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Welsh Writing in English

A Yearbook of Critical Essays

Editor(s) Tony Brown

Paperback - £6.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

March 2007 · 224 pages ·210x148mm

· Paperback - 9780708321096

A collection of critical essays by renowned scholars dealing with various aspects of literature, both poetry and prose, written in English in Wales during the 20th century, including discussions on the work of Christine Evans, R.S. Thomas, Caradoc Evans, and on literary subjects; it also includes a Bibliography of Criticism.

Ruth McElroy: "Circuiting Empire, Romancing Difference: Language, Imperialism, and Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Welsh Fictions." Harri Roberts: "The Body and the Book" Caradoc Evans's My People" M. Wynn Thomas: "'A Grand Harlequinade': The Border Writing of Nigel Heseltine" Rhian Davies: "Scarred Background: Nigel Heseltine (1916-1995), A Biographical Introduction and a Bibliography" Fflur Dafydd: "'This is I; there is nothing else': R. S. Thomas and Hugh MacDiarmid" William V. Davis: "Evidence of Things Not Seen: R. S. Thomas's Agnostic Faith" Malcolm Ballin: Welsh Periodicals in English: Second Aeon and Poetry Wales (1965-1985) Matthew Jarvis: "Christine Evans's Bardsey: Creating Sacred Space" Diane Green: "Welsh Writing in English: A Bibliography of Critics 2005"

Author(s): Tony Brown

Tony Brown is Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Research Centre and co-Director of the R.S. Thomas Study Centre at Bangor University. He has edited many books including The Collected Stories of Glyn Jones (UWP, 1999) and Glyn Jones's The Dragon Has Two Tongues (UWP 2001).