Christopher Meredith
Seiten
2018
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-114-9 (ISBN)
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-114-9 (ISBN)
The first book-length study of the work of the bilingual Welsh poet and novelist Christopher Meredith, best-known for his depiction of post-industrial south-east Wales.
This is the first full-length study of the poet, novelist and translator Christopher Meredith, best-known for his novel Shifts (1988), the classic account of post-industrialisation in Wales. It draws on new material from interviews with Meredith to locate his writing in the context of his native south-east Wales. This locale, with its distinctive combination of rural and industrial and its fractured history, informs a concern with place, language and identity that runs through Meredith's work. Using chapters which pair his poetry and fiction in order to listen to the echoes between them, this study traces the development of his writing and illuminates the shared themes and concerns that connect his texts. Positioning his work in relation to wider critical discourses on the industrial novel and historical fiction, the book argues for Meredith's international significance as a major writer concerned with place and national identity.
This is the first full-length study of the poet, novelist and translator Christopher Meredith, best-known for his novel Shifts (1988), the classic account of post-industrialisation in Wales. It draws on new material from interviews with Meredith to locate his writing in the context of his native south-east Wales. This locale, with its distinctive combination of rural and industrial and its fractured history, informs a concern with place, language and identity that runs through Meredith's work. Using chapters which pair his poetry and fiction in order to listen to the echoes between them, this study traces the development of his writing and illuminates the shared themes and concerns that connect his texts. Positioning his work in relation to wider critical discourses on the industrial novel and historical fiction, the book argues for Meredith's international significance as a major writer concerned with place and national identity.
Diana Wallace is professor of English literature at the University of South Wales.
1.Introduction: A writer in his place
2.Working and writing in post-industrial Wales: This (1984) and Shifts (1988)
3.`Onlooker and participant': Snaring Heaven (1990) and Griffri (1991)
4.Space, place and time: Sidereal Time (1998) and The Meaning of Flight (2005)
5.`Edges are where meanings happen': The Book of Idiots (2012) and Air Histories (2013)
6.Afterword
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.02.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Yes |
| Verlagsort | Wales |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78683-114-7 / 1786831147 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78683-114-9 / 9781786831149 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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