Poetry of Dylan Thomas - Under the Spelling Wall

An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The critical fates of Dylan Thomas 1. 'Eggs laid by tigers': process and the politics of mannerist modernism 2. 'Under the spelling wall': language and style 3. 'Libidinous betrayal': body-mind, sex and gender 4. 'My jack of Christ': hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism 5. 'Near and fire neighbours': war, apocalypse and elegy 6. 'That country kind': Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style Conclusion: 'The liquid choirs of his tribes': Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext Bibliography Index

About the author

John Goodby is Professor of English at Swansea University. He is editing a special centenary edition of the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dent / New Directions, 2014)

Summary

An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.

Product details

• Authors: John Goodby
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2014
• EAN: 9781781381151
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-115-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies