Internal Difference: Literature in Twentieth-century Wales

Internal Difference: Literature in Twentieth-century Wales

by M . Wynn Thomas (Editor)

Synopsis

Thomas (English, U. College, Swansea, Wales) focuses on Welsh literature written in English during the 20th century, to illustrate the divergent, and often clashing, views of modern Wales and Welsh identity. His comparisons put some strange fellows in the same bed: Alun Lewis and Alun Llywelyn-Willi

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 196
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 20 Jul 1992

ISBN 10: 0708311520
ISBN 13: 9780708311523

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This is the first book I know to offer a reasoned view of why Anglo-Welsh literature is distinct, how it reflects a situation different from and possibly more complex than that of England, and how it is diverging more and more from the Welsh-language culture with which it once ran in harness. -Tony Conran, Year's Work in English Studies
Author Bio
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 the author of twenty books on the two literatures of Wales and on American poetry.