Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works
Adam Naming and Aesop Fabling
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1996
- Category
- General, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773565418
- Publish Date
- Jan 1996
- List Price
- $110.00
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Through an analysis of the artist figures in Thomas's early experimental prose, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade, and Under Milk Wood, Mayer illustrates that he was continually exploring and re-evaluating his vocation, the nature of his chosen medium, and the world itself. Mayer links Thomas's prose works to his poetry through the blending of lyric and narrative strategies. As well, she examines Thomas's self-conscious concerns about his relationship to his modernist contemporaries. Mayer goes beyond the traditional New Critical approaches that dominate Thomas scholarship and uses contemporary critical theory to offer new insights into the complexity and ambiguity of a major twentieth-century writer.
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"Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works is an excellent piece of work. Mayer's welcome study offers an overall guide to Dylan Thomas's prose via the motif that most centrally controls it." Walford Davies, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth.