Date of Award
1983
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
Abstract
In the brief explanatory preface of "The Zodiac" Dickey says: "Its twelve sections are the story of a drunken and perhaps dying Dutch poet who returns to his home in Amsterdam after years of travel and tries desperately to relate himself, by means of stars, to the universe." The question immediately arises as to how a Dutch poet, and particularly one living in the Old World city of Amsterdam, relates to an American myth. What, in other words, does a Dutchman returning to his home in Holland nave to do with the New World?
Recommended Citation
Van Ness, Arthur Gordon, "An American myth : James Dickey's "The Zodiac"" (1983). Master's Theses. 1225.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/1225