Oxford Literary History of Wales

Name: Oxford Literary History of Wales
Brand: Oxford University Press(UK)
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By Chapman, T Robin

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This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh literature ever published, and proceeds from two broad perspectives. First, avoiding the traditional intrinsic and extrinsic approaches to literary history as the story of literary forms, authors, other literatures, or events, it places readers, where possible, at its centre. The definition of readers adopted here is broad: fictional and non-fictional, derived from letters, reviews, and criticism, as well as audiences addressed in prefaces, those mediated through authors' consciousness, or implied, assumed, postulated, created, idealized, chided, encouraged, and reviled, and treated as experts or pupils, arbiters, or dupes. Welsh literature is approached not as the sequential product of authors writing under particular circumstances but as material interpreted and reinterpreted, discovered, and rediscovered, byreading communities across time. Second, it seeks to interpret Welsh literature as shaped in turn by a series of concerns and preconceptions that have governed production and reception through most of the period covered in this book. These include, for instance, the fact that Welsh literature hasbeen read as a crisis of cultural communicability between writers and readers; that writers in a largely amateur literary culture have been regarded as benefactors; that there is a lack of material to read; that, in a bilingual milieu, there is an inescapable relationship between Welsh and Englishliterature; that a language with widely differing spoken and written registers is preoccupied with notions of correctness and appropriateness.

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Number of Pages:: 344
Release Date:: 2020-05-08
Publication Date:: 2020-05-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0199562261
ISBN13:: 9780199562268
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 681 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 23 cm

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