Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare

Critical Essays to Mark the Centenary of the Writer's Birth

Golygydd(ion) Meic Stephens

Iaith: Saesneg

Dosbarthiad(au): Welsh Interest

  • Hydref 2001 · 240 tudalen ·216x138mm

  • · Clawr Meddal - 9780708316948

Am y llyfr

Casgliad o 17 o draethodau a gyhoeddwyd i nodi canmlwyddiant geni Rhys Davies (1901-1978), yn cynnig astudiaeth gynhwysfawr o waith un o lenorion rhyddiaith mwyaf toreithiog Cymru yn yr iaith Saesneg.

Dyfyniadau

'...this volume offers a rich variety of critical approaches to the work a writer of undeniable importance to Anglo-Welsh literature...an engaging and lively critical contribution to Welsh writing in English.' New Welsh Review

Cynnwys

Meic Stephens [Glamorgan] Introduction Dai Smith [BBC Wales] Rhys Davies and his 'Turbulent Valley' Michael J. Dixon [postgrad, Glamorgan] The Epic Rhondda: Romanticism and Realism in the Rhondda Trilogy Stephen Knight [Professor of English, Cardiff] 'Not a Place for Me': Rhys Davies's Fiction and the Coal Industry Tony Brown [Bangor] 'The Memory of Lost Countries': Rhys Davies's Wales Daniel Williams [Swansea] Withered Roots: Ideas of Race in the Work of Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence Barbara Prys-Williams [postgrad, Swansea] Rhys Davies as Autobiographer: Hare or Houdini? D. A. Callard [-] 'One rainy Sunday afternoon...' J. Lawrence Mitchell [Professor of English, Texas A&M University] 'I wish I had a Trumpet': Rhys Davies and the Creative Impulse Linden Peach [Professor of English, Loughborough University] Eccentricity and Lawlessness in the Stories of Rhys Davies Jeff Wallace [Glamorgan] Lawrentianisms: Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence James A. Davies [formerly Swansea] 'Love and the need of it': Three Novels Katie Gramich [Open University] The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies Jane Aaron [Professor of English, Glamorgan] Daughters of Darkness: Rhys Davies's Revenge Tragedies Kirsti Bohata [postgrad, Swansea] The Black Venus Simon Baker and Joanna Furber [Swansea, SB is Lecturer, JF is postgrad] 'Unspeakable Rites': Writing the Unspeakable M. Wynn Thomas [Professor of English, Swansea] 'Never seek to tell thy love': Rhys Davies's Fiction

Cyflwyno'r Golygydd(ion)

Awdur(on): Meic Stephens

Mae Meic Stephens yn awdur, yn olygydd ac yn newyddiadurwr ar ei liwt ei hun. Ymhlith y cyfeirlyfrau a luniwyd ac a olygwyd ganddo y mae The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986), ac A Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1990). Mae hefyd yn gyd-olygydd ar y gyfres Writers of Wales.

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