Fight and Flight

Essays on Ron Berry

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Ron Berry [1920-97] is one of the most remarkably astute yet relatively neglected twentieth-century Rhondda writers. An avid walker, birdwatcher, `potcher', sportsman and miner, Berry is the product of a distinctive Rhondda landscape; the formidable peaks of Pen Pych and Cefn Nant y Gwair were to be a continuing source of inspiration for him in his writing. His idiosyncratic viewpoints, of which there are many, are reflected in both his memoir and fiction. As the first sustained critical study of his work, this collection seeks a literal, physical and chronological `zooming-outwards', from the man himself to the personal and literary geographies and communities in which he was posited, to his creative legacy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-15
Mått:138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786835284

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Georgia Burdett is an ABA therapist and tutor for children with autism, and an independent scholar. Sarah Morse is Senior Executive Officer at the Learned Society of Wales, and an independent scholar.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of abbreviationsWays Out: Ways In: Ways Back An Introduction Barbara Prys-Williams, History is what you live: Ron Berry's rumination on his conflicted life and timesTony Brown, A Man's World: The Short Fiction of Ron BerryJohn Perrott Jenkins, Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970)Daryl Leeworthy, The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry's south-Walian ImaginationGeorgia Burdett, `The Inadequates': Ron Berry and DisabilitySarah Morse, `Green always comes back': Ron Berry's ecocentric writingTomos Owen, `Land of my Feathers': Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the WingJohn Pikoulis, `Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries'AfterwordBibliography