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Family connections, unconventional friendships, love and loss: the
twelve stories in this collection of new contemporary fiction by
the winners of the 2022 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition present
characters seeking solace, self-discovery and self-fulfilment as
they navigate familiar and unfamiliar territory. Two sisters search
for the last available Christmas tree while coming to terms with
their mother's death; a stammering teen hitches a lift with a Welsh
Elvis; a man participates in his 'endgame'; and a teacher and pupil
create their very own time machine. From hillside encounters to
conversations in homes, shops and on the street, these are stories
about people and place, about relationships and revelations,
peppered with memories and re- imaginings. These are stories where
some voices are silenced and others get to sing. The Rhys Davies
Short Story Competition recognises the very best unpublished short
stories in English in any style by writers aged 18 or over who were
born in Wales, have lived in Wales for two years or more, or are
currently living in Wales. Originally established in 1991, Parthian
is delighted to publish the 2022 winning stories on behalf of the
Rhys Davies Trust and in association with Swansea University's
Cultural Institute.
EDITED BY ELAINE CANNING INTRODUCED BY JULIA BELL A collection of
new contemporary short stories by Welsh writers, comprising twelve
diverse stories about human relationships between people and
places, representing the winners of the 2021 Rhys Davies Short
Story Competition. Including short biographical notes on the
authors and an introduction by Guest Judge Julia Bell, a writer and
Course Director of the MA Creative Writing at Birbeck, University
of London The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is a
distinguished national writing competition for writers born or
living in Wales. Originally established in 1991, Parthian is
delighted to publish the 2021 winning stories on behalf of the Rhys
Davies Trust and in association with Swansea University's Cultural
Institute. Previous winners of the prize have included Leonora
Brito, Tristan Hughes and Kate Hamer.
Inquisitive children and solitary beings; conflicted couples and a
sprinkling of spirits and monsters: these are just some of the
characters which inhabit the twelve stories in this collection of
new contemporary fiction by the winners of the 2023 Rhys Davies
Short Story Competition. A young girl discovers a body in the woods
near her home; a man lords over his cockle-beds; and a holidaying
couple set off on a nocturnal mission. A group of children enlist
the help of a witch to assist a dying relative, while a local
talent show casts a spotlight on hopes and dreams. From an
All-American Diner deep in the Rhondda to rural Welsh landscapes,
working-class communities and cultural and linguisitic journeys
beyond Wales, these stories combine traditional storytelling,
realism and magical realism as protagonists face their demons head
on. They are stories about longing and belonging, departure and
desire, sparking with originality.
This collection of cultural analysis and textual readings on
critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the Women’s Prize
for Fiction Maggie O’Farrell features an exclusive interview with
the author herself. Covering her 9 novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I
Am, and 2 children’s books, this is the first full-length study
of O’Farrell’s work, offering critical explorations from her
earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent
best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. Exploring themes such as
grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation,
palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the
female domestic gothic, beyond a new and exclusive interview with
O’Farrell, this book features a timeline of her life and works,
and suggested further reading.
Lope de Vega's religious plays are a distinctive part of his
output, but little scholarly work is available on them. This study
focuses on five plays, La hermosa Ester, the Isidro plays, Lo
fingido verdadero and La buena guarda. Within the context of the
seventeenth-century stage, Canning examines Lope's manipulation of
religious material, and his treatment of socio-literary themes -
love, the role of women - and the way in which they are employed to
generate audience reception. She considers the relationship between
religious drama and metatheatre, focusing on Lope's techniques for
highlighting the illusory nature of life and the relationship
between lo verdadero and lo divino, concepts which lie at the heart
of the theocentric world view of seventeenth-century Spain. The
conflicting imperatives of human and divine love and the issue of
identity are features of all of the plays. And she shows that the
interplay between illusion and reality and the relationship between
playwright and audience are crucial to Lope's dramatic output.Las
comedias religiosas de Lope de Vega constituyen una parte
fundamental de su producciA3n dramAtica. Sin embargo, no han
recibido el reconocimiento que merecen. Este libro ofrece un
anAlisis de cinco obras: La hermosa Ester, La niAez y La juventud
de San Isidro, Lo fingido verdadero y La buena guarda. Canning
examina las distintas formas de recepciA3n por parte del pAblico
teniendo en cuenta la manipulaciA3n de las fuentes hagiogrAficas y
bA-blicas y el tratamiento que Lope da a temas socioliterarios
tales como el amor y el papel de la mujer. AdemAs, analiza la
metateatralidad de la comedia religiosa y los recursos
autorreferenciales empleados por Lope paraponer de relieve la
relaciA3n entre la vida y la ilusiA3n, entre lo verdadero y lo
divino, conceptos que formaron una parte intrA-nseca de la
cosmovisiA3n teocA(c)ntrica de la EspaAa del siglo XVII. Los
imperativos contradictorios del amor humano y el amor divino y la
complejidad de la identidad son temas que se presentan en todas las
obras. Canning demuestra que la conexiA3n entre la ilusiA3n y la
realidad y la relaciA3n entre el dramaturgo y el pAblico son
cruciales para la producciA3n dramAtica de Lope. ELAINE CANNING is
Lecturer in Spanish, University of Wales, Bangor.
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