Essays Tagged: "James Dickey"

The passing of the torch in the novel "Deliverance", by James Dickey

In the novel Deliverance, by James Dickey, the themes of man and his mind set are pondered upon many times. The theme 'the passin ...

(3 pages) 55 0 4.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Kudzu

In James Dickey's poem "Kudzu" we understand that fear and ignorance can make a situation worse than wh ...

(6 pages) 27 1 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Deliverance Essay

Deliverance (1998) The book Deliverance exposes a couple examples of uncivilized and wild thinking. James Dickey uses these examples in the book to make the typical suburbanite person be set aside fro ... xamples in the book to make the typical suburbanite person be set aside from the rest of the world. James Dickey has an ordinary bunch of guys change their views as they go through a horrific experien ...

(3 pages) 10 0 2.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Discuss The Thematic And Symbolic Importance Of Animals In The Works Of Theodore Roethke, James Dickey And Other Authors Studied

Discuss the thematic and symbolic importance of animals in the works of Theodore Roethke, James Dickey and other authors we studied.Theodore Roethke and James Dickey use animals and the them ... 57;. Roethke brings life and its connections clearly to the reader with his use of animal symbolism.James Dickey also used animals to connect us to nature. In Fence Wire, he uses the man-made image of ...

(2 pages) 1878 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Masculinity And Homosexuality On The Cahulawassee River (Deliverance)

Masculinity and Homosexuality on the Cahulawassee River By Phuong Nguyen HBHS Term report James Dickey's early seventies novel Deliverance focuses on four middle aged men on a river trip in ...

(3 pages) 5 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

To Be Remembered

turned inward (and wrote his best stuff), when manic he was all exuberance and colorful language.3. James Dickey -- best known as the author of "Deliverance" and "River Runs Through It," he also had a ...

(2 pages) 978 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

James Dickey

James DickeyJames Dickey was one of the premier writers in the latter half of the twentieth century. ... ey was at times criticized for his work, he still remains one of the great American writers. James Dickey was born on February 2 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia to his father Eugene Dickey, and mother ... February 2 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia to his father Eugene Dickey, and mother Maibelle Swift Dickey. James had an older brother named Eugene that died four years before he was born. On November 4 1948, ...

(9 pages) 15 0 3.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers