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“Modernism from the Margins” is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers an inclusive and theoretical account of the engagement of both writers with the varieties of Modernism. It is the first reading at length of either MacNeice’s or Thomas’s work in the light of literary theory, and one of only a handful of texts to look at the writing of the 1930s in these terms.This book is an important contribution to contemporary discussions of both of these writers, and of the general issues of modernism, postmodernism, literary identity, and cultural identity it raises.
Introduction: ‘Night-Bound Doubles’?: Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and the 1930’s Chapter 1: ‘Poised on the edge of absence’: Louis MacNeice, Modernism and the 1930’s Chapter 2: ‘Death to Sense and Dissolution’: Dylan Thomas, Modernism and Surrealism in the 1930s Chapter 3: ‘The Woven Figure’: Louis MacNeice’s Ireland Chapter 4: ‘Here Lie the Beasts’: Dylan Thomas’s Monsters, Monstrous Dylan Thomas Chapter 5: ‘But One – Meaning I’: Autumn Journal’s Histories and Voices Chapter 6: ‘Crying with Hungry Voices in our Nest’: Wales and Dylan Thomas

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 octobre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786837257
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Modernism from the Margins

Writing Wales in English

CREWseries of Critical and Scholarly Studies General Editor: Professor M. Wynn Thomas (CREW, University of Wales, Swansea)

ThisCREWseries is dedicated to Emyr Humphreys, a major ﬁgure in the literary culture of modern Wales, a founding patron of theCentre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, and, along with Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney, one ofCREW’s Honorary Associates. Grateful thanks are extended to Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.

Other titles in the series Stephen Knight,A Hundred Years of Fiction

(978–0–7083–1846–1)

Barbara Prys-Williams,Twentieth-century Autobiography (978–0–7083–1891–1)

Kirsti Bohata,Postcolonialism Revisited(978–0–7083–1892–8)

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Modernism from the Margins

The 1930s Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas

Writing Wales in English

C H R I S T O P H E R W I G G I N T O N

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2007

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in aretrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without clearancefrom theUniversity of Wales Press, University Registry, King Edward VII Avenue, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NS. www.wales.ac.uk/press

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978–0–7083–1927–7

The right of Christopher Wigginton to be identiﬁed as author of this book has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of theCopyright, Designs and Patents Acts 1988.

Recommended text

Published with the ﬁnancial assistance of the Welsh Books Council

Printed in Wales by Gwasg Dinefwr, Llandybïe

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General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations

CONTENTS

Introduction ‘Night-bound-doubles’: Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and the 1930s

‘Poised on the edge of absence’: Louis MacNeice, Modernism and the 1930s

‘Our modern formula/of death to sense and dissolution’: Dylan Thomas, Modernism and surrealism in the 1930s

‘The woven ﬁgure’: Louis MacNeice’s Ireland

‘Here lie the beasts’: Dylan Thomas’s monsters, monstrous Dylan Thomas

‘But one – meaning I’:Autumn Journal’s histories and voices

‘Crying with hungry voices in our nest’: Wales and Dylan Thomas

Conclusion ‘The judge-blown bedlam’: after the 1930s

Notes Bibliography Index

vii viii ix

117

124 145 158

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GENERALEDITOR’SPREFACE

The aim of this series is to produce a body of scholarly and critical work that reﬂects the richness and variety of the English-language literature of modern Wales. Drawing upon the expertise both of established specialists and of younger scholars, it will seek to take advantage of the concepts, models and discourses current in the best contemporary studies to promote a better understanding of the literature’s signiﬁcance, viewed not only as an expression of Welsh culture but also as an instance of modern literatures in English worldwide. In addition, it will seek to make available the scholarly materials (such as bibliographies) necessary for this kind of advanced, informed study.

M. Wynn Thomas, Director, CREW (Centre for Research into the English Language and Literature of Wales) University of Wales, Swansea

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In completing this book I owe a considerable debt of thanks to my friend John Goodby for offering generous encouragement, critical insight and personal support over the whole duration of this project. For their help and support during the development and completion of this book I would like to thank the following friends and colleagues: in particular Richard Chamberlain, Gareth Downes, and Steven Vine for, respectively, pastoral, parabolic and monstrous discussions; and in general Lynn Dobbs, Victor Golightly, Medwin Hughes, Lian John, Marcus Leaning, Kevin Matherick, Steve Norris, Linden Peach, Rob Penhallurick, Harri Roberts, Berthold Schoene, Catrin Thomas, M. Wynn Thomas, Jeni Williams, Dave Woolley and Paul Wright. Finally, thanks to my parents and brother for their patience and support over the years.

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ABBREVIATIONS

References to works by Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas are included within the main body of the text. The following abbreviations are used followed by the appropriate page number(s):

CPLM

TSAF

CPDT

CLDT

UMW

Louis MacNeice,Collected Poems, ed. E. R. Dodds (London: Faber & Faber, 1979) Louis MacNeice,The Strings Are False: An Unﬁnished Autobiography, ed. E. R. Dodds (London: Faber & Faber, 1996) Dylan Thomas,Collected Poems 1934–1953, eds. Walford Davies and Ralph Maud (London: Dent, 1988) Dylan Thomas,The Collected Letters, ed. Paul Ferris (London: Dent, 1985) Dylan Thomas,Under Milk Wood, ed. Walford Davies and Ralph Maud (London: Dent, 1995)

All other references are contained in numbered chapter endnotes.