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Instinct for Survival: Essays

Instinct for Survival: Essays

Hoy, Pat C., II

Paperback

Biographies General20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0820339377
ISBN13: 9780820339375
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Apr 1 2012
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The essays in Instinct for Survival explore fundamental ideas about the ties of community, the trials and tribulations of family life, the sacrif cial nature of public service, the yearnings of the spirit, and the tangled joys of teaching. From his childhood in Arkansas to his career as both Army off cer and professor of literature, Pat Hoy uses his rich experiences as departure points in his quest for meaning.

In Mosaics of Southern Masculinity, Hoy recalls his absent father and develops a multilayered inquiry into male identity that includes memories of his own sons and ref ections on the ways other southern writers have grappled with father-son relationships. The Spirit Was Willing and So Was the Flesh stems from Hoy's attempts to come to terms with the feminine aspects of his own personality and with the apparent dichotomy between the spiritual and the physical. Hoy toys with his own personal poetics and philosophy of writing in Conversing with Images, where he articulates the unspoken power of images. A fascination with life's mysteries informs these essays, which together create a transcendent and marvelous mosaic of life.

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