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Title: THE DRAGON HAS TWO TONGUES
By: Glyn Jones, Tony Brown (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 070831693X
ISBN 13: 9780708316931
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
Pub. date: 15 June, 2001
Pages: 272
Description: First published in 1968, this text is a comprehensive study of the English-language literature of Wales, and contains chapters on several of the main writers, including Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Idris Davies.
Synopsis: 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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Publication: UK
Imprint: University of Wales Press
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