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The Dragon Has Two Tongues (Paperback, New edition)
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The Dragon Has Two Tongues (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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The classic study of the English-language writing of Wales in the
first half of the twentieth century by Glyn Jones, drawing on his
personal acquaintance with writers like Dylan Thomas, Idris Davies
and Caradoc Evans. Tony Brown had the opportunity to discuss the
book with Glyn Jones before his death in 1995 and has had access to
Glyn Jones's own proposed revisions and to manuscript drafts. This
first paperback edition therefore includes some up-dating of the
text and a new bibliography. Glyn Jones's first-hand knowledge of
the writers, coupled with his shrewdness of critical comments,
established the book as an invaluable study of this generation of
Welsh writers. At the same time the autobiographical, first chapter
in which Glyn Jones examines his own life and literary career - the
boy who goes from a Welsh-speaking home in Merthyr, loses his Welsh
as a result of his English-language education and cultural changes
in industrial Merthyr, takes a job teaching in the slums of
Cardiff, re-discovers as an adult the Welsh language and its rich
literary tradition and becomes, in a full awareness of that
tradition, one of Wales's major English-language writers of fiction
and poetry - provides a "case study" of the cultural shifts which
resulted in the emergence of a distinctive English-language
literature in Wales in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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