Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays on one of the 20th century's most popular yet critically neglected authors explores the full range of Dylan Thomas's work. It uses approaches--such as Marxism, feminism, and deconstruction--previously neglected by critics and focuses on his complex relationships with surrealism, modernism, Wales, popular culture, the US, and his own contemporaries. This book helps restore Thomas to his rightful place as a major 20th-century literary figure and cultural icon.
Table of Contents
Introduction: John Goodby and Chris Wigginton * "The Little Arisen Original Monster": Dylan Thomas's Sour Grapes--Stan Smith * The Lips of Time--Stwart Crehan * "Daughters of Darkness": Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female--Katie Gramich * "Birth and Copulation and Death": Gothic Modernism and Surregionalism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas--Chris Wigginton * The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Welsh Contexts, Narrative and the Language of Modernism--Walford Davies * "Death Is All Metaphor": Dylan Thomas's Radical Morbidity--Ivan Phillips * "Shot from the Locks": Poetry, Mourning,
Deaths and Entrances --Steve Vine * Question of Identity: The Movement and "Fern Hill"--James A. Davies * "Oh, for Our Vanished Youth": Avoiding Adulthood in the Later Stories of Dylan Thomas--Jeni Williams * "Very Profound and Very Box-Office": The Later Poems and
Under Milk Wood --John Goodby
Introduction: John Goodby and Chris Wigginton * "The Little Arisen Original Monster": Dylan Thomas's Sour Grapes--Stan Smith * The Lips of Time--Stwart Crehan * "Daughters of Darkness": Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female--Katie Gramich * "Birth and Copulation and Death": Gothic Modernism and Surregionalism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas--Chris Wigginton * The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Welsh Contexts, Narrative and the Language of Modernism--Walford Davies * "Death Is All Metaphor": Dylan Thomas's Radical Morbidity--Ivan Phillips * "Shot from the Locks": Poetry, Mourning, Deaths and Entrances --Steve Vine * Question of Identity: The Movement and "Fern Hill"--James A. Davies * "Oh, for Our Vanished Youth": Avoiding Adulthood in the Later Stories of Dylan Thomas--Jeni Williams * "Very Profound and Very Box-Office": The Later Poems and Under Milk Wood --John Goodby