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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations
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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