Liberating Dylan Thomas - Rescuing a Poet From Psycho-Sexual Servitude

Liberating Dylan Thomas demonstrates the ways in which the vital connection between post-Freudian psychoanalysis and Thomas's early poetry can be articulated without reductive simplification.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1 '[M]aking deadly whoopee': Dylan Thomas' Jouissance of Influence Part 2 '[A]nd I am dumb to tell': Presenting and Representing the Unpresentable Part 3 'Toenails and Tumours': Re-routing Abjection, From Pessimism to Parody

Summary

Liberating Dylan Thomas demonstrates the ways in which the vital connection between post-Freudian psychoanalysis and Thomas’s early poetry can be articulated without reductive simplification.

Product details

• Authors: Rhian Barfoot, Barfoot Rhian, Rhian Bubear
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2015
• EAN: 9781783161843
• ISBN: 978-1-78316-184-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Writing Wales in English; Writing Wales in English
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Psycho, Thomas, Poet, Dylan, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, From, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Sexual, Literature: history and criticism, servitude, Rescuing, Liberating