Almanac 13

Featuring research by some of established critics in the field of Welsh writing in English, this title aims to engage in an informed way both with the Welsh literary past and with contemporary writing, looking outwards and towards the future.

Autorentext
Dr Katie Gramich is a senior lecturer in English at Cardiff University, Wales, and she has held academic posts at the University of Wales, Swansea; Portsmouth University; Trinity College in Carmarthen; and the Open University. She is currently Chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English and co-editor of the Honno Classics series. Her research interests are in the literature of Wales in both languages, women's writing, post-colonial and translation studies.

Zusammenfassung
Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English is a stimulating academic journal featuring new research by established and emerging critics in the field. Almanac aims to engage in a lively and informed way both with the Welsh literary past and with contemporary writing, looking towards the future and outwards towards the rest of the world.This edition includes two incisive and innovative essays on the towering figure in modern Anglophone Welsh poetry, R. S. Thomas, relating his work to that of W. B. Yeats and to Irish writing generally. It also offers important new critical evaluations of unjustifiably neglected literary figures, namely Hilda Vaughan, William Emrys Williams and Nigel Heseltine. The science fiction of the Welsh-language writer, Islwyn Ffowc Elis, is subjected to probing analysis, while the turn-of-the-century London-Welsh magazine, The London Kelt, reveals much about the construction of Wales in exile. Finally, the early issues of Poetry Wales are found to be more international in outlook than previously assumed. The edition also includes the indispensible annual bibliography of criticism in the field. All in all, Almanac continues with its mission to engage with and stimulate its readers with a range of thought-provoking and illuminating new material.

Inhalt

1 Dialogues of Self and Soul: The Autobiographies of W.B. Yeatsand R.S. Thomas by Neal Alexander2 'A Poet At Last': William H. Davies and Edward Thomasby Judy Kendall3 'The huge upright Europe-reflecting mirror': The EuropeanDimension in the Early Short Stories and Poems of Glyn Jonesby Laura Wainwright4 Glyn Jones and the Uncanny by Tony Brown5 "I want to know what is - behind all of them books...":Images of Education in Early 20th century Welsh Writingin English by Alyce von Rothkirch6 The Pastoral Vision of R. S. Thomas by Sam Perry7 From 'Black Water' to 'Border Country': Sourcing the TextualOdyssey of Raymond Williams by Dai Smith8 'What a fine body of men they are!': Class, Gender and Sexualityin the Authorial Identity of Rhys Davies by Huw Osborne