Reading Dylan Thomas / / Edward Allen.
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 Th...
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Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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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