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Poetry of Dylan Thomas

Under the Spelling Wall

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvJohn Goodby

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Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet’s birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work 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. Moreover, 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-07-31
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool English Texts and Studies
Antal sidor512
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781846318764

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AcknowledgementsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: The critical fates of Dylan Thomas1. ‘Eggs laid by tigers’: process and the politics of mannerist modernism2. ‘Under the spelling wall’: language and style3. ‘Libidinous betrayal’: body-mind, sex and gender4. ‘My jack of Christ’: hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism5. ‘Near and fire neighbours’: war, apocalypse and elegy6. ‘That country kind’: Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late styleConclusion: ‘The liquid choirs of his tribes’: Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertextBibliographyIndex

Reviews'Written with élan, dexterity and wit, and with an immersion in both critical theory and the history of twentieth century poetry, Under the Spelling Wall has a natural authority, as well as a decisive narrative drive. The range of works proposed for inclusion, and the way in which they are interrelated represents something magnificent in contemporary criticism, a lauding of complexity not in the abstract but in the minutiae of what was published, and how that occurred. The reading of ‘Altarwise by Owl-light’ is sublimely good and the work on ‘Fern Hill’ is the most impressive I have ever seen on this poem. It is a model of the single author studies that are formative to a (renewed) critical direction.'Leo Mellor