
200Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
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ISBN-13: | 9780814254387 |
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Publisher: | Ohio State University Press |
Publication date: | 11/08/2017 |
Series: | Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 200 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d) |