Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781557832269
(Applause Books). The first complete collection of Dylan Thomas's screenplays offers a unique portrait of his life and times as a professional film writer.
Author : John Goodby
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2024-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178914969X
An accessible introduction to the life and work of the inventive Welsh poet. Dylan Thomas—author of some of the century’s greatest poetry, stories, and film scripts as well as one of the greatest radio features ever broadcast, Under Milk Wood—is often characterized as self-indulgent. This concise and up-to-date biography challenges this depiction with a fresh portrait of the artist as a consummate professional. John Goodby and Chris Wigginton locate the source of Thomas’s daring and inventive style in the poet’s Anglo-Welsh origins as well as his historical, cultural, and social contexts: the Great Depression and 1930s literary London, surrealism, World War II, and Cold War popular culture. The result is a revealing and fresh introduction to the life and work of this important Welsh writer.
Author : Hannah Ellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1472903102
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by theme, the book is divided into three parts concerning Thomas's early years, later life and his lasting legacy. Highlights include essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David N. Thomas, National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by Archbishop Emeritus Rowan Williams. The book also includes essays by poet Owen Sheers and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen. With a foreword by comedian and former Monty Python Terry Jones, Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a rich and personal reflection on the lasting legacy of Britain's greatest poet.
Author : John Goodby
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1846319943
An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.
Author : Ashley Maher
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0198816480
Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself.
Author : W. Christie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137322578
Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Dylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations.
Author : Lorna G. Barrow
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1743327145
Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World delves deep into the experience of Celtic communities and individuals in the late medieval period through to the modern age. Its thirteen essays range widely, from Scottish soldiers in France in the fifteenth century to Gaelic-speaking communities in rural New South Wales in the twentieth, and expatriate Irish dancers in the twenty-first. Connecting them are the recurring themes of memory and foresight: how have Celtic communities maintained connections to the past while keeping an eye on the future? Chapters explore language loss and preservation in Celtic countries and among Celtic migrant communities, and the influence of Celtic culture on writers such as Dylan Thomas and James Joyce. In Australia, how have Irish, Welsh and Scottish migrants engaged with the politics and culture of their home countries, and how has the idea of a Celtic identity changed over time? Drawing on anthropology, architecture, history, linguistics, literature and philosophy, Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World offers diverse, thought-provoking insights into Celtic culture and identity.
Author : Andrew Lycett
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780227485
The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic work Dylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for both lyrical phrases and impish humour, he also wrote for films and radio, and was renowned for his stage performances. He became the first literary star in the age of popular culture - a favourite of both T.S. Eliot and John Lennon. As his status as a poet and entertainer increased, so did his alcoholic binges and his sexual promiscuity, threatening to destroy his marriage to his fiery Irish wife Caitlin. As this extraordinary biography reveals, he was a man of many contradictions. But out of his tempestuous life, he produced some of the most dramatic and enduring poetry in the English language.
Author : Christopher Nolan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 162316060X
(Book). MANKIND WAS BORN ON EARTH. IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO DIE HERE. Christopher Nolan takes on the infinite canvas of space to deliver a cutting-edge, emotionally charged adventure that will amaze movie audiences of all ages. This is the living blueprint of Nolan's journey. Interstellar , Nolan's much anticipated sci-fi film, opened in November 2014 and stars, among others, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, William Devane, Topher Grace, John Lithgow.
Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107119014
Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.
