A Guide to Welsh Literature: Writing in English - Couverture souple

 
9780708316795: A Guide to Welsh Literature: Writing in English
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0708316794 ISBN 13 : 9780708316795
Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2003

Synopsis

Although it is often thought that English language writing from Wales dates only from the twentieth century, it has an older tradition than many other national literatures. Welsh Writing in English is the first authoritative critical survey of this body of writing in its entirety, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The work of leading scholars, critics and writers in the field, it explores the many different and complex ways in which Wales has been written into existence, considering in detail writers from Henry Vaughan and John Dyer to Gillian Clarke and Christopher Meredith. Opening with a broad survey of the historical background that helped give the Anglophone literature of Wales its distinctive characteristics, Welsh Writing in English offers new readings of familiar, major writers (Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, Raymond Williams, Emyr Humphreys), setting them in the context of their times and their contemporaries. It also discusses the industrial fictions of Wales, as well as reconsidering significant neglected figures, from Rhys Davies, Lynette Roberts and Geraint Goodwin to Brenda Chamberlain and John Ormond. Welsh Writing in English is a pioneering re-evaluation of a literature that appears to many to begin with Dylan Thomas and end with How Green Was My Valley. It demonstrates that Welsh identity is experienced as constantly changing, depending on how - and from where - it is viewed, and that Wales has produced a highly-varied and internationally important literature in English.

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À propos de l?auteur

M. Wynn Thomas is Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has published twenty books on American poetry and on the two literatures of Wales.

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Éditeur
University of Wales Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0708316794
ISBN 13 
9780708316795
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Éditeur
Thomas M. Wynn
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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