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Deliverance by James Dickey

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Deliverance Quotes
2,672 words, approx. 9 pages
Deliverance is a 1972 film about four suburban professional men from Atlanta, Georgia on a weekend canoe and camping trip into the dangerous American back-country. Directed by John Boorman . Written by James Dickey , based on his novel of the same name...


Author Biography

Name: James Dickey
Birth Date: February 2, 1923
Death Date: January 19, 1997
Place of Birth: Buckhead, Georgia, United States of America
Place of Death: Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, novelist

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Biography of James (Lafayette) Dickey
10824 words, approx. 36.1 pages
In what he calls a "snapshot" of James Dickey in The Writer's Voice (1973), George Garrett has written, "Legends, myths, fables and fabliaux, anecdotes, quotations from, hard and funny sayings, true and false, wheel and flock about him, a shrill invisibl...
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Biography of James Dickey
9094 words, approx. 30.3 pages
Glory came early in James Dickey's career: six years after his first collection appeared in Poets of Today VII (1960), he won the 1966 National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965); five years after that, his novel Deliverance (1970) and its movie v...
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Biography of James (Lafayette) Dickey
8348 words, approx. 27.8 pages
James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in order to live as fully as possible. Immersed in death encounters, he formulated a poetic vision dramatizing his heightened sense of renewal to experience, to life. At the same tim...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Deliverance Information
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Deliverance is a 1972 Warner Bros. motion picture drama directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and, in his film debut, Ned Beatty. The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American...


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The Washington Post
Deliverance
05/27/2001: 860 words, approx. 3 pages
GHOST SOLDIERS The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission By Hampton Sides Doubleday. 342 pp. $24.95 Early in 1945, as American troops landed on Luzon, 513 prisoners of war, mostly survivors of the infamous Bataan...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Special Deliverers
01/14/1996: 688 words, approx. 2 pages
ROD ALLEE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-14-1996 SPECIAL DELIVERERS By ROD ALLEE Date: 01-14-1996, Sunday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday At 9 o'clock Friday morning the radio in the West Milford post office work room is blasting a deejay's...
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Vibe.com
Cover Story: Mase - Deliverance
9/2/2004: 518 words, approx. 2 pages
Photographs by Erin Patrice O'BrienYou've probably heard the buzz about Mase's reentry album, Welcome Back. You've most likely grooved to the set-up single, "Welcome Back," and bopped to the club-shaker "Breathe, Stretch, Shake." But it's a good bet that during the five years he's been...
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Vibe.com
The Liberation of Bubba Sparxxx
3/10/2006: 1,563 words, approx. 5 pages
Currently, up 10 spots on the Hot 100 (31-21), Ms. New Booty, by the Georgia native, Bubba Sparxxx, is gaining unbelievable steam with an estimated break into the Top 10 in two more weeks. But while everyone who knew of the country slangin’ MC is...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Eugene M. Langen
5,185 words, approx. 17 pages
{In the following essay, Langen describes sex as a primal source of power that pervades James Dickey's novel Deliverance.
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Critical Essay by Ernest Suarez
3,944 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Suarez juxtaposes Dickey's novel with the film version of Deliverance.
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Critical Essay by Paul G. Italia
1,719 words, approx. 6 pages
Perhaps [the patterned brutality in Deliverance] is nothing more than a macabre symmetry, a grimly humorous instance of "poetic justice," in which each of the perverted primitives gets what he deserves where he deserves it. But there is something more; the neatly ironic balancing of sin and retribution, of crime and counter-crime, is transcended by the mystery formed between the civilized hunter and the primitive one. What results from this whirlwind weekend courtship with death is love. (p. 2...


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