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| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: From Dust to Deliverance | p. 1 |
| Influence and Reputation Debates | |
| "Wild to Be Wreckage Forever": Dickey's Influence and Reputation | p. 13 |
| Writing One's Immortality: Dickey's Reputation as a Southern Writer | p. 25 |
| Forging Alliances: James Dickey James Dickey Newsletter | p. 35 |
| Artistic and Mythmaking Experiences | |
| "More in Two Worlds than One": The Imagination and Writing Process of James Dickey | p. 51 |
| Structures of Transcendence: Dickey's Male Self and the Other | p. 66 |
| Adherence to Propp: James Dickey's Deliverance in Novel and Film | p. 76 |
| James Dickey and His Reader: The Movement from Drowning to Deliverance | p. 88 |
| Religious Matters | |
| The Theme of the Visionary Poet | p. 107 |
| "Reeling and Staggering": The Ecstatic Moment in the Poetry of James Dickey | p. 120 |
| The Religious Impulse and Dickey's "The Owl King" | p. 129 |
| James Dickey's Pantheism: Nature and Philosophy in the Last Motion | p. 139 |
| Cultural and Societal Contexts | |
| The War Poetry of James Dickey | p. 151 |
| Mock Primitive: The Artful Ethnography of James Dickey | p. 162 |
| Nature and Gender in James Dickey's Deliverance: An Ecofeminist Reading | p. 177 |
| Gender Issues | |
| The Buggering Hillbilly and the Buddy Movie: Male Sexuality in Deliverance | p. 195 |
| Ed Gentry's "Man Crush": Idolatry, Power, and Love in James Dickey's Deliverance | p. 210 |
| Gender, Being, and Artifice in James Dickey's Puella | p. 228 |
| "How Willing to Let Anything Be Done": James Dickey's Feminist Praxis | p. 239 |
| Contributors | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 257 |
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