Quarreling with the Outside Weathers: Dylan Thomas and Surrealism
This essay challenges the traditional readings of Dylan Thomas. Rather than figuring Thomas as a regional romantic, a bardic other to modernism and the Audenesque, it focuses upon the modernist and particularly surrealist elements in his work. It considers in detail a number of poems that deal with...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
1999-12-01
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| Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
| Online Access: | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/11257 |
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| Summary: | This essay challenges the traditional readings of Dylan Thomas. Rather than figuring Thomas as a regional romantic, a bardic other to modernism and the Audenesque, it focuses upon the modernist and particularly surrealist elements in his work. It considers in detail a number of poems that deal with the limitations of representation and language in order to suggest that Thomas may be read in a more complex way than has hitherto been the case. It asks that surrealism be recognized as a politicized aesthetic response to crises of the period, and calls for a rethinking of the work of Dylan Thomas in the light of those newer theoretical responses that have emerged since his death.
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| ISSN: | 1137-6368 2386-4834 |