A Guide to Welsh Literature: Writing in English

by Thomas, M. Wynn

• ISBN13: 9780708316795
• ISBN10: 0708316794
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The book opens with a broad survey of pre-twentieth-century literature. Subsequent chapters deal with industrial fictions; border literature and border identity; Dylan Thomas and his contemporaries; natives and exiles; popular fiction and the Welsh imagination; writers living and working outside Wales; the poetry revival of the 1960s; literature in the last quarter of the twentieth century; and parallels with other literatures. Among the many writers discussed in detail are John Dyer, Henry Vaughan, Caradoc Evans, Rhys Davies, Gwyn Jones, Emlyn Williams, Margiad Evans, Richard Hughes, David Jones, Dylan Thomas, Glyn Jones, Idris Davies, Alun Lewis, Roland Mathias, R. S. Thomas, Emyr Humphreys, Brenda Chamberlain, Richard Llewellyn, Allen Raine, Harri Webb, Leslie Norris, John Ormond, Dannie Abse, Alun Richards, Gillian Clarke and Christopher Meredith.

Author Biography

M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, University of Wales, Swansea.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
M. Wynn Thomas
Prelude to the Twentieth Century	7	(40)
Belinda Humfrey
`A New Enormous Music': Industrial Fiction in Wales	47	(44)
Stephen Knight
Borderers and Borderline Cases	91	(29)
John Powell Ward
Dylan Thomas and his Welsh Contemporaries	120	(45)
James A. Davies
The Problems of Belonging	165	(38)
Tony Brown
M. Wynn Thomas
Popular Images	203	(19)
John Harris
Poetry Wales and the Second Flowering	222	(33)
Tony Conran
Both in and out of the Game: Welsh Writers and the British Dimension	255	(23)
Katie Gramich
`Pulling you through Changes': Welsh Writing in English before, between and after two Referenda	278	(32)
Jane Aaron
M. Wynn Thomas
Parallels and Paradigms	310	(17)
Ned Thomas
Bibliographies and Selected List of Primary Texts	327	(5)
Index	332