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Dantean Journeys: The Motif of Meeting the Dead in Modern Poetry ...
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R.S. Thomas and the Problem of Welsh Identity ...
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One aspect of R.S. Thomas’s work which is perhaps most difficult for Americans to fathom is his relation to Welsh nationalism. This rather arcane issue is complicated even further by the fact that Thomas is an Anglo-Welsh poet, indeed the guiding spirit of what is known as the Anglo-Welsh movement. Tony Bianchi has called Thomas “the dominant voice in the attempt by Anglo-Welsh writers to define an audience.” Throughout his career, Thomas has been faced with the difficult choice of writing poetry in what he considers a foreign language, or committing creative suicide. Having been born in “the capital of a fake nation” (The Echoes Return Slow 4), that is, Cardiff in English speaking southern Wales, Thomas did not learn Welsh until he was thirty, too late for it to be of use for poetry (Selected Prose 182). The resultant tensions in his work are sometimes overlooked by English critics, who would rather welcome Thomas as a distinguished “colonial” contributor to their own literature, and who thus concentrate ...
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Colonial literature; Eliot, T. S. Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965; Gunboat linguistics; Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Thomas, R. S. Ronald Stuart, 1913-2000; Welsh nationalism; Welsh poetry
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t3cn772h https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/esploro/outputs/conferencePaper/991031550047504646
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Doing Other Things with Texts: The Use of Electronic Resources in Revising the OED ...
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Raising the Titanic: Prospects for Reviving the Century Dictionary ...
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The Legacy of Babel: Language in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion
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