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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778060503321

Autore

Roberts Harri Garrod

Titolo

Embodying identity : representations of the body in Welsh literature / / Harri Garrod Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-7083-2237-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Writing Wales in English

CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies

Disciplina

820.99429

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Welsh literature - History and criticism

Human body in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Theorizing the Body; Class, Nation and Corporeality in the 1847 Blue Books 20Report; The Body and the Book: Caradoc Evans's My People; 'I give the Border': Margiad Evans and Wales; 'Beating on the jailing slab of the womb': The Alleged 90Immaturity of Dylan Thomas; '[W]hatever / I throw up now is still theirs': Abjection in 114R. S. Thomas's 'Poetry of Exile'; Horror and Wonder: Glyn Jones's The Valley, the City, 136the Village and Niall Griffiths's Grits; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since the time of Freud, some of the most radical innovators within critical theory have stressed the importance of the body and its representation to the constitution of subjectivity. This book explores some of the theoretical debates surrounding the body, and assesses its value as a critical concept, through an analysis of the body's representation both in Welsh literary texts in English, and discourse about Wales more generally.