New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas

“A writer of words, and nothing else”

Edited by Kieron Smith and Rhian Barfoot

New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas

Edited by Kieron Smith and Rhian Barfoot

Distributed for University of Wales Press

240 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English
Paper $34.00 ISBN: 9781786835208 Published April 2020 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
E-book $34.00 ISBN: 9781786835215 Will Publish April 2020 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
Dylan Thomas has been the subject of academic inquiry since his earliest publications. Yet even today, scholars continue to find new ways of exploring his work. Bringing together a number of leading scholars who specialize in Thomas’s work, this volume showcases eight exciting new critical perspectives. The book is the first to provide a critical overview of the whole of Thomas’s wide-ranging output, including his poetry, prose, and correspondence; his work on wartime propaganda filmmaking; his late play for voices, Under Milk Wood; and his influence in letters and wider society.
Contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Used Notes on Contributors Introduction: ‘[A] writer of words, and nothing else’, Kieron Smith and Rhian Barfoot Shibboleth: For Dylan Thomas, Tomos Owen The ‘Strange’ Wales of Dylan Thomas’s Short Sto
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Damian Walford Davies, Cardiff University
"A volume that boldly defamiliarizes Thomas, revealing his innovative adventures in the word trade to be a search for forms of representation appropriate to the comic, horrific world he said he ate, drank, hated and loved."
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