Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory
re-reading of Edward Thomas. Adapting Pascale Casanova s vision of
world literature as a system of competing national traditions, this
study analyses Thomas s appropriation of Anglocentric British literary
culture at key moments of historical crisis in the twentieth century:
after the First World War, either side of the Second World War, and
with the resumption of war in Ireland in the 1970s. It shows how the
dominant assumptions underpinning the discipline of English Literature
marginalise the Welshness of Thomas s work, before combining this
revised world literature model with fresh archival research to reveal
how Thomas s reading of Welsh culture its barddas, folk and literary
traditions is central both to his creation of an innovative body of
poetry and to his extensive, and relatively neglected, prose. This
study is groundbreaking in its contribution to recent debates about
devolution and independence for Britain's constituent nations.
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ISBN
9781783162833
Publisert
2015
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University of Wales Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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