The Island of Apples
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1998
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-0-7083-1176-9 (ISBN)
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-0-7083-1176-9 (ISBN)
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Glyn Jones is a renowned Welsh poet, his handling of words and imagery is dazzling. In this novel we have also a story with an exciting accelerating plot, with an eminently readable narrative. The Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth century. Also a sophisticated philosophic artefact which explores the relationship between vision and reality in general terms and through the heightened experience of their conflict and confusion in a boy on the margin between adulthood and the `dying' of parents and childhood. In her introduction, Belinda Humfrey analyses and characterizes the novel; interprets some of its mysteries (beginning with the title), and places it within a twentieth century and larger literary context. She takes account of the novel's critical history and Glyn Jones's perception of it; and she makes use of his manuscript drafts and working notebooks.
Belinda Humfrey, formerly head of English at the University of Wales, Lampeter, is the author of John Cowper Powys's 'Wolf Solent': Critical Studies and many articles on the creative process, as well as the editor of The Powys Review. Glyn Jones was a Welsh poet, novelist and literary historian. He served as Chairman and President of the Welsh Academy's English language section.
Einführung | Belinda Humfrey |
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Zusatzinfo | No |
Verlagsort | Wales |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
ISBN-10 | 0-7083-1176-8 / 0708311768 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7083-1176-9 / 9780708311769 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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