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"Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays" is an established and thriving journal which is the natural place for young scholars to submit new, cutting-edge research, while it also has the prestige to attract the big names in the field. This volume edited by Katie Gramich has more submissions of a comparative and interdisciplinary nature, as well as more international participation including some startling original research on Raymond Williams and innovative essays on Rhys Davies, Edward Thomas and Glyn Jones. 'Setting a new agenda and a new standard for literary criticism in Wales' - Dafydd Johnston, Professor of Welsh at Swansea University. 'Hearteningly unafraid of courting controversy' - Clare Morgan of Oxford University. 'Fill[ing] a huge gap ...I can't think how we ever did without it' - John Powell Ward, former editor of "Poetry Wales".
Contents
1 Dialogues of Self and Soul: The Autobiographies of W.B. Yeatsand R.S. Thomas by Neal Alexander2 'A Poet At Last': William H. Davies and Edward Thomasby Judy Kendall3 'The huge upright Europe-reflecting mirror': The EuropeanDimension in the Early Short Stories and Poems of Glyn Jonesby Laura Wainwright4 Glyn Jones and the Uncanny by Tony Brown5 "I want to know what is - behind all of them books...":Images of Education in Early 20th century Welsh Writingin English by Alyce von Rothkirch6 The Pastoral Vision of R. S. Thomas by Sam Perry7 From 'Black Water' to 'Border Country': Sourcing the TextualOdyssey of Raymond Williams by Dai Smith8 'What a fine body of men they are!': Class, Gender and Sexualityin the Authorial Identity of Rhys Davies by Huw Osborne
