Writing Wales in English: New Territories in Modernism - Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949 — Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Yn y gyfrol hon, edrychir ar waith wyth awdur Cymreig allweddol oedd yn llenydda yn Saesneg, gan ddadlau bod llenyddiaeth Eingl-Gymreig y cyfnod 1930-49 yn dynodi dechreuadau Moderniaeth Gymreig penodol, herio astudiaethau llenyddol hanesyddol traddodiadol a thynnu llenyddiaeth fodernaidd ac astudiaethau modernaidd i diriogaethau newydd.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Looking at the work of eight key Anglophone Welsh writers, this book argues that Welsh writing in English 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.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 ‘The dissolving and splitting of solid things’: Welsh Modernism’s ‘crisis of language’ 2 ‘Always observant and slightly obscure’: Lynette Roberts as Welsh Modernist 3 Vernon Watkins’s ‘modern country of the arts’ 4 Cadaqués and Carmarthenshire: the Modernist ‘heterotopias’ of Salvador Dalí and Dylan Thomas 5 ‘Hellish funny’: The grotesque Modernism of Gwyn Thomas and Rhys Davies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Dr Laura Wainwright is an independent academic and writer. She was awarded her PhD in English Literature at Cardiff University, and has published essays in the fields of Welsh writing in English and Modernism.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Key selling points • This is the first book solely devoted to the study of Anglophone Welsh literary Modernism, making it an important resource for any person interested in Welsh and British literature and culture. • In bringing writing from Wales into dialogue with international Modernism, this book aims to broaden and diversify our understanding of the concept of Modernism itself and will, therefore, potentially be of use to researchers in Modernism studies more generally. • This book does not seek to provide an exhaustive history of Modernism in Wales but explicitly aims to inspire continued interest and debate in the field. I hope that it will be a key point of departure for future research. • Examines the Modernism of eight key anglophone Welsh writers - Gwyn Thomas, Glyn Jones, Idris Davies, David Jones, Lynette Roberts, Vernon Watkins, Dylan Thomas and Rhys Davies.