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John Goodby, Chris Wigginton - Dylan Thomas, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Dylan Thomas

Av John Goodby, Chris Wigginton

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This concise biography of Dylan Thomas incorporates the most recent research, challenging the legend of the dissolute bard to reveal a diligent, professional writer, author of some of the century’s greatest lyric poetry as well as short stories, film-scripts, letters and what is commonly agreed to be the greatest radio feature ever broadcast, Under Milk Wood. Thomas is viewed primarily through the lens of his writing, and his hybrid Anglo-Welsh origins are shown to be the source of his daring stylistic inventiveness. His work is set in its historical, cultural and social contexts – Depression-era Wales and 1930s literary London, Surrealism, the rise of fascism, the Second World War and the Blitz, and the Cold War – charting the path towards his final works, which offer a unique fusion of high art and popular culture.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-01
  • Mått: 130 x 200 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 342 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Critical Lives
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 9781789149326
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John Goodby (Author) John Goodby is Professor of Arts and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University. The leading authority on Dylan Thomas, he has written extensively on his work and edited his Collected Poems (2014).Chris Wigginton (Author) Chris Wigginton is Pro Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. His books include Modernism from the Margins: The 1930s Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas (2007).

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In an astonishing statement Dylan Thomas declared “So many modern poets take the living flesh as their object, and, by their clever dissection, turn it into a carcass. I prefer to take the dead flesh, and . . . build up a living flesh from it.” This describes exactly the achievement of Thomas’s revivalist biographers: they have conjured away the dead heritage body and the caricature of Thomas’s life and poetry as coagulated emissions, quickening both life and poems to track actively their intelligent and nervous response to their environments, social, intellectual and literary. This book is the latest stage in Thomas’s restoration as a serious writer, whose work is shown newly as vital in our time. - John Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor, Department of English, University of ChicagoThis superb new biography by John Goodby and Chris Wigginton, a distillation of their work on Dylan Thomas over 25 years, is the first to take for granted his “acute intelligence” in rising to the challenge of his “inexhaustible” poetry. Anyone eager to hear all about his rambunctious ribaldry and transatlantic antics will find slim pickings, as poem after poem – from the seismic lyrics of the inspired teenager to the magnificent ‘Prologue’ of his final year – comes into startling focus, in an original and convincing reading of Thomas’s life and art. - James Keery, author of That Stranger, The Blues and editor of Apocalypse: An Anthology

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