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The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Emyr Humphreys, born in 1919, is one of the most prolific and significant modern Welsh writers. Generally rooted in North Wales, his fiction provides fresh insights into modern Welsh history, nonconformity, and globalization. This pioneering book explores Humphreys’s work from a range of contemporary critical perspectives and stresses its relevance to the twenty-first century. Through readings that highlight such subjects as gender identity, familial relationships, war, pacifism, and otherness, Linden peach argues that Humphrey’s work is best understood as dramatic, dissident, or dilemma fiction.
252 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2011
University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Reviews
Table of Contents
General Editor’s Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions of Works by Emyr Humphreys
Part One: Frames and Contexts
1. Humphreys’s Life and Works
2. What Kind of Fiction?
3. History, Space and Progress
4. Bodies in Time: Psychoanalytic Contours
5. Women, Feminism and Post-feminism
Part Two: Readings
6. Resistance, Gender and Performative Identity: A Man’s Estate
7. Contested Masculinities: A Toy Epic
8. Time and Being: Outside the House of Baal
9. Land of the Living and Epic Theatre
10. Warring Families: Unconditional Surrender and The Gift of a Daughter
11. Strangers in a Strange Land: Natives, Ghosts and Strangers and Old People are a Problem
12. Intimate Strangers: The Shop
13. Independence, Globalism and Nonconformity: The Woman at the Window
14. Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions of Works by Emyr Humphreys
Part One: Frames and Contexts
1. Humphreys’s Life and Works
2. What Kind of Fiction?
3. History, Space and Progress
4. Bodies in Time: Psychoanalytic Contours
5. Women, Feminism and Post-feminism
Part Two: Readings
6. Resistance, Gender and Performative Identity: A Man’s Estate
7. Contested Masculinities: A Toy Epic
8. Time and Being: Outside the House of Baal
9. Land of the Living and Epic Theatre
10. Warring Families: Unconditional Surrender and The Gift of a Daughter
11. Strangers in a Strange Land: Natives, Ghosts and Strangers and Old People are a Problem
12. Intimate Strangers: The Shop
13. Independence, Globalism and Nonconformity: The Woman at the Window
14. Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index