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Liberating Dylan Thomas : rescuing a poet from psycho-sexual servitude / Rhian Barfoot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barfoot, Rhian, author.
- Series:
- Writing Wales in English.
- CREW series of critical and scholarly studies.
- Writing Wales in English
- CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
- Thomas, Dylan.
- Poets, Welsh--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, Welsh.
- British literature.
- Laugharne (Wales)--Pictorial works.
- Laugharne (Wales).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout the history of Thomas's critical reception, psychoanalytic interpretations have been applied that have privileged the psychosexual over the psycho-linguistic elements of his work. The wealth of sexual and pseudo-sexual imagery has acquired a negative charge, and has been used to evidence claims that Thomas was the epiphon of his own disturbed psyche, thus reducing the poetry to the expression of the poet's schizoid neuroses. Avoiding the biography-based approaches that have dominated hitherto, Liberating Dylan Thomas rescues his early poetry from the position of servitude to the discursive mastery of psychoanalysis. Placing the poetry and psychoanalysis together in a mutually illuminating dialogue, this book clearly demonstrates the ways in which the vital connection between post-Freudian psychoanalysis and Thomas's early poetry can be articulated without reductive simplification.
- Contents:
- Cover; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Permissions; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9781783161867
- 1783161868
- 9781783161850
- 178316185X
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