Dylan Thomas - A Literary Life

"Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, along with a critical reading of a selection of characteristic works in the many different genres in which Dylan Thomas worked, from the dense and rhetorically powerful lyrics which established his reputation through his stories and radio and film scripts to the triumphant 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood. This study is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Thomas's popular and critical reputations, and is a major contribution to the revival and revision of the poet's work and reputation"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preface 1. Uplands: Growing up in Cwmdonkin Drive 2. Truant Years: Going (and not Going) to School 3. 'A bit of a shower-off': Performing in Swansea 4. One-Track Mind: The Notebooks 5. The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitrovia 6. 'From love's first fever': Love and War, Guile and Beer 7. 'A crucial point in his career': Reinventing Dylan Thomas 8. 'Radio's a building in the air': Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves 9. 'My seashaken house on a breakneck of rocks': The Road to Laugharne 10. 'O my America, my newfoundland': The Poet on Tour 11. The Road to Milk Wood Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index?

Über den Autor / die Autorin

William Christie is Professor of English Literature and Pro-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). He is also Vice President of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia. His many publications include Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (2006), awarded the NSW Premier's Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: W Christie, W. Christie, William Christie
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137322562
• ISBN: 978-1-137-32256-2
• Seiten: 243
• Serien: Literary Lives; Literary Lives (Hardcover); Literary Lives
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America;bibliography;building;design;knowledge;love;poet