Emyr Humphries: Conversations and Reflections (Writing Wales in English) - Softcover

Humphries, Emyr

 
9780708317358: Emyr Humphries: Conversations and Reflections (Writing Wales in English)

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Conversations and Reflections brings together the previously uncollected 'occasional writings' of Emyr Humphreys, the major novelist of twentieth-century Wales. It maps the historical and cultural background to the work of a writer who was described by R. S. Thomas as 'the supreme interpreter of Welsh life in English.'
This selection of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a fifty-year period reveals the commanding range of his interests and confirms his stature as Wales's leading man of letters. Dealing with themes ranging from sixth-century literature to the twentieth-century media, these essays address the cultural committments from which Emyr Humphrey's creative writing takes its bearings, as well as being a major author's statement on 'his' Wales, past and present. The essays are interwoven with a parallel series of discussions, conducted with M. Wynn Thomas, which explore many of the key personal, political, and cultural concerns that have recurred thoughout Emyr Humphrey's work. Conversations and Reflections provides a fascinating overview of the work of one of Wales's most significant creative writers and cultural activists.

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M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, University of Wales, Swansea. His many books include studies of Morgan Llwyd, Emyr Humphreys, The Page&;s Drift: R. S. Thomas at Eighty, Internal Difference: Writing in Twentieth-Century Wales, DiFfinio Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru, and Corresponding Cultures: the Two Literatures of Wales.

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