This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh
literature ever published, and proceeds from two broad
perspectives. First, avoiding the traditional intrinsic and
extrinsic approaches to literary history as the story of literary
forms, authors, other literatures, or events, it places readers,
where possible, at its centre. The definition of readers adopted
here is broad: fictional and non-fictional, derived from letters,
reviews, and criticism, as well as audiences addressed in prefaces,
those mediated through authors' consciousness, or implied, assumed,
postulated, created, idealized, chided, encouraged, and reviled,
and treated as experts or pupils, arbiters, or dupes. Welsh
literature is approached not as the sequential product of authors
writing under particular circumstances but as material interpreted
and reinterpreted, discovered, and rediscovered, by reading
communities across time. Second, it seeks to interpret Welsh
literature as shaped in turn by a series of concerns and
preconceptions that have governed production and reception through
most of the period covered in this book. These include, for
instance, the fact that Welsh literature has been read as a crisis
of cultural communicability between writers and readers; that
writers in a largely amateur literary culture have been regarded as
benefactors; that there is a lack of material to read; that, in a
bilingual milieu, there is an inescapable relationship between
Welsh and English literature; that a language with widely differing
spoken and written registers is preoccupied with notions of
correctness and appropriateness.
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