Writing Wales in English – serie
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R. S. Thomas, Desperado
Cultural Warrior of Wales
Häftad, 2026
361 kr
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This study ranges R. S. Thomas’s career, and includes a study of unpublished early notebooks; a comparison of his Manafon poems with a contemporary sociological account of a similar region; reflections on his interest in Native American history; an exploration of his poetic relationship with …
Emyr Humphreys
Conversations and Reflections
Häftad, 2004
137 kr
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This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout Humphreys' work.
Twentieth-Century Autobiography
Häftad, 2004
98 kr
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The writing of good autobiography requires an encounter with oneself that can involve the need to wrestle with potent elements from one's past. This work on 20th-century Welsh autobiography in English traces the psychological influences which have shaped the consciousness and world views of seven …
Postcolonialism Revisited
Häftad, 2004
137 kr
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Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be …
Black Skin, Blue Books
African Americans and Wales 1845-1945
Häftad, 2012
238 kr
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Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul …
Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction
Gender, Desire and Power
Av Linden Peach
Häftad, 2007
98 kr
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Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This work is of interest to students interested in women's studies, gender studies, and cultural studies as well as Welsh, Irish and Celtic studies.
Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales
Bards and Britons
Häftad, 2008
181 kr
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Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the 'invention' of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagines the nation and …
Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry
Häftad, 2008
137 kr
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Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry' examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English within the context of recent developments in …
Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Av Linden Peach
Häftad, 2011
176 kr
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An introduction to the work of one of Wales's leading writers, highlighting his importance to contemporary critical and cultural agendas such as issues of identity, nation, environment and religious conflict.
Emyr Humphreys
A Postcolonial Novelist?
Av Diane Green
Häftad, 2009
176 kr
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This book is an examination of the novels of Emyr Humphreys in the light of his ideas on Wales: Welsh history, Welsh culture and the importance of a separate Welsh identity. It explores Humphreys' practice in the light both of his own theories of culture and fiction and of a variety of models …
In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Literature and Nonconformist Wales
Häftad, 2009
263 kr
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Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. …
Postcolonialism Revisited
E-bok, 2009
141 kr
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Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be …
Embodying Identity
Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature
E-bok, 2009
176 kr
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Since the time of Freud, some of the most radical innovators within critical theory have stressed the importance of the body and its representation to the constitution of subjectivity. This book explores some of the theoretical debates surrounding the body, and assesses its value as a critical …
Emyr Humphreys
A Postcolonial Novelist?
Av Diane Green
E-bok, 2009
229 kr
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This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout Humphreys' work.
In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Literature and Nonconformist Wales
E-bok, 2009
264 kr
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Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. …
Edward Thomas
The Origins of his Poetry
Av Judy Kendall
Häftad, 2012
296 kr
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Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry builds a new theoretical framework for critical work on imaginative composition through an investigation of Edward Thomas's composing processes, on material from his letters, his poems and his prose books. It looks at his relation to the land and landscape …
Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Av Linden Peach
E-bok, 2011
123 kr
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For over half a century, Emyr Humphreys's work as a novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist and television producer has been extraordinarily impressive. This pioneering and stimulating book considers Humphreys's fiction from a range of contemporary critical perspectives and stresses its …
R. S. Thomas
A Stylistic Biography
E-bok, 2011
299 kr
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In R.S. Thomas - A Stylistic Biography, Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems.
R. S. Thomas
A Stylistic Biography
Inbunden, 2011
825 kr
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In R.S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography, Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems.
Edward Thomas
The Origins of his Poetry
Av Judy Kendall
E-bok, 2012
299 kr
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A critical study of the much-loved early twentieth century English poet Edward Thomas - the 'poet's poet'. It includes illuminating new readings of his poems, prose and letters. Topics covered include his close relation to nature, the land and landscape.
Cartographies of Culture
New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English
E-bok, 2012
211 kr
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This pioneering study offers dynamic new answers to Christian Jacob's question: 'What are the links that bind the map to writing?'
Whose People?
Wales, Israel, Palestine
Häftad, 2012
230 kr
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Wales has a long history of interest in Palestine and Israel, and a close interest in Jews and Zionism. This monograph, the first to explore the subject, asks searching questions about the relationship that Wales has with the Israel-Palestine situation. Surveying Welsh missionary writing, fictional …
Whose People?
Wales, Israel, Palestine
E-bok, 2012
141 kr
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Wales has a long history of interest in Palestine and Israel, and a close interest in Jews and Zionism. This monograph, the first to explore the subject, asks searching questions about the relationship that Wales has with the Israel-Palestine situation.
Black Skin, Blue Books
African Americans and Wales 1845-1945
E-bok, 2012
551 kr
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This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Av Andrew Webb
Häftad, 2013
418 kr
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Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory re-reading of Edward Thomas. Adapting Pascale Casanova's vision of 'world literature' as a system of competing national traditions, this study analyses Thomas's appropriation of Anglocentric British literary culture at key moments of …
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Av Andrew Webb
E-bok, 2013
176 kr
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This book uses models of 'world literature' to present this 'quintessentially English' writer as a pioneering figure in an Anglophone Welsh literary tradition, a controversial reading that contributes to the present-day reconfiguration of cultural relations between Wales, England, Scotland
After Raymond Williams
Cultural Materialism and the Break-up of Britain
Av Hywel Dix
Häftad, 2013
154 kr
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After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain has two broad aims. The first is to re-examine the concept of cultural materialism, the term used by Raymond Williams to describe his theory of how writing and other cultural forms relate to general social and historical …
After Raymond Williams
Cultural Materialism and the Break-up of Britain
Av Hywel Dix
E-bok, 2013
615 kr
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After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain has two broad aims. The first is to re-examine the concept of cultural materialism, the term used by Raymond Williams to describe his theory of how writing and other cultural forms relate to general social and historical …
J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics
Culture, Place and Nation
E-bok, 2014
794 kr
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This book introduces the reader to the work of the neglected Welsh dramatist J.O. Francis, a major figure in the amateur dramatic circles in Wales in the early 20th century. The book argues that Francis's work displays a particular ethical response to Wales, which aims for a realistic depiction of …
Liberating Dylan Thomas
Rescuing a Poet from Psycho-Sexual Servitude
E-bok, 2015
176 kr
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Throughout the history of Thomas’s critical reception, psychoanalytic interpretations have been applied that have privileged the psychosexual over the psycho-linguistic elements of his work. The wealth of sexual and pseudo-sexual imagery has acquired a negative charge, and has been used to evidence …
