Thesing (English, U. of South Carolina), a colleague of American author James Dickey, presents a study guide for high school and college teachers on his poems and novels. Organized by themes,
chapters critically consider his poems about animals in nature, man and nature, social and sexual relationships, facing death in civilian life and wartime conflict, and women, as well as
Deliverance as a novel and film, and To the White Sea, and Dickey as a reader and teacher. In addition, an introductory chapter describes his life and works, and major themes and techniques.
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