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Author Goodby, John, 1958-

Title The poetry of Dylan Thomas : under the spelling wall / John Goodby.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 492 pages).
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Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 60
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 60.
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.
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Subject Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
Criticism and interpretation.
English poetry -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781846318764 1846318769
ISBN 1846319943 (electronic book)
9781846319945 (electronic book)
9781846318764
1846318769