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Author: Robert Kirschten Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 272
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A comprehensive collection of essays on this important American writer, containing both early reviews and a broad selection of more modern scholarship. Among the authors of reprinted articles and reviews are James Wright, Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Paul Carroll, and Frederic Jameson. In addition to a substantial introduction by editor Kirschten, there are also five original essays commissioned specifically for this volume. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Robert Kirschten Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
A comprehensive collection of essays on this important American writer, containing both early reviews and a broad selection of more modern scholarship. Among the authors of reprinted articles and reviews are James Wright, Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Paul Carroll, and Frederic Jameson. In addition to a substantial introduction by editor Kirschten, there are also five original essays commissioned specifically for this volume. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: James Dickey Publisher: Delta ISBN: 0307483703 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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“You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance. Praise for Deliverance “Once read, never forgotten.”—Newport News Daily Press “A tour de force . . . How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”—The New Republic “Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”—Southern Review “A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”—The Nation “[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”—Time “A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”—Asheville Citizen-Times "A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."—New York Times Book Review "A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."—The New Yorker
Author: Robert Kirschten Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781570031656 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 294
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"Struggling for Wings" is a diverse collection of reviews, interviews, and essays on the controversial career of James Dickey, a writer whose work has engendered commentary ranging from high praise to scathing personal attack. Never before collected, the materials in this volume record America's critical response to Dickey, beginning in the early 1960s when he first began publishing poetry and continuing through the mid-1990s, with comprehensive overviews of Dickey's entire canon.
Author: Eileen Glancy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 128
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"The introductory essay Miss Glancy has written on James Dickey is a model of insight, care, and intelligence¿an essay which delineates the work (critical and poetical) of the subject while also providing just enough biographical information. However, it is the bibliography that is important to the reference librarian. . . . The work is quite complete and should make the jobs of the researchers and librarians considerably easier."--ARBA
Author: William B. Thesing Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781570038037 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 278
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Original inroads to understanding the life and works of the celebrated novelist and poet In The Way We Read James Dickey editors William B. Thesing and Theda Wrede have assembled an outstanding collection of current critical responses to the works of the acclaimed novelist, poet, and teacher, including essays by Dickey's former colleagues at the University of South Carolina and a piece by his most famous student, novelist Pat Conroy. The volume breaks new ground in the application of innovative critical approaches and restores Dickey to his rightful place in the literary canon as a remarkable writer who crafted some of the best poetry and fiction of the twentieth century. A decade after Dickey's death and thirty-five years after the release of the film version of his famous novel Deliverance, Dickey remains a controversial figure in the American literary landscape. He was an intellectual maverick who was often ahead of his time, and yet he responded intensely, almost obsessively, to his own changing times. Thesing and Wrede argue that, although he appeared to conform to poetic conventions, his writing was a visionary reinterpretation and extension of preexisting traditions. This tension between a poet's intellectual precursors and the radical innovation of his work is the inspiration behind the fresh approaches taken by the contributors in this volume, just as it energized Dickey's own endeavors. The essays offer original insights through emerging scholarly perspectives as well as through established methods of critique. The contributors address a range of themes in Dickey's works, including gender, religion, humanity's relationship to nature, and the writer's cultural context. This landmark reappraisal of Dickey's legacy offers readers a coherent forum that addresses why his writings remain relevant today, thus restoring and revaluing the rising significance of Dickey's literary achievement for twenty-first-century audiences. William B. Thesing, a distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina, was a colleague of James Dickey's for two decades. From 2003 to 2008 Thesing served as editor of the James Dickey Newsletter. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including The London Muse, winner of the 1980 SAMLA Studies Book Award.
Author: Gordon Van Ness Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 9781879751279 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 162
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Surveys the scholarship and criticism surrounding Dickey's work, detailing the poet's intent as well as the critical reception. In their analysis of James Dickey's work, critics have often assumed too narrow a focus, concerning themselves with a reputation as a man larger than life, who hunts rattlesnakes with a blowgun and who shoots white-water rapids.Such critics do not see the forest at all; they mistake the tree for the forest. In the more than thirty years since Dickey's first volume of poetry appeared, he has endeavoured to push himself and language into new realms. What he has said, and how he has said it, have evolved; it is what Dickey terms the "motion" of his poetry. And it has generated both solid scholarship and superficial criticism. Van Ness' study surveys the scholarship and criticism surrounding Dickey's work in a chronological and methodological manner. Its intent is to synthesise and assess and to suggest areas where further study remains. As it measures the motion, Outbelieving Existence details Dickey's intent as well as the critical reception. No other book has done this.
Author: Robert Kirschten
Author: Robert Kirschten
Author: Richard James Calhoun
Author: James Dickey
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: Robert Kirschten
Author: Eileen Glancy
Author: William B. Thesing
Author: Richard J. Calhoun (Ed)
Author: James Dickey
Author: Gordon Van Ness