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The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys

Author : Linden Peach
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708324045
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys written by Linden Peach and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over half a century, Emyr Humphreys's work as a novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist and television producer has been extraordinarily impressive. This pioneering and stimulating book considers Humphreys's fiction from a range of contemporary critical perspectives and stresses its relevance to the 21st century. Drawing on the work of leading modern cultural and literary theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Homi Bhabha, psychoanalytic critics such as Melanie Klein and Jacqueline Rose, and gender theorists such as Judith Butler, Linden Peach brings fresh perspectives to the content, structure and developing nature of Humphreys's work, employing, for example, historicist, post-historicist, new geography, psychoanalytic and feminist and postfeminist frameworks. Through detailed readings which highlight subjects such as gender identity, contested masculinities, war, pacifism, strangeness and 'otherness', problematic father and daughter relationships, and cultural discourse in complex linguistic environments, Peach suggests that Humphreys's work is best understood as 'dramatic', 'dissident' and/or 'dilemma' fiction rather than by the term 'Protestant novelist' which Humphreys used to describe himself at the outset of his career. Stressing how Humphreys came to see himself as more of a 'protesting' novelist, Peach examines how the dilemmas around which his fiction is based, originally linked to Humphreys's definition of himself as a 'protestant' writer, increasingly become sites in which controversial, and often dark themes, are explored. This approach to Humphreys's work is pursued through exciting readings of some of Humphreys best and lesser known works including A Man's Estate, A Toy Epic, Outside the House of Baal, the Best of Friends, salt of the Earth, Unconditional Surrender, The Gift of a Daughter, Natives, Ghosts and Strangers, Old people are a Problem, The shop and The Woman at the Window.

Outside the House of Baal

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Seren Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outside the House of Baal written by Emyr Humphreys and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emyr Humphreys' classic novel J.T. Miles reflects on a life of mis-steps, over-ambition and betrayal. He contemplates the modern world (of which he feels no part), his attempts to bring about social change and his inability to pass on love. It has been a life of drama and defeat; a life mirroring the fate of his country in the twentieth century. New Edition.

Open Secrets

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708316269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Open Secrets written by Emyr Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 5th in a series, this work conveys the conflicts and passions of a small group of individuals in Wales, weighing them against the turmoil caused by war and its effects on a significantly changing Britain.

Emyr Humphreys

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832976
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Emyr Humphreys written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first overview of the long distinguished career of Wales’ leading Welsh-language novelist in its entirety. • A study of Emyr Humphreys who has had a remarkable career spanning over seventy years as a writer, he has published more than two dozen novels (many of them prize-winning), as well as several collection of short stories. • These essays were supplemented by the interviews the author conducted with Emyr Humphreys.

In the Shadow of the Pulpit

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323421
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Pulpit written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

The Woman at The Window

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Seren
ISBN 13 : 1781721343
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Woman at The Window written by Emyr Humphreys and published by Seren. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emyr Humphreys is a major figure in twentieth-century writing and The Woman at the Window is an immensely enjoyable and impressive addition to his outstanding list of award-winning novels and short stories. From the widow alone in the rectory drawing room to views across the sunny expanses of post-war Europe, celebrated writer Emyr Humphreys offers this urbane, mature collection. His protagonists look back over the patterns of their lives and forward too, for the chance to untangle family relationships, rekindle lost loves, or find a home for themselves in familiar yet fresh surroundings.

A Toy Epic

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Seren
ISBN 13 : 1781722242
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A Toy Epic written by Emyr Humphreys and published by Seren. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Toy Epic is the story of three boys moving towards the threshold of adult life in the 1930s. From differing backgrounds their lives cross and touch until they become firm friends. Each of them, Michael, Albie and Iorwerth, take up the story in turn, creating their own particular world and contriubting to the composite picture of life in 'one of the four corners of Wales'. Significantly, A Toy Epic is Wales' most important war novel, the dominant central theme of the book. It is framed by the two World Wars, and their shadows, one gone and one looming, colour the novel dark. War is the ultimate representation in the book of a dilemma: that war, although a threat to the existence of civilisation, can also advance it. A Toy Epic is Wales' shining example of modernism. Humphreys, in this book at least, is a modernist in the exact sense of the word. He experiments with form (in the footsteps of Woolf - in particular The Waves which folds an avuncular arm around A Toy Epic from beginning to end), but also he is conducting these experiments at the fault lines of fear and exaltation that the early part of the twentieth century inspired in its artists. A Toy Epic is a marvellous example of modernist techniques employed to condense the reading experience whilst opening up the riches of the prose's potential. It is also a very moving story of three boys growing up, about childhood, and Welsh childhood specifically, between the wars; it is about church versus chapel, about class, about different types of masculine identity, about prospects, about sex, marriage and about death. As M. Wynn Thomas points out in his full and excellent introduction to this edition, the boys represent the polarities at work in Wales during the time; the anglicanisation of Wales from without and within, the erosion of tradition, the significant internal migrations to the coast. Seldom has the country been so tellingly portrayed.

Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429880367
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film written by Kathleen Forni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.

Shards of Light

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786833522
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Shards of Light written by Emyr Humphreys and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Emyr Humphreys is arguably Wales’s most distinguished living writer. • Hidden amongst the detritus gathered during the creative process these poems were not intended to be read generally but were private thoughts distilled into the shard like fragments described in the title. • The poems show the depth and variety of his thinking, with a cutting insight into the nature of being and its universal significance, insignificance or relevance. • The poems contain a profundity which challenge us to think more deeply about the nature of our being.

How Green Was My Valley

Author : Richard Llewellyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439164932
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book How Green Was My Valley written by Richard Llewellyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.

Peripheral Visions

Author : Ian A. Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Peripheral Visions written by Ian A. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. By means of its testimony to lived experience, the novel seems to offer the possibility of exploring local communities and marginalized identities in various elaborate ways. However, by its very metropolitanism, and as a result of the material circumstances of publishing and the cosmopolitan nature of the audience, the British novel inevitably conglomerates around London, and its exploration of the remainder of Britain has tended to be patchy and touristy.

The Big Book of Cardiff

Author : Peter Finch
Publisher : Seren Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Cardiff written by Peter Finch and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 50 years since the city was made Wales' capital. This work includes contributions from some of the finest writers in Britain, all of whom have something personal and original to say about the city, both in English and in translation from the Welsh - Niall Griffiths, Dannie Abse, and others.

An Absolute Hero

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708315934
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book An Absolute Hero written by Emyr Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth of the novels in The Land of the Living sequence finds Amy Parry bereft of her best friend Enid who has died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis. When she marries John Cilydd More, companionship and motherhood bring her security and some fulfilment. But her peaceful existence is invaded by the turbulence of striking miners and hunger marchers - and the return of Pen Lewis. The events of the Spanish Civil War come to hold great significance in 1930s Wales, and particularly for Amy.

Corresponding Cultures

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corresponding Cultures written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twin cultures of Welsh and English in Wales have caused a great deal of discussion and comment. Wynn Thomas explores the relationship between the two cultures in Wales from the 17th century to the present day. He focuses primarily on the linguistic aspects, using examples from Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Literature.

Emyr Humphreys

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832984
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Emyr Humphreys written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the centenary of his birth in 2019, this is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of the life and work (excluding only work for television) of the major Welsh writer Emyr Humphreys. During the course of a career spanning half a century, and dating back to the 1950s when he collaborated with the likes of Graham Greene, Patrick Heron, Saunders Lewis, Richard Burton, Siân Phillips and Peter O’Toole, Humphreys has published some two dozen works of fiction (including Outside the House of Baal, the greatest novel of anglophone Welsh literature) as well as highly distinctive poetry, seminal essays, and a visionary cultural history of Wales. In addition to offering a critical and interpretative survey of this remarkable, distinguished body of work, the present volume also sets Humphreys’s output in the context of the dramatic, transformative decades in recent Welsh history during which it was produced.

A Man S Estate

Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022233676
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book A Man S Estate written by Emyr Humphreys and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widowed farmer Gethin is content with his quiet life in the Welsh countryside. But when a developer offers him a generous sum for his land, Gethin is faced with a difficult decision. Torn between preserving his family's legacy and securing their financial future, he must find a way to balance his obligations to the past and the present. A moving and thought-provoking novel from one of Wales' most celebrated writers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Emyr Humphreys

Author : Diane Green
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 070832259X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Emyr Humphreys written by Diane Green and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998. An early chapter comprises a literary biography with the following chapters devoted to: the early novels including A Toy Epic; a separate examination of Outside the House of Baal, considered by many to be his finest achievement; his use of Celtic myth as a patterning device; similarly his use of Welsh history is covered in 2 chapters; and finally his use of various postcolonial strategies. It also contains an extensive bibliography of work by and about Emyr Humphreys.