The poetry of Dylan Thomas : under the spelling wall /

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This study shows how the work of Dylan Thomas may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. In presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goodby, John, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 60.
Subjects:
Thomas, Dylan, > 1914-1953 > Criticism and interpretation.
Thomas, Dylan, > 1914-1953.
English poetry > History and criticism.
Poésie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
English poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the critical fates of Dylan Thomas
  • 'Eggs laid by tigers' : process and the politics of mannerist modernism
  • 'Under the spelling wall' : language and style
  • 'Libidinous betrayal' : body-mind, sex and gender
  • 'My jack of Christ' : hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism
  • 'Near and fire neighbours' : war, apocalypse and elegy
  • 'That country kind' : Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style
  • 'The liquid choirs of his tribes' : Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext.

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