The Dragon Has Two Tongues

The Dragon Has Two Tongues
Author: Glyn Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786833123

First published in 1968, The Dragon Has Two Tongues was the first book-length study of the English-language literature of Wales. Glyn Jones (1905–95) was one of Wales’s major English-language writers of fiction and poetry, and the book includes chapters dealing with the work of Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Idris Davies, all of whom the author knew personally. This first-hand knowledge of the writers, coupled with the shrewdness of Glyn Jones’s critical comments, established The Dragon Has Two Tongues as a classic and invaluable study of this generation of Welsh writers. It also contains Glyn Jones’s own autobiographical reflections on his life and literary career, his loss and rediscovery of the Welsh language, and the cultural shifts that resulted in the emergence of a distinctive English-language literature in Wales in the early decades of the twentieth century. This edition of The Dragon Has Two Tongues was edited by Tony Brown, who discussed the book with Glyn Jones before his death in 1995 with unique access to the author’s proposed revisions and manuscript drafts, and it was first published by the University of Wales Press in 2001.

English Is a Welsh Language - Television's Crisis in Wales

English Is a Welsh Language - Television's Crisis in Wales
Author: Geraint Talfan Davies
Publisher: Institute of Welsh Affairs
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009
Genre: Television broadcasting
ISBN: 1904773427

17 personal statements by people who have contributed to broadcasting in English for Wales. As the UK government decides on the future of public service broadcasting, this book reminds us that television's mirror to the Welsh nation must not be further clouded, let alone discarded.

Building the Nation

Building the Nation
Author: John Osmond
Publisher: Institute of Welsh Affairs
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781904773214

Discusses the Welsh Referendums, and argues that in the decade following 1979 political & economic forces came together to underpin the emergence of a Welsh political nation.

Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales

Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales
Author: Bud B. Khleif
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110808730

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

The Poetry of Dylan Thomas

The Poetry of Dylan Thomas
Author: John Goodby
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1846319943

An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.

The Centenary EditionRaymond Williams

The Centenary EditionRaymond Williams
Author: Raymond Williams
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2021-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786837072

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

New Territories in Modernism
Author: Laura Wainwright
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786832186

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.

New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas

New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas
Author: Rhian Barfoot
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786835223

1. The book is in keeping with contemporary developments in literary criticism and interpretation. 2. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive critical overview of Thomas’s entire output. 3. It provides exciting new commentaries on cultural appropriations and interpretations of Thomas in the media, letters, and popular culture. 4. It contains work by some of the leading voices in the fields of Thomas studies and Welsh Writing in English. 5. It offers key insights into the Welsh contexts of Thomas’s work and legacy.

The Politics of Contested Narratives

The Politics of Contested Narratives
Author: Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317615409

The twentieth century in Europe was characterized by great moments of rupture, such as two world wars, ideological conflict, and political polarization. In these processes, as well as in the historical writing that followed in its wake, the individual as an historical entity often appeared crushed. In line with contemporary theories about the precariousness of historical writing and the self, this volume seeks to understand the important developments in modern Europe from the perspective of the single, sometimes isolated, but always original viewpoint of individuals inhabiting the space at the other side of the traditional grand narratives. Including theoretical chapters as well as detailed case studies, this volume takes a biographical approach to dystopian events—the Holocaust, Fascism, Communism, and collectivization—by starting with the voices of unknown historical actors and relating their experiences to larger processes in modern European history, such as the emergence of the national, collective memory, and state formation, as well as changes in the understanding of modern identities and the (re)formulation of the self. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.