Saturday's Silence by Richard Mclauchlan
This book shows the poems of R. S. Thomas in a new light, as places where a transforming encounter with the silent second day of the Crucifixion story is made possible.-
All That Is Wales
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Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry
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Wales Unchained
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In the Shadow of the Pulpit
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Edward Thomas
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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams
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Emyr Humphreys
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R. S. Thomas, Desperado
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R. S. Thomas
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Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’
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Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
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Between Wales and England
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The Nations of Wales
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Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing
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Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales
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Cartographies of Culture
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After Raymond Williams
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Whose People?
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Eutopia
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Liberating Dylan Thomas
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The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
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J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics
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New Perspectives on Gillian Clarke
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Postcolonialism Revisited
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A Hundred Years of Fiction
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Compatriots or Competitors?
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Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture
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Black Skin, Blue Books
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Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Autobiography
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New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas
'RS. Thomas's terse and condensed poetic voice is inflected more than some readers realise by a deep hinterland of theological and philosophical reflection. This creative new reading of his poetry locates him very specifically in what is not only a theological but a liturgical place, the intense but fertile darkness of the day between Good Friday and Easter - 'a descent into hell' that is also a retrieval and transformation of the experiences of loss, protest and failure. This is a subtle, careful and persuasive interpretation of one of our major modern poets.'- Dr Rowan Wiliams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.'Richard McLauchlan's excellent volume illustrates how productive the relationship can be between theology and literary analysis. The author maintains throughout a close and sensitive attention to the linguistic and formal detail of R. S. Thomas's poetry, revealing the intensity of the poet's imagination and equally of his theological understanding.'- Emeritus Professor Robin Kirkpatrick, Robinson College, University of Cambridge.'This is a brave and bold book that engages deeply with the poems of R. S. Thomas to suggest that the Triduum itself - the movement from Good Friday through Easter Sunday - is the essential progress of the soul in its engagement with God, with Holy Saturday as a liminal space of great anxiety and potential. In his approach to suffering, hope, and prayer mediated through the language of Thomas, the author invites us on an intellectual and spiritual journey that is surprising in its multiple insights and affirming in the ways it leads forward into faith.'- Professor Jay Parini, Middlebury College, Vermont.'A landmark study of R. S. Thomas, an important and rare voice in poetry and in faith in an age of doubt.'- Professor Janet Soskice, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Richard McLauchlan is a freelance researcher and writer. He also runs Light Up Learning, an educational charity based in Edinburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783169207 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783169206 |
| Title | Saturday's Silence |
| Author | Richard Mclauchlan |
| Series | Writing Wales In English |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2016-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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