Where Have the Old Words Got Me?
Where Have the Old Words Got Me?

Author: Ralph Maud

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0773570489

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Although Dylan Thomas is the one of the most well-known poets of the twentieth century, much of his poetry is considered obscure and difficult, and readers and critics tend to concentrate on those poems that can be most easily understood. Not since the early sixties has there been an attempt to explicate the full corpus of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems. In Where Have the Old Words Got Me? Ralph Maud tackles Thomas's entire work, giving special attention to more difficult and obscure poems. He makes valuable use of Thomas's letters as edited by Paul Ferris in his authoritative Collected Letters volume, bringing the whole man and his work into view.

The Poetry of Dylan Thomas
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas

Author: John Goodby

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1846319943

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An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.

International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures
International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures

Author: Katie Jones

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 152756147X

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This carefully curated collection of essays charts interactions between majority languages (including English, French, German, Italian and Japanese) and minority dialects or languages pushed to the margins (including Arabic, Bengali, Esperanto, Neapolitan and Welsh) through a series of case studies of leading modern and contemporary cultural producers. The contributors, who work and study across the globe, extend critical understanding of literary multilingualism to the subjects of migration and the exophonic, self-translation and the aesthetics of interlinguistic bricolage, language death and language perseveration, and power in linguistic hierarchies in (post-)colonial contexts. Their subjects include the authors Julia Alvarez, Elena Ferrante, Jonathan Franzen, Amélie Nothomb, Ali Smith, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, the film-maker Ulrike Ottinger, and the anonymous performers of Griko. The volume will be of interest to students of creative writing, literature, translation, and sociolinguistics.

Egghead
Egghead

Author: Bo Burnham

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 145551912X

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A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and dedicated following. Bo taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday, making him the youngest to do so in the channel's history. Now Bo is a rising star in the comedy world, revered for his utterly original and intelligent voice. And, he can SIIIIIIIIING! In Egghead, Bo brings his brand of brainy, emotional comedy to the page in the form of off-kilter poems, thoughts, and more. Teaming up with his longtime friend, artist, and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo takes on everything from death to farts in this weird book that will make you think, laugh and think, "why did I just laugh?"