Diana Wallace

Christopher Meredith (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first full-length study of the poet, novelist and translator Christopher Meredith, best-known for his novel Shifts (1988), the classic account of post-industrialisation in Wales. It draws on new material from interviews with Meredith to locate his writing in the context of his native south-east Wales. This locale, with its distinctive combination of rural and industrial and its fractured history, informs a concern with place, language and identity that runs through Meredith's work. Using chapters which pair his poetry and fiction in order to listen to the echoes between them, this study traces the development of his writing and illuminates the shared themes and concerns that connect his texts. Positioning his work in relation to wider critical discourses on the industrial novel and historical fiction, the book argues for Meredith's international significance as

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786831163
• Artikelnr.: 53040018

Autorenporträt

Undergraduate, postgraduate and academic researchers as well as an informed general readership with an interest in Welsh writing in English.