Deliverance by James Dickey | Resources

Deliverance For Further Study

J A. Bryant, Jr., Twentieth-Century Southern Literature, The University Press of Kentucky, 1997

One of the country's leading literary critics examines the background of Dickey's works. His poetry far outshines his fiction in this review

Richard J. Calhoun, editor, James Dickey: The Expansive Imagination, Everett/Edwards, Inc., 1973.

The essays collected by Calhoun in this book examine the poet and novelist as his style was still emerging and give insights into Dickey's reputation among his peers at the time of Deliverance.

Richard J. Calhoun and Robert W Hill, James Dickey,Twayne Publishers, 1983.

Calhoun and Hill, both professors of English at Clem-son, take a personal as well as scholarly approach to Dickey's career up to that point in time

James Dickey, Sorties: Journals and New Essays, Double-day and Company, 1971

This collection of miscellaneous pieces, published around the same time as the novel, contains ample...
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