New territories in modernism : Anglophone Welsh writing, 1930-1949 / Laura Wainwright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wainwright, Laura Jane, 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):

English literature--Welsh authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--Wales.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2018]

Summary:

Until very recently, Welsh literary modernism has been critically neglected, both within and outside Wales. This is the first book solely devoted to the study of Welsh literary modernism, revealing and examining the modernism of eight key Anglophone Welsh writers. Throughout the book, the author demonstrates how the linguistic experimentation of Anglophone Welsh writers both reflects and constitutes their engagement with the modernistic conditions generated by unprecedented linguistic, social and cultural change in modern Wales. The author concludes that Anglophone Welsh writing in the period 1930-49 saw the emergence of a distinct Welsh modernism that now challenges conventional literary histories and, in more than one sense, takes modernism and modernist studies into new territories.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.