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New theoretical perspectives on Dylan Thomas : 'a writer of words, and nothing else'? /

Dylan Thomas's reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held 'a beast, an angel, and a madman in him', interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to exaggerated mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate across culture and the arts: fro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Kieron (Editor ), Barfoot, Rhian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020
Colección:Writing Wales in English.
CREW series of critical and scholarly studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a Dylan Thomas's reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held 'a beast, an angel, and a madman in him', interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to exaggerated mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate across culture and the arts: from poetry and letters, to popular music and Hollywood film. However, this wide and sometimes controversial renown has occasionally hindered serious analysis of his writing. Counterbalancing the often-misleading popular reputation, this book showcases eight new critical perspectives on Thomas's work. It is the first to provide in one volume a critical overview of the multifaceted range of his output, from the poetry, prose and correspondence to his work for wartime propaganda filmmaking, his late play for voices Under Milk Wood, and his reputation in letters and wider society. The whole proves that Thomas was much more than, to use his own dubious self-description, 'a writer of words, and nothing else 
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505 0 |a Introduction: '[a] writer of words, and nothing else' / Kieron Smith and Rhian Barfoot -- Shibboleth: for Dylan Thomas / Tomos Owen -- The 'strange' wales of Dylan Thomas's short stories / Tony Brown -- 'Tawe pressed in upon him': Dylan Thomas, modernity and the rural-urban divide / Andrew Webb -- The comic voices of Dylan Thomas / M. Wynn Thomas -- 'As long as he is all cucumber and hooves': Dylan Thomas's comedy of the unconscious / Rhian Barfoot -- 'Thrown back on the cutting floor': Dylan Thomas and film / John Goodby -- 'If we are gong to call peots Bda ... ': Kingsley Amis and Dylan Thomas / James Keery -- '[E]ruptions, farts, dampsquibs [and] barrelorgans': administrating Dylan Thomas in his centenary year / Kieron Smith 
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