Modernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Modernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas
By (Author) Chris Wigginton
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
10th January 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
821.91209
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
313g
Description
"Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers an inclusive and theoretical account of the engagement of both writers with the varieties of Modernism. It is the first reading at length of either MacNeice's or Thomas's work in the light of literary theory, and one of only a handful of texts to look at the writing of the 1930s in these terms. This book is an important contribution to contemporary discussions of both of these writers, and of the general issues of modernism, postmodernism, literary identity, and cultural identity it raises.
Author Bio
Chris Wigginton is Head of the School of English and Communication, Trinity College Carmarthen. He has co-edited, with John Goodby, the volume on Dylan Thomas in the New Casebook Series (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001)
