Reading Dylan Thomas

ISBN-13: 9781474473170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Edward Allen

Opis

Reclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a website gone live ... Few poets have inspired such remarkable scenes and modes of interpretation as Dylan Thomas. Our means of access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and this collection sheds new light on what it means to 'read' such a various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to films, manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas's formal versatility, and his distinctive relation to literary modernism.

Spis treści

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.