| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Writing Wales in English
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Writing Wales in English.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back: An Introduction -- 2. History Is What You Live: Ron Berry's Rumination on His Conflicted Life and Times -- 3. A Man's World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry -- 4. Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970) -- 5. The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry's South Walian Imagination -- 6. 'The Inadequates': Ron Berry and Disability |
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7. 'Green always comes back': Ron Berry's Ecocentric Writing -- 8. Land of My Feathers: Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the Wing -- 9. 'Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries' -- Afterword, by Ron Berry's Children -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Ron Berry is one of the most brilliant and cantankerous of Welsh writers. Radical and earthy, he was a collier, carpenter, navvy, footballer, and unorthodox environmentalist. This volume, the first collection of essays on Berry, is a timely response to his forthcoming centenary. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Berry, Ron, 1920-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Berry, Ron, 1920-1997. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Burdett, Georgia.
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Morse, Sarah (Senior Executive Officer)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burdett, Georgia. Fight and Flight : Essays on Ron Berry. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2020 |
| ISBN |
1786835290 |
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9781786835291 (electronic book) |
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9781786835307 (ePub ebook) |
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1786835304 |
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9781786835284 (paperback) |
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