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R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the ‘absent God’, his appalled fascination with the mixed cruelty and wonder of a divinely created world, his interest in the world-view of the ‘new physics’, and his increasingly heterodox stance on spiritual matters. What has been largely neglected is his central indebtedness to key features of the ‘classic’ Christian tradition. This book concentrates on one powerful and compelling example of this, reading Thomas’s great body of religious work in the light of the three days that form the centre of the Gospel narrative; the days which tell of the death, entombment and resurrection of Christ.

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783169214
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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Saturday’s Silence

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)

Saturday’s Silence R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

Richard McLauchlan

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2016

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9781783169207 9781783169214

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To my parents

Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations

Introduction

Con

Divine Silence and Theological Language

A Poetic Theology of Suffering

Silence, Epiphany and Hope

Prayer

Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

ix xi xiii

125

131 163 173

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 variety 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 potentialof 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 comparative and transnational contexts.

Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams

Founding Editor: M. Wynn Thomas (2004–15)

CREW(Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales) Swansea University