Dylan Thomas

A collection of essays on one of the twentieth century''s most popular yet critically neglected authors, this book explores the full range of Thomas''s work. It uses approaches - such as marxism, feminism and deconstruction - previously neglected by critics and focuses on his complex relationships with surrealism, modernism, Wales, popular culture, the USA and his own contemporaries. In doing so, it restores Thomas to his rightful place as a major twentieth century literary figure and cultural icon.>

Table des matières

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
General Editors' Preface
Introduction
'The Little Arisen Original Monster': Dylan Thomas's Sour Grapes;  S. Smith
The Lips of Time;  S. Crehan
'Daughters of Darkness': Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female;  K. Gramich
'Birth and Copulation and Death': Gothic Modernism and Surregionalism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas;  C. Wigginton
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Welsh Contexts, Narrative and the Language of Modernism;  W. Davies
'Death is all Metaphor': Dylan Thomas's Radical Morbidity;  I. Phillips
'Shot from the Locks': Poetry, Mourning,  Deaths and Entrances ;  S. Vine
Questions of Identity: The Movement and  Fern Hill ;  J. A. Davies
'Oh, for Our Vanished Youth': Avoiding Adulthood in the Later Stories of Dylan Thomas;  J. Williams
'Very Profound and Very Box-Office': The Later Poems and  Under Milk Wood ;  J. Goodby
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

A propos de l'auteur

CHRIS WIGGINTON is Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Carmarthen.

JOHN GOODBY is lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John Goodby, Christopher Wigginton
• Collaboration: Joh Goodby (Editeur), John Goodby (Editeur), Wigginton (Editeur), Wigginton (Editeur), Christopher Wigginton (Editeur)
• Edition: Macmillan
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 31.10.2001
• EAN: 9780333803950
• ISBN: 978-0-333-80395-0
• Pages: 235
• Thèmes: New Casebooks; Contemporary Critical Essays; New Casebooks
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature; B, Poetry, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Modernism;novel;poem;poetry;twentieth century