In the Shadow of the Pulpit

Literature and Nonconformist Wales

Szerző: M. Wynn Thomas

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Wales Press

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Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of th...

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Szerző

M. Wynn Thomas

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2009

oldal

320

EAN

9780708322253

ISBN

0708322255

Enbook ID

04644692

Kiadó

University of Wales Press

Súly

508

Méretek

139 x 216 x 27

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Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

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