Fight and Flight (eBook)

Essays on Ron Berry

Georgia Burdett, Sarah Morse (Herausgeber)

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2020
224 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-530-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Ron Berry is one of the most brilliant and cantankerous of Welsh writers. Radical and earthy, he was a collier, carpenter, navvy, footballer, and unorthodox environmentalist. This volume, the first collection of essays on Berry, is a timely response to his forthcoming centenary.

Inhalt

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of abbreviations
Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back An Introduction
Barbara Prys-Williams, History is what you live: Ron Berry's rumination on his conflicted life and times
Tony Brown, A Man’s World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry
John Perrott Jenkins, Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970)
Daryl Leeworthy, The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry’s south-Walian Imagination
Georgia Burdett, ‘The Inadequates’: Ron Berry and Disability
Sarah Morse, ‘Green always comes back’: Ron Berry’s ecocentric writing
Tomos Owen, ‘Land of my Feathers’: Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the Wing
John Pikoulis, ‘Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries’
Afterword
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Writing Wales in English
• Reihe/Serie: Writing Wales in English
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Berry • Burdett • Essays • Fight • Flight • Georgia • Morse • on • Ron • Sarah
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-530-4 / 1786835304
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-530-7 / 9781786835307