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Author McAvoy, Siriol

Title Locating Lynette Roberts : Always Observant and Slightly Obscure'
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Writing Wales in English
Writing Wales in English.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Locating Lynette Roberts: 'Always observant and slightly obscure'; 1 The Scarlet Woman; 2 '"You have a Welsh name, are you Welsh?" he asked. "I don't know," I replied': Lynette Roberts and Elective Welsh Identity; 3 'I remember these things': Memory, Misrepresentation and Cultural Tradition in Lynette Roberts's 'Seven Stories'; 4 'What changes break before us': Semi-peripheral Modernity in Lynette Roberts's Poetry and Prose
5 Welsh Literary Modernism, Lynette Roberts and David Jones: Unearthing 'a huge and very important culture'6 'Crusaders uncross limbs by the green light of flares': Lynette Roberts's Avant-garde Medievalism; 7 Burnt Pain and Blasted Seashells: Lynette Roberts's Estuarine War Writing; 8 Listening and Location in the Poetry of Lynette Roberts; 9 Lynette Roberts's The Endeavour: a Generic Adventure; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary This is the first book to present a series of critical essays on the work of the Argentine-born Welsh writer Lynette Roberts. A charismatic and important figure in the history of British poetry and anglophone Welsh writing, Roberts interacted closely with some of the most influential poets of her day. Yet her innovative poetic vision remains unique, and this book brings to light new critical contexts for reading the work of this fascinating twentieth-century poet and novelist
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Roberts, Lynette, 1909-1995.
SUBJECT Roberts, Lynette, 1909-1995 fast
Subject English poetry -- Welsh authors -- History and criticism
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
English poetry -- Welsh authors
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Wales -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Wales
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786833839
1786833832