The Poetry of Dylan Thomas ：Under the Spelling Wall ( Liverpool English Texts and Studies )

Publication subTitle ：Under the Spelling Wall

Publication series ：Liverpool English Texts and Studies

Author： John Goodby

Publisher： Liverpool University Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781846319945

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781846318764

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781846318764

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Language： ENG

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Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet’s birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. Moreover, in presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significance for twenty-first century readers, it shows that such a reappraisal also requires us to re-think some of the ways in which all post-Waste Land British poetry has been read in the last few decades. Written by the editor of the centenary edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Major broadsheet, television and radio features on Thomas planned, in which the author is already involved. The first book length engagement with the work of Dylan Thomas that utilises contemporary critical theory. Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The critical fates of Dylan Thomas 1. ‘Eggs laid by tigers’: process and the politics of mannerist modernism 2. ‘Under the spelling wall’: language and style 3. ‘Libidinous betrayal’: body-mind, sex and gender 4. ‘My jack of Christ’: hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism 5. ‘Near and fire neighbours’: war, apocalypse and elegy 6. ‘That country kind’: Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style Conclusion: ‘The liquid choirs of his tribes’: Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext Bibliography Index An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory. Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet’s birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. Moreover, in presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significance for twenty-first century readers, it shows that such a reappraisal also requires us to re-think some of the ways in which all post-Waste Land British poetry has been read in the last few decades. Written by the editor of the centenary edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Major broadsheet, television and radio features on Thomas planned, in which the author is already involved. The first book length engagement with the work of Dylan Thomas that utilises contemporary critical theory.

This is a fascinating example of how profoundly enlivening and intellectually challenging the single-author study can be. That this is only the beginning – one hopes – of a serious reconsideration of Thomas’ poetry suddenly makes the present a great place to be.