Welsh Retrospective
Title | Welsh Retrospective PDF eBook |
Author | Dannie Abse |
Publisher | Seren Books |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain's most popular poets. Dannie Abse's Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular, have haunted his imagination. In this revealing new book book he writes
The Jews of Wales
Title | The Jews of Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Cai Parry-Jones |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178683085X |
This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions. The author considers the impact of the Second World War on Wales’s Jewish population, as well as the importance of the Welsh context in shaping the Welsh-Jewish experience. The study offers a detailed examination of the numerical decline of Wales’s Jewish communities throughout the twentieth century, and is also the first to consider the situation of Wales’s Jewish communities in the early twenty-first, arguing that these communities may be significantly fewer in number and smaller than in the past but they are ever evolving.
The Welsh Outlook
Title | The Welsh Outlook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Wales |
ISBN |
Welsh Planning Law and Practice
Title | Welsh Planning Law and Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Walters |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 505 |
Release | 2017-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1786831570 |
Welsh Planning Law and Practice provides a comprehensive guide to the sources and structure of Welsh planning law and a route through its complexity. This is not a comparative study, but rather deals with legislation and policy affecting land in Wales, placing them in the context of shared principles and concepts and the case law common to England and Wales. More than an academic exercise, planning is a practical matter affecting important aspects of daily life, and the desirability of public engagement in the planning process is well settled. This book contributes to the promotion of recognition of the body of Welsh planning law, to aid accessibility for all who practise in or who are (or want to be) involved in shaping development in Wales.
A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
Title | A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Roberts |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 648 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0470998660 |
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Culture + the State: Nationalisms
Title | Culture + the State: Nationalisms PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Eva Marie Zezulka-Mailloux |
Publisher | CRC Studio |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Culture |
ISBN | 1551951495 |
The Arthur of the Welsh
Title | The Arthur of the Welsh PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786837358 |
Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition, and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources. The volume includes chapters on the 'historical' Arthur, Arthur in early Welsh verse, the legend of Merlin, the tales of Culhwch ac Olwen, Geraint, Owain, Peredur, The Dream of Rhonabwy and Trystan ac Esyllt. Other chapters investigate the evidence for the growth of the Arthurian theme in the Triads and in the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and discuss the Breton connection and the gradual transmission of the legend to the non-Celtic world. The volume, which is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the subject, will appeal widely to medievalists, to Welsh and Celtic scholars, and to those non-specialists who have felt the fascination of the figure of Arthur and wish to know more.