Welsh writing has recently undergone an international renaissance however, very little of this attention has been directed toward women s fiction. Aimed at a general audience with a broad array of interests, "Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women s Fiction" is the first comparative study of fiction by late-twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers from Ireland, North Ireland, and Wales. This volume breaks new ground in its exploration of rich and critically-deserving texts that have previously been marginalized from much of Welsh and Irish literary fiction in English."
Welsh writing has recently undergone an international renaissance however, very little of this attention has been directed toward women s fiction. Aim...
"Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry" is a critical study of the early twentieth century English poet Edward Thomas (1878 1917), who is known for the poems he wrote during World War I. Judy Kendall offers close readings of Thomas s poems, prose, and letters, all the while illuminating his close relationship to nature; connections between his approach to composition and the writing of Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and William James; and the influence of Japanese aesthetics on his works. Kendall s study also presents surprising and insightful ideas about poetic composition in...
"Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry" is a critical study of the early twentieth century English poet Edward Thomas (1878 1917), who is known ...
Maps have long been a source of inspiration for imaginative writers, and "Cartographies of Culture" offers a pioneering new examination of the long-standing links between the two. Damian Walford Davies focuses on the Anglophone literature of and offers a boldly imaginative and stringently theorized analysis of five literary maps. In the process, he sets up an innovative dialogue between literary studies and geography that generates a genuinely interdisciplinary study of literary texts in relation to the spatial aspects of culture. What emerges is nothing less than a new way of reading...
Maps have long been a source of inspiration for imaginative writers, and "Cartographies of Culture" offers a pioneering new examination of the long...
Raymond Williams (1921 88) was a Welsh, working-class academic writer and novelist, influential in both the creation of cultural studies as an academic subject and in his attempts to democratize access to education. Here Hywel Dix applies Williams s theory that literary texts not only reflect what is happening in a society but also cause certain changes to occur to literature and film produced in the years since Williams s death, particularly during the years of political devolution in the United Kingdom. Dix explores the ways in which contemporary Welsh and Scottish writing contributes to...
Raymond Williams (1921 88) was a Welsh, working-class academic writer and novelist, influential in both the creation of cultural studies as an academi...
How do we define Welshness? Does that definition differ from how the concept was defined in the past? And how do those definitions take account of differences of race, class, gender, and language? "Wales Unchained" takes on these questions, exploring the various categories that have informed, and continue to inform, ideas of Wales and Welshness. Through discussions of such key figures as Rhys Davies, Dylan Thomas, Raymond Williams, Aneurin Bevan, and Gwyneth Lewis, Daniel G. Williams teases out the aesthetic and political implications of varying conceptions of self and community.
How do we define Welshness? Does that definition differ from how the concept was defined in the past? And how do those definitions take account of dif...
Wales is small geographically, but its rich and varied culture belies its size. This collection of essays focuses on English-language authors from Wales in order to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. Contributors include Lynette Roberts, who is Argentinian by birth but of Welsh decent; Peggy Ann Whistler, who chose a new Welsh identity as Margiad Evans; Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the decaying squirearchy of the Welsh border country remain sadly little known; and Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, whose Welsh-English translations bring out the bicultural character...
Wales is small geographically, but its rich and varied culture belies its size. This collection of essays focuses on English-language authors from Wal...
Wales is small geographically, but its rich and varied culture belies its size. This collection of essays focuses on English-language authors from Wales in order to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. Contributors include Lynette Roberts, who is Argentinian by birth but of Welsh decent; Peggy Ann Whistler, who chose a new Welsh identity as Margiad Evans; Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the decaying squirearchy of the Welsh border country remain sadly little known; and Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, whose Welsh-English translations bring out the bicultural character...
Wales is small geographically, but its rich and varied culture belies its size. This collection of essays focuses on English-language authors from Wal...
