Dylan Thomas
Published on 31. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 235 pages
978-0-333-80395-0 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of essays on one of the twentieth century's most popular yet critically neglected authors, this book explores the full range of Thomas's work. It uses approaches - such as marxism, feminism and deconstruction - previously neglected by critics and focuses on his complex relationships with surrealism, modernism, Wales, popular culture, the USA and his own contemporaries. In doing so, it restores Thomas to his rightful place as a major twentieth century literary figure and cultural icon.
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Series
Edition
2001
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
391 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80395-0 (9780333803950)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-21369-2
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
CHRIS WIGGINTON is Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Carmarthen.
JOHN GOODBY is lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea.
JOHN GOODBY is lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea.
Content
Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction.- 'The Little Arisen Original Monster': Dylan Thomas's Sour Grapes; S. Smith.- The Lips of Time; S. Crehan.- 'Daughters of Darkness': Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female; K. Gramich.- 'Birth and Copulation and Death': Gothic Modernism and Surregionalism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas; C. Wigginton.- The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Welsh Contexts, Narrative and the Language of Modernism; W. Davies.- 'Death is all Metaphor': Dylan Thomas's Radical Morbidity; I. Phillips.- 'Shot from the Locks': Poetry, Mourning, Deaths and Entrances; S. Vine.- Questions of Identity: The Movement and Fern Hill; J. A. Davies.- 'Oh, for Our Vanished Youth': Avoiding Adulthood in the Later Stories of Dylan Thomas; J. Williams.- 'Very Profound and Very Box-Office': The Later Poems and Under Milk Wood; J. Goodby.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.