ABSTRACT
Walker Percy’s one-word title, Lancelot, may seem a simple, bold stroke announcing a straightforward use of Arthurian myth; but those who persevere through his narrator’s shocking and vertiginous account of adultery and murderous revenge learn otherwise. The title is ironic, and so is Percy’s use of the material throughout. He employs the Arthuriad only to devalue it against standards established in his own existential philosophy of cognition.
