Artists in Dylan Thomas's prose works : Adam naming and Aesop fabling / Ann Elizabeth Mayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953--Characters--Artists.

Thomas, Dylan.

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953--Prose.

Art and literature--Wales--History--20th century.

Art and literature.

Artists in literature.

Physical Description:

198 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through an analysis of the artist figures in Thomas's early experimental prose, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade, and Under Milk Wood, Mayer illustrates that he was continually exploring and re-evaluating his vocation, the nature of his chosen medium, and the world itself. Mayer links Thomas's prose works to his poetry through the blending of lyric and narrative strategies. As well, she examines Thomas's self-conscious concerns about his relationship to his modernist contemporaries. Mayer goes beyond the traditional New Critical approaches that dominate Thomas scholarship and uses contemporary critical theory to offer new insights into the complexity and ambiguity of a major twentieth-century writer.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Written World

Solipsistic Adam

Portraits of the Artist

Under Milk Wood

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-6541-8

OCLC:

929121209