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Until very recently, Welsh literary Modernism has been critically neglected, both within and outside Wales. This is the first book devoted solely to the study of Welsh literary Modernism, revealing and examining eight key Anglophone Welsh writers. Laura Wainwright demonstrates how their linguistic experimentation constituted an engagement with the unprecedented linguistic, social and cultural changes that were the making of modern Wales, and formed the crucible for the emergence of a distinct Welsh Modernism. This study of Welsh Modernism challenges conventional literary histories and, in more than one sense, takes Modernism and Modernist studies into new territories.

General Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘The dissolving and splitting of solid things’: Welsh Modernism’s ‘crisis of language’
2 ‘Always observant and slightly obscure’: Lynette Roberts as Welsh Modernist
3 Vernon Watkins’s ‘modern country of the arts’
4 Cadaqués and Carmarthenshire: the Modernist ‘heterotopias’ of Salvador Dalí and Dylan Thomas
5 ‘Hellish funny’: The grotesque Modernism of Gwyn Thomas and Rhys Davies
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Literary Criticism

Irish

English

European

Welsh

Scottish

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786832184
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	30 Mo

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New Territories in Modernism

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

CREWseries of Critical and Scholarly Studies General Editors: Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams (CREW, Swansea University)

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. Grateful thanks are due to the late 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) Chris Wigginton,Modernism from the Margins(9780708319277) Linden Peach,Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction(9780708319987) Sarah Prescott,EighteenthCentury Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons(9780708320532) Hywel Dix,After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the BreakUp of Britain(9780708321539) Matthew Jarvis,Welsh Environments in Contemporary Welsh Poetry(9780708321522) Harri Garrod Roberts,Embodying Identity: Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature(9780708321690) Diane Green,Emyr Humphreys: A Postcolonial Novelist(9780708322178) M. Wynn Thomas,In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales(9780708322253) Linden Peach,The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys: Contemporary Critical Perspectives(9780708322161) Daniel Westover,R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography(9780708324134) Jasmine Donahaye,Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine(9780708324837) Judy Kendall,Edward Thomas: The Origins of His Poetry(9780708324035) Damian Walford Davies,Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English(9780708324769) Daniel G. Williams,Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales 1845–1945(9780708319871) Andrew Webb,Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies: Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature(9780708326220) Alyce von Rothkirch,J. O. Francis, realist drama and ethics: Culture, place and nation(9781783160709) Rhian Barfoot,Liberating Dylan Thomas: Rescuing a Poet from PsychoSexual Servitude(9781783161843) Daniel G. Williams,Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century(9781783162123) M. Wynn Thomas,The Nations of Wales 1890–1914(9781783168378) Richard McLauchlan,Saturday’s Silence: R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading(9781783169207) Bethan M. Jenkins,Between Wales and England: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century(9781786830296) M. Wynn Thomas,All that is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas(9781786830883)

New Territories in Modernism

Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930–1949

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

Laura Wainwright

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2018

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ISBN: 9781786832177 eISBN: 9781786832184

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Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements

Introduction

Con

‘The dissolving and splitting of solid things’: Welsh Modernism’s ‘crisis of language’

‘Always observant and slightly obscure’: Lynette Roberts as Welsh Modernist

Vernon Watkins’s ‘Modern Country of the Arts’

Cadaqués and Carmarthenshire: The Modernist ‘Heterotopias’ of Salvador Dalí and Dylan Thomas

‘Hellish Funny’: The Grotesque Modernism of Gwyn Thomas and Rhys Davies

Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

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Series Editors’ PreFace

The aim of this series, since its founding in 2004 by Professor M. Wynn Thomas, is to publish scholarly and critical work by established specialists and younger scholars that reﬂects the richness and var iety of the Englishlanguage literature of modern Wales. The studies published so far have amply demonstrated that concepts, models and discourses current in the best contemporary studies can illuminate aspects of Welsh culture, and have also foregrounded the potential of the Welsh example to draw attention to themes that are often neglected or marginalised in anglophone cultural studies. The series deﬁnes and explores that which distinguishes Wales’s anglophone literature, challenges critics to develop methods and approaches adequate to the task of interpreting Welsh culture, and invites its readers to locate the process of writing Wales in English within com parative and transnational contexts.

Professor Kirsti Bohata and Professor Daniel G. Williams Founding Editor: Professor M. Wynn Thomas (2004–15) CREW (Centre for Research into the EnglishLiterature and Language of Wales) Swansea University