Christoph Hein is widely regarded as one of the most important writers to emerge from the former GDR. This volume contains an interview with Hein, a previously unpublished prose piece by him, an up-to-date biography and critical articles which examine individual texts in detail.
Does the market promote its own intrinsic and selfish values, or does it merely reflect the values of society? This collection offers reports from all areas of... Læs mere
This text looks at the Ben Bowen phenomenon as a product both of his view of himself as a great poet and a Wales that fed that assumption. It traces his escape from a miner's life in the... Læs mere
Chaucer’s Gifts applies the theoretical approaches of economic anthropology to the Canterbury Tales, to show that in Chaucer’s world the exchange of gifts is as prevalent as the purchase of commodities, and that social relations are as important as money and the market.
The first book-length study of the work of the bilingual Welsh poet and novelist Christopher Meredith, best-known for his depiction of post-industrial south-east Wales.
A complete illustrated and scholarly guide to the religious houses of medieval Wales, from the Norman Conquest to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Roland Mathias is a significant figure in the development of Welsh writing in English over the second half of the 20th century. This volume contains Roland Mathias's entire poetic output.
In this book, all of the Arthurian places and names in Wales have been traced back to their original sources to explore the reasons behind their creation.
Between Wales and England is a study of eighteenth-century Welsh writers in English, and the often complex negotiations they made between their Welshness and newly-emergent Britishness.