TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Kieron
AU  - Barfoot,Rhian
TI  - New theoretical perspectives on Dylan Thomas: 'a writer of words, and nothing else'? 
T2  - Writing Wales in English
SN  - 9781786835215
AV  - PR6039.H52 N49 2020eb
U1  - 821.912 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - Thomas, Dylan,
KW  - Literary studies: poetry & poets
KW  - bicssc
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 stories / Tony Brown -- 'Tawe pressed in upon him': Dylan Thomas, modernity and the rural-urban divide / Andrew Webb -- The comic voices of Dylan Thomas / M. Wynn Thomas -- 'As long as he is all cucumber and hooves': Dylan Thomas's comedy of the unconscious / Rhian Barfoot -- 'Thrown back on the cutting floor': Dylan Thomas and film / John Goodby -- 'If we are gong to call peots Bda ... ': Kingsley Amis and Dylan Thomas / James Keery -- '[E]ruptions, farts, dampsquibs [and] barrelorgans': administrating Dylan Thomas in his centenary year / Kieron Smith
N2  - Dylan Thomas's reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held 'a beast, an angel, and a madman in him', interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to exaggerated mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate across culture and the arts: from poetry and letters, to popular music and Hollywood film. However, this wide and sometimes controversial renown has occasionally hindered serious analysis of his writing. Counterbalancing the often-misleading popular reputation, this book showcases eight new critical perspectives on Thomas's work. It is the first to provide in one volume a critical overview of the multifaceted range of his output, from the poetry, prose and correspondence to his work for wartime propaganda filmmaking, his late play for voices Under Milk Wood, and his reputation in letters and wider society. The whole proves that Thomas was much more than, to use his own dubious self-description, 'a writer of words, and nothing else
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