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its adaptation of established fiction genres to Southern contexts. Mark Twain derived his episodic narrative structures and roguish heroes from the picaresque novel, and William Faulkner realized the decadent aristocrat, the imperiled heroine, and other character types of the Gothic novel as rural Southerners who were more contingent, more caught in the net of societal relations and history than the fantastical figures of the Gothic had been. Some of the region's poets, such as James Dickey, have shown even greater dexterity by adapting these sources in an altogether different literary form.

"With its rural settings and rustic characters, Dickey's poems suggest the influence of the genre of pastoral fiction, yet Dickey may have instead obtained these elements from pastoral poetry, which preceded its namesake in fiction."

"The Gothic genre emerged in England and Ireland in the 1700s and was later naturalized to the cultural landscape of the Northeastern US, as in the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, which Dickey had almost certainly read."

"When Dickey invokes one genre of poetry and, within the space of a few lines, abandons it for another genre of poetry, what can we infer from this gesture if not the poet's fascination with genre per se, as well as his discomfort with it?"

"What is the disturbed, and disturbing, speaker of Dickey's best poems if not a stock character of the Gothic novel, refracted through the speech and ethos of the South and conditioned by the structures of lyric poetry?"