Reading Dylan Thomas
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1155-4 (ISBN)
Reclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a website gone live … Few poets have inspired such remarkable scenes and modes of interpretation as Dylan Thomas. Our means of access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and this collection sheds new light on what it means to ‘read’ such a various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to films, manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas’s formal versatility, and his distinctive relation to literary modernism.
Key Features
Evaluates the breadth of Thomas’s creative practice, from short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to films, manuscripts to paintingsDraws on recently discovered manuscripts and archival material in Britain and North AmericaA distinctive combination of cultural history, close reading, and critical theory
Edward Allen is a Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ’s College.
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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction: Beyond Milk Wood
Edward Allen
I. Bodies and Selves
1. Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
John Wilkinson
2. Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Rod Mengham
3. Staircases, fires, bombs, milk, wombs, wax, hangmen, sleep, rabbits, stew, a Mars Bar, pin-points; lovely peaches
Deborah Bowman
4. Dylan Thomas: ‘On out of sound’
Peter Robinson
II. Science and Media
5. ‘Lamp-posts and high-volted fruits’: Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas
John Goodby
6. Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service
Edward Allen
7. Film, Gramophones, and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts
Zoë Skoulding
III. Confluences and Influences
8. Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas
Leo Mellor
9. ‘The Verticals of Adam’: Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism
James Keery
10. Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: ‘a kind of secret, but powerful,
leaven’
Philip Coleman
11. ‘fine contrary excess’: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Thomas’s
Northern Irish Afterlives
Tom Walker
About Time: A Modernist Coda
Vincent Sherry
Index
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black and white illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 554 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-1155-X / 147441155X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-1155-4 / 9781474411554 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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