New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas (eBook)

“A writer of words, and nothing else”?

Rhian Barfoot, Kieron Smith (Herausgeber)

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2020
240 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-522-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a collection of essays examining the vast and varied output of Dylan Thomas. It is the first book to offer critical insights to the whole range of his output in verse, prose, drama and for screen.

Autor

Academic and general readership.

Inhalt

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 Smith205
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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Writing Wales in English
• Reihe/Serie: Writing Wales in English
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: “A • Barfoot • Dylan • else”? • Kieron • New • Nothing • of • on • Perspectives • Rhian • Smith • Theoretical • Thomas • Words • Writer
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-522-3 / 1786835223
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-522-2 / 9781786835222