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Imagining
Wales:
A view of modern Welsh writing in English
Jeremy Hooker
University of Wales Press
192pp 216 x 138mm
Paperback £12.99 ISBN 0-7083-1636-0
Hardback £25.00 ISBN 0-7083-1635-2
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Imagining
Wales is a major new interpretation of literary images of Wales
and Welshness in the twentieth century. It is the product of more
than thirty years engagement with the subject by an English critic
who has played a pioneering role in the field, and who brings to
it an outsider's detachment, together with an informed and sympathetic
interest.
Jeremy
Hooker focuses on a number of modern Welsh writers in English, including
Emyr Humphreys, David Jones, John Cowper Powys, Alun Lewis, R. S.
Thomas, and Gillian Clarke, in order to explore the different ways
in which these writers shape visions of Wales in their work and
thereby create what R. S. Thomas described as the 'true Wales of
[the] imagination'.
Through
careful close readings of the texts under discussion, Jeremy Hooker
examines the sense of imaginative possibility that these writers
find in the 'border' situation between their Welsh and English inheritances
and provides a significant analysis of the question of Welsh identity
in the twentieth century.
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