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Writing Wales in English: Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies - Wales, Anglocentricism and English Literature — Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Writing Wales in English: Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies - Wales, Anglocentricism and English Literature — Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Astudiaeth o fywyd a gwaith Edward Thomas (1878-1917), bardd a nofelydd Saesneg o dras Cymreig.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies uses cutting-edge models of 'world literature' to present the 'quintessentially English' writer, Edward Thomas, as a pioneering figure in an Anglophone Welsh literary tradition, a controversial reading that contributes to the present-day reconfiguration of cultural relations between Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708326220
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708326220
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Writing Wales in English: Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies - Wales, Anglocentricism and English Literature — Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
- Sub Title
- Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
- Awdur / Author
- Webb, Andrew
- Current Price ex VAT
- £24.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £24.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2013-05-29
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 288 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Astudiaethau a Thestunau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies and Texts (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Astudiaethau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter One World Literary Studies and Britain Chapter Two The Reception of Edward Thomas Chapter Three Welsh Literatures in their Political and Economic Contexts Chapter Four Edward Thomas and the Welsh Cultural Tradition Chapter Five Edward Thomas and English ‘as a foreign tongue’ Chapter Six Edward Thomas and England’s failed locales
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Dr Andrew Webb is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bangor University, North Wales, having finished his PhD at Warwick University in 2010.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory re-reading of Edward Thomas. Adapting Pascale Casanova’s vision of ‘world literature’ as a system of competing national traditions, this study analyses Thomas’s appropriation of Anglocentric British literary culture at key moments of historical crisis in the twentieth century: after the First World War, either side of the Second World War, and with the resumption of war in Ireland in the 1970s. It shows how the dominant assumptions underpinning the discipline of English Literature marginalise the Welshness of Thomas’s work, before combining this revised ‘world literature’ model with fresh archival research to reveal how Thomas’s reading of Welsh culture – its barddas, folk and literary traditions – is central both to his creation of an innovative body of poetry and to his extensive, and relatively neglected, prose. This study is groundbreaking in its contribution to recent debates about devolution and independence for Britain’s constituent nations.
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