New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas
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New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas: "A writer of words, and nothing else"?(Writing Wales In English)

New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas: "A writer of words, and nothing else"?(Writing Wales In English)


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Dylan Thomas's reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held `a beast, an angel, and a madman in him', interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to dubious mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate across culture and the arts: from poetry and letters, to popular music and Hollywood film. However, this wide and sometimes controversial renown has occasionally hindered serious analysis of his writing. Counterbalancing the often-misleading popular reputation, this book showcases eight new critical perspectives on Thomas's work. It is the first to provide in one volume a critical overview of the multifaceted range of his output, from the poetry, prose and correspondence to his work for wartime propaganda filmmaking, his late play for voices Under Milk Wood, and his reputation in letters and wider society. The whole proves that Thomas was much more than his own self-characterisation as a `writer of words, and nothing else'.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Used Notes on Contributors Introduction: `[A] writer of words, and nothing else', Kieron Smith and Rhian Barfoot Shibboleth: For Dylan Thomas, Tomos Owen The `Strange' Wales of Dylan Thomas's Short Stories, Tony Brown `Tawe pressed in upon him': Dylan Thomas, Modernity and the Rural-Urban Divide, Andrew Webb The comic voices of Dylan Thomas, M. Wynn Thomas `As long as he is all cucumber and hooves': Dylan Thomas's Comedy of the Unconscious, Rhian Barfoot `Thrown back on the cutting floor': Dylan Thomas and film, John Goodby `If We Are Gong to Call Peots Bda [...]': Kingsley Amis and Dylan Thomas', James Keery `[E]ruptions, farts, dampsquibs [and] barrelorgans': Administrating Dylan Thomas in his centenary year, Kieron Smith 205 Bibliography

About the Author :
Rhian Barfoot is a Research Fellow at CREW. Her current research interests include modernist and postmodernist poetics. Kieron Smith is an Honorary Research Fellow at CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), Swansea University.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781786835215
  • Publisher: University of Wales Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Writing Wales In English
  • ISBN-10: 1786835215
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: "A writer of words, and nothing else"?


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