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Locating Lynette Roberts : Always Observant and Slightly Obscure'.

This is the first book to present a series of critical essays on the work of the Argentine-born Welsh writer Lynette Roberts. A charismatic and important figure in the history of British poetry and anglophone Welsh writing, Roberts interacted closely with some of the most influential poets of her da...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McAvoy, Siriol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.
Colección:Writing Wales in English.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Locating Lynette Roberts: 'Always observant and slightly obscure'; 1 The Scarlet Woman; 2 '"You have a Welsh name, are you Welsh?" he asked. "I don't know," I replied': Lynette Roberts and Elective Welsh Identity; 3 'I remember these things': Memory, Misrepresentation and Cultural Tradition in Lynette Roberts's 'Seven Stories'; 4 'What changes break before us': Semi-peripheral Modernity in Lynette Roberts's Poetry and Prose
  • 5 Welsh Literary Modernism, Lynette Roberts and David Jones: Unearthing 'a huge and very important culture'6 'Crusaders uncross limbs by the green light of flares': Lynette Roberts's Avant-garde Medievalism; 7 Burnt Pain and Blasted Seashells: Lynette Roberts's Estuarine War Writing; 8 Listening and Location in the Poetry of Lynette Roberts; 9 Lynette Roberts's The Endeavour: a Generic Adventure; Select Bibliography; Index