Author: Richard James CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
James Dickey
Author: Richard James CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
James Dickey
Author: Richard J. CalhounJames Dickey: the Expansive Imagination; a Collection of Criticial Essays. Edited by Richard J. Calhoun
Author: Richard James Calhoun (ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
James Dickey: the Expansive Imagination
Author: Richard James CalhounPublisher: De Land, Fla : Everett/Edwards
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of James Dickey.
James Dickey
Author: Richard J. Calhoun (Ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dickey, James
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
American and British Poetry
Author: Harriet Semmes AlexanderPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Imagination as Glory
Author: Bruce WeiglPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252011016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Weigl and Hummer have assembled here the most representative writings on Dickey and his work. The essays assess Dickey's achievement, pinpoint his failures and successes, illuminate Dickey's philosophy and aesthetics, and suggest the direction his poetry might take in future. The volume includes two essays by Dickey himself, one of which provides the book's title. Other contributors include poets and critics such as Howard Nemerov, Robert Duncan, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Lieberman, and Dave Smith. ISBN 0-252-01101-5 : $17.50.
Reading, Learning, Teaching James Dickey
Author: William B. ThesingPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820481777
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
William B. Thesing, James Dickey's colleague at the University of South Carolina for twenty years, has a unique and complex perspective on the life and writing of this great twentieth-century American author. Dickey offers readers, students, and teachers a variety of energized and imaginative texts, and Thesing provides original and perceptive readings of his life and his novels as well as his most popular poems about animals in nature, man in nature, social and sexual relationships, women, and civilian and wartime death. This is the only introductory teaching/study guide available on Dickey's poems and novels. Chapters are conveniently organized around essential thematic categories. The author employs various modern critical approaches - from feminist criticism to deconstruction - to the poems and novels. The book will be useful in college or high school courses on Southern literature, American poetry, and twentieth-century literature.
The Way We Read James Dickey
Author: William B. ThesingPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570038037
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
James Dickey
Author: Henry HartPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146682865X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
Book Description
A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks. Letters, anecdotes, tall tales and true ones, as well as the reluctant but finally candid cooperation of Dickey himself animate Hart's narration of a remarkable life. Readers of Dickey's National Book Award-winning poetry, his bestselling novel Deliverance, and anyone who witnessed his electrifying readings of his work will savor this book.