Reading Dylan Thomas / / Edward Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Allen, Edward,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Edward,; Bowman, Deborah,; Coleman, Philip,; Goodby, John,; Keery, James,; Mellor, Leo,; Mengham, Rod,; Robinson, Peter,; Sherry, Vincent,; Skoulding, Zoë,; Walker, Tom,; Wilkinson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

A collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his place in modernist studiesReclining 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. Key FeaturesEvaluates the breadth of Thomas’s creative practice, from short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to films, manuscripts to paintingsDraws on recently discovered manuscripts and archival material in Britain and North AmericaA distinctive combination of cultural history, close reading, and critical theory

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Beyond Milk Wood -- I. Bodies and Selves -- Chapter 1 Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry -- Chapter 2 Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog -- Chapter 3 Staircases, fires; bombs, milk, wombs, wax, hangmen, sleep, rabbits, stew; a Mars Bar, pinpoints; lovely peaches -- Chapter 4 Dylan Thomas: ‘On out of sound’ -- II. Science and Media -- Chapter 5 ‘Lamp-posts and high-volted fruits’: Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas -- Chapter 6 Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service -- Chapter 7 Film, Gramophones and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts -- III. Confluences and Influences -- Chapter 8 Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas -- Chapter 9 ‘The verticals of Adam’: Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism -- Chapter 10 Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: ‘a kind of secret, but powerful, leaven’ -- Chapter 11 ‘Fine contrary excess’: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Thomas’s Northern Irish Afterlives -- About Time: A Modernist Coda for Thomas -- Index