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Embodying identity : representations of the body in Welsh literature /

Since the time of Freud, some of the most radical innovators within critical theory have stressed the importance of the body and its representation to the constitution of subjectivity. This book explores some of the theoretical debates surrounding the body, and assesses its value as a critical conce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roberts, Harri Garrod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Colección:Writing Wales in English.
CREW series of critical and scholarly studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : theorizing the body
  • Class, nation and corporeality in the 1847 Blue books report
  • The body and the book : Caradoc Evans's My people
  • 'I give the border' : Margiad Evans and Wales
  • 'Beating on the jailing slab of the womb' : the alleged immaturity of Dylan Thomas
  • '[W]hatever/I throw up now is still theirs' : abjection in R.S. Thomas's 'Poetry of exile'
  • Horror and wonder : Glyn Jones's The valley, the city, the village and Niall Griffiths's Grits.