Reading Dylan Thomas

Herausgeber: Allen, Edward

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his place in modernist studies 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. Edward Allen is Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Cover image: Of Psalms and Shadows, 2014 © India Lewis Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1155-4 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781474411554
• ISBN-10: 147441155X
• Artikelnr.: 43115858

Autorenporträt

Edward Allen is a Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations; 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. 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.