Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare,9780708316948

Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare

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ISBN13: 9780708316948
ISBN10: 0708316948
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

"Published to mark the 100th anniversary of Rhys DaviesÆs birth, this collection contains essays on the major aspects of DaviesÆs life and work, from the literary, social, and national contexts within which he wrote, to issues of gender, sexuality, and race. Assessed is his importance not just as a writer of short stories, as he has long been identified, but also as one of the finest Welsh novelists writing in English."

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Introduction 1(28)
Meic Stephens
Rhys Davies and his `Turbulent Valley'
29(11)
Dai Smith
The Epic Rhondda: Romanticism and Realism in the Rhondda Trilogy
40(14)
Michael J. Dixon
`Not a Place for Me': Rhys Davies's Fiction and the Coal Industry
54(17)
Stephen Knight
`The Memory of Lost Countries': Rhys Davies's Wales
71(16)
Tony Brown
Withered Roots: Ideas of Race in the Writings of Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence
87(17)
Daniel Williams
Rhys Davies as Autobiographer: Hare or Houdini?
104(34)
Barbara Prys-Williams
`One Rainy Sunday Afternoon'
138(9)
D. A. Callard
`I Wish I Had a Trumpet': Rhys Davies and the Creative Impulse
147(15)
J. Lawrence Mitchell
Eccentricity and Lawlessness in Rhys Davies's Short Fiction
162(13)
Linden Peach
Lawrentianisms: Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence
175(16)
Jeff Wallace
`Love... and the Need of it': Three Novels by Rhys Davies
191(14)
James A. Davies
The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies
205(11)
Katie Gramich
Daughters of Darkness: Rhys Davies's Revenge Tragedies
216(15)
Jane Aaron
The Black Venus: Atavistic Sexualities
231(13)
Kirsti Bohata
`Unspeakable Rites': Writing the Unspeakable in Rhys Davies
244(16)
Simon Baker
Joanna Furber
`Never Seek to Tell thy Love': Rhys Davies's Fiction
260(23)
M. Wynn Thomas
Rhys Davies: A Bibliography 283(4)
Meic Stephens
Index 287

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