Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The critical fates of Dylan Thomas
- Chapter 1 ‘Eggs laid by tigers’: process and the politics of mannerist modernism
- Chapter 2 ‘Under the spelling wall’: language and style
- Chapter 3 ‘Libidinous betrayal’: body-mind, sex and gender
- Chapter 4 ‘My jack of Christ’: hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism
- Chapter 5 ‘Near and fire neighbours’: war, apocalypse and elegy
- Chapter 6 ‘That country kind’: Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style
- Conclusion: ‘The liquid choirs of his tribes’: Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The critical fates of Dylan Thomas
- Chapter 1 ‘Eggs laid by tigers’: process and the politics of mannerist modernism
- Chapter 2 ‘Under the spelling wall’: language and style
- Chapter 3 ‘Libidinous betrayal’: body-mind, sex and gender
- Chapter 4 ‘My jack of Christ’: hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism
- Chapter 5 ‘Near and fire neighbours’: war, apocalypse and elegy
- Chapter 6 ‘That country kind’: Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style
- Conclusion: ‘The liquid choirs of his tribes’: Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Poetry of Dylan ThomasUnder the Spelling Wall, pp. i - ivPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013