Reading Dylan Thomas / edited by Edward Allen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen, Edward, 1985- editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953--Criticism and interpretation.

Thomas, Dylan.

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 252 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher..

Contents:

I Bodies and Selves

1 Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas's Poetry p. 15 / John Wilkinson

2 Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog p. 36 / Rod Mengham

3 Staircases, fires; bombs, milk, wombs, wax, hangmen, sleep, rabbits, stew; a Mars Bar, pin-points; lovely peaches p. 49 / Deborah Bowman

4 Dylan Thomas: 'On out of sound' p. 71 / Peter Robinson

II Science and Media

5 'Lamp-posts and high-volted fruits': Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas p. 91 / John Goodby

6 Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service p. 110 / Edward Allen

7 Film, Gramophones and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts p. 138 / Zoë Skoulding

III Confluences and Influences

8 Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas p. 157 / Leo Mellor

9 'The verticals of Adam': Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism p. 179 / James Keery

10 Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: 'a kind of secret, but powerful, leaven' p. 197 / Philip Coleman

11 'Fine contrary excess': Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Thomas's Northern Irish Afterlives p. 215 / Tom Walker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781474411554

147441155X

OCLC:

1082260241

Publisher Number:

99983585986