Fight and Flight
Essays on Ron Berry
Published on 15. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78683-528-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ron Berry [1920-97] is one of the most remarkably astute yet relatively neglected twentieth-century Rhondda writers. An avid walker, birdwatcher, `potcher', sportsman and miner, Berry is the product of a distinctive Rhondda landscape; the formidable peaks of Pen Pych and Cefn Nant y Gwair were to be a continuing source of inspiration for him in his writing. His idiosyncratic viewpoints, of which there are many, are reflected in both his memoir and fiction. As the first sustained critical study of his work, this collection seeks a literal, physical and chronological `zooming-outwards', from the man himself to the personal and literary geographies and communities in which he was posited, to his creative legacy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
No
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-528-4 (9781786835284)
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02/2020
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
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E-Book
02/2020
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
€32.99
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Persons
Georgia Burdett is an ABA therapist and tutor for children with autism, and an independent scholar. Sarah Morse is Senior Executive Officer at the Learned Society of Wales, and an independent scholar.
Content
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
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