Lawson, Lewis A.

The added dimension; the art and mind of Flannery O'Connor by Melvin J Friedman( Book )
8 editions published between 1966 and 1989 in English and held by 1,520 libraries worldwide

Conversations with Walker Percy by Walker Percy( Book )
3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 951 libraries worldwide

Another generation : southern fiction since World War II by Lewis A Lawson( Book )
7 editions published between 1984 and 1985 in English and held by 885 libraries worldwide

Still following Percy by Lewis A Lawson( Book )
8 editions published between 1995 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 692 libraries worldwide
In Still Following Percy, a collection of interrelated essays, Lewis Lawson studies the Percy canon to speculate that an earlier and more fundamental shaping of Walker Percy's character and fictional imagination was his sense of the inadequacy of the relationship which he as an infant had with his mother and of her early death. Lawson argues that the sense of loss led to Percy's tendency to regression, to his need to create his own life narrative in fiction after psychoanalysis had been insufficient as a means of reconstruction, and to his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Lawson interprets Percy's conversion as a statement of the possibility of reconciliation through the transcendent truth.

Kierkegaard's presence in contemporary American life: essays from various disciplines by Lewis A Lawson( Book )
3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 473 libraries worldwide

Following Percy : essays on Walker Percy's work by Lewis A Lawson( Book )
6 editions published in 1988 in English and Undetermined and held by 432 libraries worldwide

More conversations with Walker Percy by Walker Percy( Book )
5 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 359 libraries worldwide
This collection of interviews supplements Conversations with Walker Percy and occasions an additional two dozen pleasurable encounters with Percy. Primarily from the last ten years of Percy's life, they show how his presence was stimulating thought in much of humanistic America, in literature, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and in cultural life in general. Although this acclaimed author of The Moviegoer, Lancelot, and Love in the Ruins never overcame his shyness with interviewers, he continued to grant interviews as long as his health permitted. This act of openness illustrates his humility before his ideas and his desire to help others understand them. Although the questions he was asked almost invariably became predictable, he always managed to add an anecdote, an illustration, a topical reference, that would breathe new life into the responses he was making. The interviews in this collection show him at the height when he knew that his illness would not allow him to write any more books, and that the only way to restate his ideas and offer a valediction to the large audience to whom he had always been kind, patient, and appreciative was to speak out. Percy despised the posture of many modern self-proclaimed intellectuals who delight in cloaking ideas in jargon and abstraction. He always tried to express himself clearly and as free of reservations as possible. These interviews reflect that clarity. With this book readers will welcome yet more close encounters with him.

A Gorgon's mask the mother in Thomas Mann's fiction by Lewis A Lawson( Book )
8 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 294 libraries worldwide
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 life. In the throes of that crisis he included a sketch of a female as Gorgon in a book that would not escape his mother's notice. But to defend himself.

Wheeler's last raid by Lewis A Lawson( Book )
2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 209 libraries worldwide

Walker Percy's feminine characters( Book )
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 180 libraries worldwide