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Edited by Edward Allen, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: June 2021
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781474411561

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory

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Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Plate Section

Introduction: Beyond Milk Wood
pp 1-12

I - Bodies and Selves
pp 13-14

1 - Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
pp 15-35

2 - Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
pp 36-48

3 - Staircases, Fires; Bombs, Milk, Wombs, Wax, Hangmen, Sleep, Rabbits, Stew; a Mars Bar, Pin-Points; Lovely Peaches
pp 49-70

4 - Dylan Thomas: ‘On out of Sound’
pp 71-88

II - Science and Media
pp 89-90

5 - ‘Lamp-Posts and High-Volted Fruits’: Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas
pp 91-109

6 - Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service
pp 110-137

7 - Film, Gramophones and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts
pp 138-154

III - Confluences and Influences
pp 155-156

8 - Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas
pp 157-178

9 - ‘The verticals of Adam’: Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism
pp 179-196

10 - Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: ‘a kind of Secret, but Powerful, Leaven’
pp 197-214

11 - Fine contrary excess’: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Thomas’s Northern Irish Afterlives
pp 215-232

About Time: A Modernist Coda for Thomas
pp 233-240

Index
pp 241-252

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