Reading Dylan Thomas

ISBN-13: 9781474411554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

Edward Allen

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A collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his place in modernist studies

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Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: Beyond Milk Wood, Edward Allen; I. Bodies and Selves; 1. Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry, John Wilkinson; 2. Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Rod Mengham; 3. Staircases, fires; bombs, milk, wombs, wax, hangmen, sleep, rabbits, stew; a Mars Bar, pin-points; lovely peaches, Deborah Bowman; 4. Dylan Thomas: ‘On out of sound’, Peter Robinson; II. Science and Media; 5. 5. ‘Lamp-posts and high-volted fruits’: Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas, John Goodby; 6. Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service, Edward Allen; 7. Film, Gramophones, and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts, Zoë Skoulding; III. Confluences and Influences; 8. Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas, Leo Mellor; 9. ‘The Verticals of Adam’: Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism, James Keery; 10. Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: ‘a kind of secret, but powerful, leaven’, Philip Coleman; 11. ‘fine contrary excess’: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Thomas’s Northern Irish Afterlives, Tom Walker; About Time: A Modernist Coda Vincent Sherry; Index.