Reviewed by Leslie Marsh Jessica Hooten Wilson’s stated ambition is no less than “to revitalize influence studies, especially as they relate to our religious assumptions about aesthetics.” On current form, she may well be the one to achieve this. Hooten Wilson’s two books are dealt with in tandem not only because they have appeared in […]
March Reads of the Month: “Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence” and “Reading Walker Percy’s Novels,” by Jessica Hooten Wilson
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Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jessica Hooten Wilson
June 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
AM: You’ve written three books in quick succession that should appeal to readers of Southern Literary Review. The first involves Flannery O’Connor, and the second and third, Walker Percy. I’d like to start by asking about the second book, Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence, because I’m also interested in notions of influence. Read […]