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  • John Ormond’s Organic Mosaic

    Poetry, Documentary, Nation

    de Kieron Smith ...
    Series series Writing Wales in English
    In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking. Born in Swansea, he learned to ‘think in terms of pictures’ while working as a journalist in London, where he secured a job at the celebrated photojournalist magazine Picture Post. Employed later by the BBC in Cardiff during the early days ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Welsh Way

    Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution

    Edición de Dan Evans, Kieron Smith, Huw Williams ...
    This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radical and transformational. A call for a political engagement that will create real opportunity for change. Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has reached epidemic levels: the worst in the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas

    “A writer of words, and nothing else”?

    Edición de Rhian Barfoot, Kieron Smith ...
    Series series Writing Wales in English
    Dylan Thomas’s reputation precedes him. In keeping with his claim that he held ‘a beast, an angel, and a madman in him’, interpretations of his work have ranged from solemn adoration to exaggerated mythologising. His many voices continue to reverberate across culture and the arts: from poetry and letters, to popular music and Hollywood film. However, this wide and sometimes controversial renown ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Down Syndrome

    de Kieron Smith ...
    Are we a more accepting society than ever before? Is there no longer a them and us division between the disabled and everybody else? The Politics of Down Syndrome looks at how we got to where we are today, from the racist roots of its identification to the rising number of abortions today. Down syndrome is the most common syndrome in the world, shared by all classes and races, yet it's one we ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

    Edición de Victoria Rosner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Twentieth Century in Poetry

    de Peter Childs ...
    Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

    Edición de Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton ...
    The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

    Edición de Neil Corcoran ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

    Edición de Matthew Campbell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • 1956 and All That

    The Making of Modern British Drama

    de Dan Rebellato ...
    It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?In this bold and fascinating challenge to the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • A History of the Irish Short Story

    de Heather Ingman ...
    Though the short story is often regarded as central to the Irish canon, this text was the first comprehensive study of the genre for many years. Heather Ingman traces the development of the modern short story in Ireland from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Her study analyses the material circumstances surrounding publication, examining the role of magazines and editors ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

    de Tim Youngs ...
    Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD