The poetry of Dylan Thomas : under the spelling wall / [electronic resource]
Goodby, John,1958-author.
Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. Moreover, in presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significance for twenty-first century readers, it shows that such a reappraisal also requires us to re-think some of the ways in which all post-Waste Land British poetry has been read in the last few decades.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-471) and index.
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Introduction : the critical fates of Dylan Thomas -- 'Eggs laid by tigers' : process and the politics of mannerist modernism -- 'Under the spelling wall' : language and style -- 'Libidinous betrayal' : body-mind, sex and gender -- 'My jack of Christ' : hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism -- 'Near and fire neighbours' : war, apocalypse and elegy -- 'That country kind' : Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style -- 'The liquid choirs of his tribes' : Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext.
Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. Moreover, in presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significance for twenty-first century readers, it shows that such a reappraisal also requires us to re-think some of the ways in which all post-Waste Land British poetry has been read in the last few decades.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953