Author: Kirsti Bohata
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.
Rediscovering Margiad Evans
Author: Kirsti Bohata
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.
Rediscovering Margiad Evans
Author: Kirsti Bohata
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Margiad wrote about the elderly, about love between women, about elusive, enigmatic characters. She is renowned for her ability to depict place, yet she also makes place reflective of the emotional and spiritual lives of her characters and her own concerns as an artist. Evans was a border writer, concerned with cultural complexity and conflict characteristic of borderlands, but also filled with passion for the landscape of the borders and the many meanings, local and figurative; she effortlessly invests in the places she loved. Her life was transformed in later years by epilepsy, followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumour that lead to her early death, on the evening of her forty-ninth birthday, in 1958. Evans wrote A Ray of Darkness, an acclaimed autobiography about her experience of epilepsy, and as a result Margiad Evans is being ‘rediscovered’ by the medical community as it becomes more interested in patient experiences. This collection of essays assesses Evans’s extraordinary literary legacy, from her use of folktale and the gothic to the influence of her epilepsy on her creative work.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Margiad wrote about the elderly, about love between women, about elusive, enigmatic characters. She is renowned for her ability to depict place, yet she also makes place reflective of the emotional and spiritual lives of her characters and her own concerns as an artist. Evans was a border writer, concerned with cultural complexity and conflict characteristic of borderlands, but also filled with passion for the landscape of the borders and the many meanings, local and figurative; she effortlessly invests in the places she loved. Her life was transformed in later years by epilepsy, followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumour that lead to her early death, on the evening of her forty-ninth birthday, in 1958. Evans wrote A Ray of Darkness, an acclaimed autobiography about her experience of epilepsy, and as a result Margiad Evans is being ‘rediscovered’ by the medical community as it becomes more interested in patient experiences. This collection of essays assesses Evans’s extraordinary literary legacy, from her use of folktale and the gothic to the influence of her epilepsy on her creative work.
Autobiography [of] Margiad Evans
Author: Margiad Evans
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Pages : 192
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Margiad Evans
Author: Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, Margiad Evans was one of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth century. In this, the fullest study to date, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan draws on Margiad Evans's extensive personal and literary archives to offer a sympathetic and well-balanced criticism of this important writer.
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, Margiad Evans was one of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth century. In this, the fullest study to date, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan draws on Margiad Evans's extensive personal and literary archives to offer a sympathetic and well-balanced criticism of this important writer.
Margiad Evans
Author: Karen Caesar
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Languages : en
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Wales in England, 1914-1945
Author: Wendy Ugolini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192608371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural history of this English Welsh duality - an identification with two constituent nations at once - and explores how 'Welshness' was imagined, performed, and mobilised in England during and between the two world wars. In so doing, and making use of individual English Welsh case studies from the worlds of politics, art, literature, and soldiering, the book provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war. It shows English-Welsh duality to have been an important strand of pluralistic Britishness in wartime, and that this diasporic construction of Welshness held a wide urban appeal with significant implications for military enlistment, cultural production, and commemorative practices in England. Working at the intersection of war studies, British studies, and diaspora studies, Wales in England makes a significant contribution to 'four nations' history and the history of British society at war.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192608371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural history of this English Welsh duality - an identification with two constituent nations at once - and explores how 'Welshness' was imagined, performed, and mobilised in England during and between the two world wars. In so doing, and making use of individual English Welsh case studies from the worlds of politics, art, literature, and soldiering, the book provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war. It shows English-Welsh duality to have been an important strand of pluralistic Britishness in wartime, and that this diasporic construction of Welshness held a wide urban appeal with significant implications for military enlistment, cultural production, and commemorative practices in England. Working at the intersection of war studies, British studies, and diaspora studies, Wales in England makes a significant contribution to 'four nations' history and the history of British society at war.
All That Is Wales
Author: M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country’s internal diversity. To that end, the author’s examined range – from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as ‘Margiad Evans’, to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out the bicultural character of Wales in his Welsh-English translations. The result is a portrait of Wales as a ‘micro-cosmopolitan country’, and the volume is prefaced with an autobiographical essay by one of the leading specialists in the field, authoritatively tracing the steady growth over recent decades of serious, informed and sustained study of what is a major achievement of Welsh culture.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country’s internal diversity. To that end, the author’s examined range – from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as ‘Margiad Evans’, to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out the bicultural character of Wales in his Welsh-English translations. The result is a portrait of Wales as a ‘micro-cosmopolitan country’, and the volume is prefaced with an autobiographical essay by one of the leading specialists in the field, authoritatively tracing the steady growth over recent decades of serious, informed and sustained study of what is a major achievement of Welsh culture.
Queer Wales
Author: Huw Osborne
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178316865X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
it is a multidisciplinary collection of essays, it is the first book-length engagement with the subject of queer Wales, it covers period from the 18th century to the present, it considers literature, art history, film, television, drama, crime, motherhood, education, and a range of other questions across these categories.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178316865X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
it is a multidisciplinary collection of essays, it is the first book-length engagement with the subject of queer Wales, it covers period from the 18th century to the present, it considers literature, art history, film, television, drama, crime, motherhood, education, and a range of other questions across these categories.
A Tolerant Nation?
Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Combines historical and contemporary material. Draws on historical, sociological, cultural and literary approaches. Full revised and up-to-date edition of a classic book in the field. Covers the whole field in one volume.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Combines historical and contemporary material. Draws on historical, sociological, cultural and literary approaches. Full revised and up-to-date edition of a classic book in the field. Covers the whole field in one volume.
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
Author: Geraint Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.