James Dickey

Dickey, James - 1923–97, American poet and novelist, b. Atlanta. After serving in the air force during World War II, he attended Vanderbilt Univ., graduating in 1946. He was an English teacher and an advertising executive. Dickey's poetry has great energy. He made use of the ordinary in his verse, joining the natural and mechanical on such topics as war, nature, and machinery. His volumes Read More...

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The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1942-1969
by James Dickey, Gordon van Ness. 499 pgs.

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The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1942—1969

For Courteney, Gordon, and Ian —bright Passion, Striving for Height—

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Acknowledgments

Editorial Note

Briefings

Reconnaissance

Encounters

Index
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Drowning with Others: Poems
by James Dickey. 96 pgs.

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Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets ("James Dickey" begins on p. 3)
by T. W. Stanford III, Ernest Suarez, Amy Verner. 256 pgs.

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Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

James Dickey

Dave Smith

Charles Wright

Ellen Bryant Voigt

David Bottoms

T. R. Hummer

Yusef Komunyakaa

Betty Adcock

Rodney Jones

Jim Seay

Kate Daniels

Selected Bibliographies

Ernest Suarez
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James Dickey and the Narrative Mode of Transmission: The Sheep Child's Other Realm, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Joel B. Peckham Jr. 19 pgs.

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Spirit-Bird, Bowshot, Water-Snake, Corpses, Cosmic Love: Reshaping the Coleridge Legacy in Dickey's 'Deliverance,' in Papers on Language & Literature
by Martin Bidney. 17 pgs.

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Vietnam and the Southern Imagination (Chap. 10 "Vietnam in the South: Deliverance")
by Owen W. Gilman Jr. 206 pgs.

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A revealing look at how the new generation of southern writers links southern cultural heritage & the American experience in Vietnam.

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1: The Vietnam War in Southern Time

2: Vietnam and the Warrior South

3: In Which Country?

4: Vietnam and the Flight of Time

5: Regenerative Violence; or Grab Your Saber, Ray

6: Civil War Redux: Brotherhood or Fratricide?

7: Back to Alabama, Heart of Dixie

8: The Southern Poet's Vietnam

9: You Must Go Home Again, but What is Home?

10: Vietnam in the South: Deliverance

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Works Cited

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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis ("Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don't: Deliverance and the Hysterical Male Body" begins on p. 165)
by Sally Robinson. 271 pgs.

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White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society -- as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind -- Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis.

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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Criisis

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Acknowledgments

Marked Men

Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male Body

Chapter 1: Marking Men, Embodying America

Chapter 2: Pale Males, Dead Poets, and the Crisis in White Masculinity

Chapter 3: Traumas of Embodiment

Chapter 4: Masculinity as Emotional Constipation

Chapter 5: Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria

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Index
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook ("James Dickey (1923-)" begins on p. 136)
by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora. 630 pgs.

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..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Introduction

James Agee (1909-1955)

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A. R. Ammons (1926- )

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John Barth (1930- )

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Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)

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Doris Betts (1932- )

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John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)

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James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

Erskine Caldwell (1903- )

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Truman Capote (1924-1984)

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Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)

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James Dickey (1923- )

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Ralph Ellison (1914- )

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

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John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)

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Shelby Foote (1916- )

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Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )

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Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

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Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

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Shirley Ann Grau (1929- )

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Paul Green (1894-1981)

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Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

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Andrew Lytle (1902- )

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

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Walker Percy (1916- )

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] (1862-1910)

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Reynolds Price (1933- )

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John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

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Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

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Elizabeth Spencer (1921- )

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Jesse Stuart (1906-1984)

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William Styron (1925- )

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Allen Tate (1899-1979)

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Peter Taylor (1917- )

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Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

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Anne Tyler (1941- )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905- )

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Eudora Welty (1909- )

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Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983)

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Stark Young (1881-1963)

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Contributors
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Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature ("The Football Elegies of James Dickey and Randall Jarrell:The Football Elegies of James Dickey and Randall Jarrell" begins on p. 131)
by Michael Cocchiarale, Scott D. Emmert. 220 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sports and American Literature

Batters and Archetypes

"War May Hasten This Change of Values"

"Partway There"

"The Machine-Language of the Muscles"

White S(Ox) vs Indians

Basketball's Demands in Paul Beatty's the White Boy Shuffle Tracy Curtis

"Fairways of His Imagination": Golf and Social Status in F Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction a Fletcher Cole

Dualism and the Quest for Wholeness in Arna Bontemps's God Sends Sunday Lisa Abney

The Female Voice in American Sports Literature and the Quest for a Female Sporting Identity Susan J Bandy

"Monsters" and "Face Queens" in Harry Crews's Body Andrew J Price

Hypermasculinity and Sport in James Dickey's Deliverance Mark S Graybill

The Football Elegies of James Dickey and Randall Jarrell

Dancing with the Bulls

Fouling out the American Pastoral

"And Drive Them from the Temple"

"The Mob of Carefree Men and Boys"

"And That's the Ball Game!"

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 (“'An Obscene Posture That No One Could Help': Sodomy, Male Anxiety, and the 'Crisis of Homo/Heterosexual Definition' in James Dickey‘s Deliverance" begins on p. 171)
by Sabine Sielke. 241 pgs.

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Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to Deliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist accounts--Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape. She considers the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric has performed and finds that rape has been an insistent figure for a range of social, political, and economic issues.Sielke argues that the representation of rape has been a major force in the cultural construction of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and indeed national identity. At the same time, her acute analyses of both canonical and lesser-known texts explore the complex anxieties that motivate such constructions and their function within the wider cultural imagination. Provoked in part by contemporary feminist criticism, Reading Rape also challenges feminist positions on sexual violence by interrogating them as part of the history in which rape has been a convenient and conventional albeit troubling trope for other concerns and conflicts.This book teaches us what we talk about when we talk about rape. And what we're talking about is often something else entirely: power, money, social change, difference, and identity.

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Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790–1990

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Acknowledgments

Reading Rape

Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape

Chapter One: Seduced and Enslaved: Sexual Violence in Antebellum American Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse

Chapter Two: The Rise of the (black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; Or, “realist” Rape

Chapter Three: Rape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes

Chapter Four: Voicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape: Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power

Afterword: Challenging Readings of Rape

Notes

Works Cited and Consulted

Index
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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (epilogue "From Deliverance to Cyberspace :The Continuing Relevance of 'Hillbilly' in Contemporary America")
by Anthony Harkins. 324 pgs.

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In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from D. W. Griffith to hillbilly music to the Internet, Harkins illustrates how the image of the hillbilly has consistently served as both a marker of social derision and regional pride. He traces the corresponding changes in representations of the hillbilly from late-nineteenth century America, through the great Depression, the mass migrations of Southern Appalachians in the 1940s and 1950s, the War on Poverty in the mid 1960s, and to the present day. Harkins also argues that images of hillbillies have played a critical role in the construction of whiteness and modernity in twentieth century America. Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs, drawings, and film and television stills, this unique book stands as a testament to the enduring place of the hillbilly in the American imagination.

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Hill Billy

Introduction: Race, Class, Popular Culture, and “The Hillbilly”

Chapter One: Literary, Graphic, and Ideological Progenitors, 1700—1899

Chapter Two: The Emergence of “Hillbilly,” 1900–1920

Chapter Three: Country Music and the Rise of “Ezra K. Hillbilly” in Interwar America

Chapter Four: Hillbilly Cartoon Images in Depression-Era America

Chapter Five: Hollywood's Hillbilly in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Chapter Six: Television Representations, 1952–1971

Epilogue: The Continuing Relevance of “Hillbilly” in Contemporary America

Postscript

Notes

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Index: Non-Print Cultural Production
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After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Chap. 7. "Running the Risk: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee & Deliverance by James Dickey")
by Terry Otten. 236 pgs.

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Critical Essays in Modern Literature

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: A Romantic Enlightenment

3: Childhood's End

4: Civilization and Its Discontents

5: The Fall and After

6: The Fall in Fantasy

7: Running the Risk

8: Conclusion

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