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All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas
M. Wynn Thomas
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Description for All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas
Paperback. A collection of essays on a range of Welsh writers, both well-known and otherwise, by one of the leading specialists in the anglophone literary culture of Wales. Series: Writing Wales in English. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. To that end, the author's examined range - from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as `Margiad Evans', to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out ... Read more
Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. To that end, the author's examined range - from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as `Margiad Evans', to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Writing Wales in English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786830890
SKU
V9781786830890
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About M. Wynn Thomas
M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Learned Society of Wales, and the author of twenty books on the two literatures of Wales and on American poetry.
Reviews for All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas
'In a characteristically generous and discerning collection of essays, M. Wynn Thomas ranges widely through Welsh writing in English, displaying in the process his marvellous command of language. This is criticism at its best, as sociable as it is perceptive.'- Catherine Belsey, Professor Emeritus in English, Swansea University; 'M. Wynn Thomas is more than just Wales's finest and most perceptive ... Read more