Description |
1 online resource (xx, 492 pages). |
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Series |
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 60
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; 60.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
This study shows how the work of Dylan Thomas may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. In presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significance for twenty-first century readers, it shows that such a reappraisal also requires us to re-think some of the ways in which all post-'Waste Land' British poetry has been read in the last few decades. |
Contents |
Introduction : the critical fates of Dylan Thomas -- 'Eggs laid by tigers' : process and the politics of mannerist modernism -- 'Under the spelling wall' : language and style -- 'Libidinous betrayal' : body-mind, sex and gender -- 'My jack of Christ' : hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism -- 'Near and fire neighbours' : war, apocalypse and elegy -- 'That country kind' : Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style -- 'The liquid choirs of his tribes' : Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English poetry -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781846318764 1846318769 |
ISBN |
1846319943 (electronic book) |
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9781846319945 (electronic book) |
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9781846318764 |
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1846318769 |
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