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J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics

Alyce von Rothkirch
J O Francis Realist Drama and Ethics Book PDF

Author : Alyce von Rothkirch
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783162024

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J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics by Alyce von Rothkirch Pdf

This book rediscovers and re-evaluates the work of the Welsh dramatist J. O. Francis (1882–1954) and his contribution to the development of Welsh drama in the twentieth century. More than a prize-winning dramatist, whose plays were performed all over the world, Francis can also be described as one of the founding fathers of modern Welsh drama, whose work has helped establish theatrical realism on the Welsh stage. His creative non-fiction for the popular press and for radio gives a unique perspective on how Wales was seen through the eyes of a perceptive London-Welsh observer. Using much previously unpublished material, this volume is an excellent introduction to one of Wales’s foremost dramatists, and is innovative in the way that it creates a picture of the amateur dramatic scene of south Wales (1920–40) based on sound statistical analysis of available evidence. It situates Francis’s work in its cultural context and brings this exciting period in Welsh cultural history to life in its introduction to a new audience.

Theatre with a Purpose

Don Watson
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Author : Don Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350232068

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Theatre with a Purpose by Don Watson Pdf

This study of British amateur theatre in the inter-war period examines five different but interwoven examples of the belief, common in theatrical and educational circles at the time, that amateur drama had a purpose beyond recreation. Amateur theatre was at the height of its popularity as a cultural practice between the wars, so that by 1939 more British people had practical experience of putting on plays than at any time before or since. Providing an original account of the use of drama in adult education projects in deprived areas, and of amateur theatre in government-funded centres for the unemployed in the 1930s, it discusses repertoires, participation by working- class people and pioneering techniques of play-making. Amateur drama festivals and competitions were intended to raise standards and educate audiences. This book assesses their effect on play-making, and the use of innovative one-act plays to express contentious material, as well as looking at the Left Book Club Theatre Guild as an attempt to align the amateur theatre movement with anti-fascist and anti-war movements. A chapter on the Second World War rectifies the neglect of amateur theatre in war-time cultural studies, arguing that it was present and important in every aspect of war-time life. Don Watson builds on current scholarship and makes use of archival sources, local newspapers, unpublished scripts and the records of organizations not usually associated with the theatre. His work explores the range and diversity of amateur drama between the wars and the contributions it made to British theatre.

Wales in England, 1914-1945

Wendy Ugolini
Wales in England 1914 1945 Book PDF

Author : Wendy Ugolini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198863274

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Wales in England, 1914-1945 by Wendy Ugolini Pdf

The first cultural history of English Welsh duality - an identification with two constituent nations at once - that explores how 'Welshness' was imagined, performed, and mobilised in England during and between the two world wars.

Fight and Flight

Georgia Burdett,Sarah Morse
Fight and Flight Book PDF

Author : Georgia Burdett,Sarah Morse
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835291

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Fight and Flight by Georgia Burdett,Sarah Morse Pdf

Ron Berry (1920–97) is one of the most remarkably astute yet relatively neglected twentieth-century Rhondda writers. An avid walker, birdwatcher, ‘potcher’, sportsman and miner, Berry is the product of a distinctive Rhondda landscape; the formidable peaks of Pen Pych and Cefn Nant y Gwair were to be a continuing source of inspiration for him in his writing. His idiosyncratic viewpoints, of which there are many, are reflected in both his memoir and fiction. As the first sustained critical study of his work, this collection seeks a literal, physical and chronological ‘zooming-outwards’, from the man himself to the personal and literary geographies and communities in which he was posited, to his creative legacy.

The Nations of Wales

M. Wynn Thomas
The Nations of Wales Book PDF

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783168408

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The Nations of Wales by M. Wynn Thomas Pdf

Opens up a period in Welsh cultural history that has been almost completely overlooked First monograph to explore Welsh history between 1890-1914

Compatriots Or Competitors?

Hywel Dix
Compatriots Or Competitors Book PDF

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839350

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Compatriots Or Competitors? by Hywel Dix Pdf

This is the first comparative study of the distinctive literatures and cultures that have developed in Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland since political devolution in the late 1990s, especially surrounding Brexit. The book argues that in conceptualising their cultures as 'national', each nation is caught up in a creative tension between emulating forms of cultural production found in the others to assert common aspirations, and downplaying those connections in order to forge a sense of cultural distinctiveness. The author explores the resulting dilemmas, with chapters analysing the growth of the creative industries; the relationship between UK City of Culture and its forerunner, the European Capital of Culture; national book prizes in Britain and Europe; British variations on Nordic Noir TV; and the Brexit novel. With regard to separate cultural precursors and responses in each nation, Brexit itself is debated as a factor that has widened their differences, placing the future of the UK in question.

Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing

Linden Peach
Pacifism Peace and Modern Welsh Writing Book PDF

Author : Linden Peach
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786834041

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Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing by Linden Peach Pdf

This book introduces the contribution of modern Welsh literature to our understanding of peace and pacifism – an important and much overlooked subject in Welsh studies. Taking a literary-historical approach to the subject, it reveals how modern Welsh writing opens up history in ways in which historical discourse alone sometimes fails to do. It argues that the concepts of peace, peacefulness and pacifism have played a broader and more complex role in Welsh life than has been recognised, primarily through an influential Welsh-language pacifist intelligentsia. The author reminds us that Welsh pacifism is distinguished from English pacifism by the Welsh language itself, its links with Welsh nationalism and by the fact that it faced challenges and pressures never encountered by English pacifism. Authors discussed in this study include Tony Curtis, George M. Ll. Davies, Pennar Davies, John Eilian, Emyr Humphreys, Glyn Jones, D. Gwenallt Jones, T. Gwynn Jones, T. E. Nicholas, Iorwerth C. Peate, Angharad Price, Ned Thomas, Lily Tobas and Waldo Williams.

Liberating Dylan Thomas

Rhian Barfoot
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Author : Rhian Barfoot
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783161850

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Liberating Dylan Thomas by Rhian Barfoot Pdf

The book attempts, for the first time, to demonstrate a vital connection between Thomas’s poetry and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This will benefit readers by helping shed new and illuminating light on the writing and will help close the gap that sadly still exists between Thomas’s critical and popular receptions. Close textual analysis of poems that have to date received only scant critical attention e.g. ‘Today this insect’ The Notebooks have received only scant critical attention, and have been subordinated to a purely minor role. Here, however the Notebooks are re-visited and re-evaluated, because the text of these four manuscript exercise books, provides us with a highly significant and revealing document.

R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams

M. Wynn Thomas
R S Thomas to Rowan Williams Book PDF

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839480

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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams by M. Wynn Thomas Pdf

This study places the internationally renowned poetry of two major figures, R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams, in a new and illuminating context. It demonstrates how theological convictions are embodied in the very form and texture of poems. The book draws attention to a cultural phenomenon of European resonance, because it runs counter to established secular practice in the UK, in Western Europe and in the US.

Owen Rhoscomyl

John S. Ellis
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Author : John S. Ellis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783169504

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Owen Rhoscomyl by John S. Ellis Pdf

Around the turn of the century, Welsh readers thrilled to the heroic stories of Owen Rhoscomyl. Having been a cowboy, frontiersman, soldier and mercenary, Rhoscomyl was as adventurous and exotic as his stories. Roving the wilds of the American West, Patagonia and South Africa before finally settling in Wales, Rhoscomyl was a flawed hero who led a rough life that exacted a personal price in poverty, delinquency and violence. He identified deeply with the Welsh nation as a source of tradition, legitimacy and belonging within a wider imperial world. As a popular commercial writer of historical romance, imperial adventure, popular history and public spectacle, he rejected accusations of national inferiority, effeminacy and defeatism in his depictions of the Welsh as an inherently masculine and martial people, accustomed to the rugged conditions of the frontier, ready to advance the glory of their nation and eager to lead the British imperial enterprise. This literary biography will explore the vaulting ambitions, real achievements, and bitter disappointments of the life, work and milieu of Owen Rhoscomyl.

New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas

Rhian Barfoot,Kieron Smith
New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas Book PDF

Author : Rhian Barfoot,Kieron Smith
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835215

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New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas by Rhian Barfoot,Kieron Smith Pdf

Dylan Thomas’s reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held ‘a beast, an angel, and a madman in him’, interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to exaggerated mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate across culture and the arts: from poetry and letters, to popular music and Hollywood film. However, this wide and sometimes controversial renown has occasionally hindered serious analysis of his writing. Counterbalancing the often-misleading popular reputation, this book showcases eight new critical perspectives on Thomas’s work. It is the first to provide in one volume a critical overview of the multifaceted range of his output, from the poetry, prose and correspondence to his work for wartime propaganda filmmaking, his late play for voices Under Milk Wood, and his reputation in letters and wider society. The whole proves that Thomas was much more than, to use his own dubious self-description, 'a writer of words, and nothing else’.

John Ormonds Organic Mosaic

Kieron Smith
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Author : Kieron Smith
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786834898

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John Ormonds Organic Mosaic by Kieron Smith Pdf

In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking. Born in Swansea, he learned to ‘think in terms of pictures’ while working as a journalist in London, where he secured a job at the celebrated photojournalist magazine Picture Post. Employed later by the BBC in Cardiff during the early days of television, Ormond went on to become a pioneer in documentary film. This book is the first in-depth examination of the fascinating correspondences between Ormond’s twin creative channels; viewing his work against the backdrop of a changing Wales, it constitutes an important case study in the history of documentary filmmaking, in the history of British television, and in the cultural history of Wales.

Wales Unchained

Daniel G. Williams
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Author : Daniel G. Williams
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783162130

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Wales Unchained by Daniel G. Williams Pdf

In Wales Unchained Daniel G. Williams explores how Welsh writers, politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves – and have been defined by others – since the early twentieth century. Whether by exploring ideas of race in the 1930s or reflecting on the metaphoric uses of boxing, asking what it means to inhabit the ‘American century’ or probing the linguistic bases of cultural identity, Williams writes with a rare blend of theoretical sophistication and accessible clarity. This book discusses Rhys Davies in relation to D. H. Lawrence, explores the simultaneous impact that Dylan Thomas and saxophonist Charlie Parker had on the Beat Generation in 1950s America, and juxtaposes the uses made of class and ethnicity in the thought of Aneurin Bevan and Paul Robeson. Transatlantic in scope and comparative in method, this book will engage readers interested in literature, politics, history and contemporary cultural debate.

All That Is Wales

M. Wynn Thomas
All That Is Wales Book PDF

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786830906

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All That Is Wales by M. Wynn Thomas Pdf

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 the bicultural character of Wales in his Welsh-English translations. The result is a portrait of Wales as a ‘micro-cosmopolitan country’, and the volume is prefaced with an autobiographical essay by one of the leading specialists in the field, authoritatively tracing the steady growth over recent decades of serious, informed and sustained study of what is a major achievement of Welsh culture.

Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture

Linden Peach
Animals Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture Book PDF

Author : Linden Peach
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839381

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Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture by Linden Peach Pdf

This pioneering study introduces readers to key themes from animal studies, as a frame within which it examines the representation of animals and animality in the work of a range of authors. In this new approach to animal studies, the concept of a relational universe that has emerged in recent natural and physical science is argued as being central. With fresh readings of Welsh literary and non-literary publications, including the Welsh press and Welsh-language manuals, the book explores relationships among animals and between humans and animals, to approach subjects such as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal perspective. The possibility of redrawing and reclaiming a history of rural and industrial Wales is suggested according to an animal history and agenda. This innovative contribution to Welsh and animal studies illuminates fascinating and controversial subjects, including animal domestication, captivity, communication, biopsychology, human exceptionalism, zoos and farming.