All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English)
Description
Wales is small geographically, but its rich and varied culture belies its size. This collection of essays focuses on English-language authors from Wales in order to offer a sample of the country's internal diversity. Contributors include Lynette Roberts, who is Argentinian by birth but of Welsh decent; Peggy Ann Whistler, who chose a new Welsh identity as Margiad Evans; Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the decaying squirearchy of the Welsh border country remain sadly little known; and Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, whose Welsh-English translations bring out the bicultural character of Wales. Taken together, they present a Wales that is vibrant in its difference, a culture made of many disparate parts.
Praise for All That Is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English)
“In a characteristically generous and discerning collection of essays, M. Wynn Thomas ranges widely through Welsh writing in English, displaying in the process his marvellous command of language. This is criticism at its best, as sociable as it is perceptive.”
— Catherine Belsey, Professor Emeritus in English, Swansea University
“M. Wynn Thomas is more than just Wales’s finest and most perceptive critic—he is one of the rare intellectuals who can be said to have founded a discipline, and nurtured it for others. All That Is Wales bears the hallmarks of Thomas’s criticism—rigorously-written, closely-read and culturally-alive.”
— Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford
