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Wales Unchained

Daniel G. Williams
Wales Unchained Book PDF

Author : Daniel G. Williams
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783162130

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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.

Wales Unchained

Daniel G Williams
Wales Unchained Book PDF

Author : Daniel G Williams
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783162147

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Wales Unchained by Daniel G Williams Pdf

Contributes to the fields of Welsh Studies, Comparative Studies, Transatlantic Studies Offers analyses of key chapters in the cultural making of modern Wales. Offers insights into national and ethnic identity, and encourages readers to consider the extent of Welsh tolerance and intolerance. Draws on Welsh and English language sources, and ranges across literature, history, music and political thought. The book is an example of Welsh cultural studies in action. The book intervenes in key debates within cultural studies: nationalism and assimilationism; language and race; class and identity; cultural identity and political citizenship

Performing Wales

Lisa Lewis
Performing Wales Book PDF

Author : Lisa Lewis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786832436

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Performing Wales by Lisa Lewis Pdf

This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.

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 : 47,5 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.

Between Wales and England

Bethan Jenkins
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Author : Bethan Jenkins
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786830319

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Between Wales and England by Bethan Jenkins Pdf

Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in many cases to be more nuanced and less resistant than has generally been considered. It looks primarily at the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in the context of both their Welsh- and English-language influences and time spent travelling between the two countries, considering how these authors responded to and reimagined the new national identity through their poetry and prose.

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 : 45,6 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.

The Nations of Wales

M. Wynn Thomas
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Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783168392

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The Nations of Wales by M. Wynn Thomas Pdf

Certain simple and stereotypical images of Wales strike an immediate chord with the public, both in Wales itself and beyond its borders. For much of the twentieth century, the country was thought of as ‘The Valleys’, a land of miners and choirs and rugby clubs. This image of a ‘Proletarian Wales’ (with its attendant Socialist politics) dominated popular imagination, just as the image of ‘Nonconformist Wales’ – a Wales of chapels and of a grimly puritan society – had gripped the imagination of the High Victorian era. But what of the Wales of the late Victorian and Edwardian decades? What image of Wales prevailed at that time of revolutionary social, economic, cultural, religious and political change? This book argues that several competing images of Welshness were put in circulation during that time, and proceeds to examine several of the most influential of these as they took the form of literary texts.

Women, Identity and Religion in Wales

Manon Ceridwen James
Women Identity and Religion in Wales Book PDF

Author : Manon Ceridwen James
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786831941

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Women, Identity and Religion in Wales by Manon Ceridwen James Pdf

Women, Identity and Religion in Wales is the first comprehensive study of its kind from a present-day perspective. It brings significant and original insights to an understanding of Welsh identity and religion, as well as exploring the distinctive pressures that women in Wales face in their everyday lives. The author provides a qualitatively rich account of the religious and sociological context and interweaves her own experience with that of a number of Welsh women writers, including Menna Elfyn, Jasmine Donahaye and Mererid Hopwood, to offer an in-depth understanding of the dynamic interplay between Welsh female identity and religion. At the heart of the book are conversations with thirteen other women whose lives and experiences reveal how women facing misogyny, repression and stigmatisation are able to respond with resilience and humour. The author concludes that Welsh women have an empowering stereotype, the Strong Woman, and are constructing new identities for themselves beyond the pressures to be respectable and submissive.

Two Rivers from a Common Spring: The Books Council of Wales at 60

Helgard Krause,M Wynn Thomas,Lisa Sheppard,Eirian James,Bethan Hughes
Two Rivers from a Common Spring The Books Council of Wales at 60 Book PDF

Author : Helgard Krause,M Wynn Thomas,Lisa Sheppard,Eirian James,Bethan Hughes
Publisher : Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781914981043

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Two Rivers from a Common Spring: The Books Council of Wales at 60 by Helgard Krause,M Wynn Thomas,Lisa Sheppard,Eirian James,Bethan Hughes Pdf

A volume celebrating sixty years since the establishment of the Books Council of Wales, comprising sixteen chapters by various scholars and contributors in the field. A Welsh companion volume is available: O'r Hedyn i'r Ddalen (9781914981036).

Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World

Stephen Woodhams,Elizabeth Allen,Derek Tatton,Hywel Dix
Raymond Williams From Wales to the World Book PDF

Author : Stephen Woodhams,Elizabeth Allen,Derek Tatton,Hywel Dix
Publisher : Parthian Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913640934

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Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World by Stephen Woodhams,Elizabeth Allen,Derek Tatton,Hywel Dix Pdf

Raymond Williams came from Wales, and was brought up in a working-class family. These facts of place and class are the start of a thread which runs throughout his life and work. In Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World his writing, whether theoretical, historical, critical or as fiction has been treated as a single whole, recognising that his ideas were interwoven as a literary and intellectual engagement with Wales and the world over several decades. This collection of essays, edited by Stephen Woodhams, serves to further engage and extend his ideas of class and society.

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 : 51,8 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.

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature Book PDF

Author : Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107106765

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The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature by Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton Pdf

This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

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 : 53,7 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.

The Centenary EditionRaymond Williams

Raymond Williams
The Centenary EditionRaymond Williams Book PDF

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786837073

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The Centenary EditionRaymond Williams by Raymond Williams Pdf

In the words of the philosopher Cornel West, Raymond Williams was ‘the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals’. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? (2003) was the first collection of Raymond Williams’s writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It appeared in the early years of Welsh political devolution and offered a historical and theoretical basis for thinking across the divisions of nationalism and socialism in Welsh thought. This new edition, marking the centenary of Williams’s birth, appears at a very different moment. After the Brexit referendum of 2016, it remains to be seen whether the writings collected in this volume document a vision of a ‘Europe of the peoples and nations’ that was never to be realised, or whether they become foundational texts in the rejuvenation and future fulfilment of that ‘Welsh-European’ vision. Raymond Williams noted that Welsh history testifies to a ‘quite extraordinary process of self-generation and regeneration, from what seemed impossible conditions.’ This Centenary edition was compiled with these words in mind.

New Territories in Modernism

Laura Wainwright
New Territories in Modernism Book PDF

Author : Laura Wainwright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786832184

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New Territories in Modernism by Laura Wainwright Pdf

Until very recently, Welsh literary Modernism has been critically neglected, both within and outside Wales. This is the first book devoted solely to the study of Welsh literary Modernism, revealing and examining eight key Anglophone Welsh writers. Laura Wainwright demonstrates how their linguistic experimentation constituted an engagement with the unprecedented linguistic, social and cultural changes that were the making of modern Wales, and formed the crucible for the emergence of a distinct Welsh Modernism. This study of Welsh Modernism challenges conventional literary histories and, in more than one sense, takes Modernism and Modernist studies into new territories.