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Deliverance (the novel)

The novel, Deliverance, was James Dickey's first. Written in 1970, Deliverance is a gripping adventure story, but also one of humiliation, murder, tragedy, and ultimately, a soul-searching study of one man's struggle with courage, morality, and ethics.

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

• PS3554. I32

Circulating Books

• Bloom, Harold (Ed.).  James Dickey. 1987.  Call Number: PS3554.I32 Z74 1987
• Brinkmeyer, Robert H. Remapping Southern literature: contemporary Southern writers and the West. 2000.  Call Number: PS261.B745 2000
• Calhoun, Richard James. James Dickey. 1983.  Call Number: PS3554.I32 Z59 1983
• Dickey, James. Deliverance [Sound recording]. 1978.  Call Number: PS3554.I32 Z71
• Hart, Henry. James Dickey: the world as a lie. 2000.  Call Number: PS3554.I32 Z695 2000

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms-(Keywords Anywhere)

• Deliverance
• Dickey, James
• Dickey, James – Criticism and Interpretation
• American Authors—Twentieth Century

Reference Materials

• American Writers – Call Number: REF PS 129 .A55 1991 Suppl.4

                  o   Pt. 1, pg. 174-94

• Contemporary Literary Criticism – Call Number: REF PN771 .C59

                  o   Vol. 1, pg. 73-4                

                  o   Vol. 2, pg. 116

                  o   Vol. 4, pg. 121-23

                  o   Vol. 7, pg. 81, 84-6

                  o   Vol. 10, pg. 139-40, 142-43

                  o   Vol. 15, pg. 176-77

                  o   Vol. 47, pg.  91, 93, 98-100

                  o   Vol. 109, pg. 243, 245, 257-63, 276-77, 279-80, 282-83, 285-86

• Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature – Call Number: REF PN56.4 .C9 1990, pg. 86-87
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction – Call Number: REF PN3321 .C75 1991

                  o   Vol. 2, pg. 915-21

• Magill’s Survey of American Literature – Call Number: REF PS21 .M34 2007

                  o   Vol. 2, Pg. 606-08

• Masterplots: – Call Number: REF PN44 .M33 1996

                  o   Vol. 3, Pg. 1635-1638

• Novels  for Students – Call Number: REF PN44 .N937

                  o   Vol. 9, Pg. 50-66

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature – Call Number: REF PS21 .E537 2004, Vol. 1, Pg. 366-72
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism – Call Number:  REF PN771 .G27

                  o   Vol. 151, pg. 98-222

Research Databases

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•  Academic Search Complete
• Literature Resources from Gale
• Net Library
• OmniFile Full Text Mega

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