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Reading Dylan Thomas
By Edward Allen
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Reclining 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 Thomas. Our means of access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and this collection sheds new light on what it means to 'read' such a various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to films, manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas's formal versatility, and his distinctive relation to literary modernism.
Edward Allen is Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.
Cover image: Of Psalms and Shadows, 2014 © India Lewis
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Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2019-01-01
Publication Date:
2018-12-05
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
147441155X
ISBN13:
9781474411554
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Weight:
517 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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