The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Distributed for University of Wales Press
252 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2011
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Table of Contents

Contents
General Editor’s Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions of Works by Emyr Humphreys
Part One: Frames and Contexts
1. Humphreys’s Life and Works
2. What Kind of Fiction?
3. History, Space and Progress
4. Bodies in Time: Psychoanalytic Contours
5. Women, Feminism and Post-feminism
Part Two: Readings
6. Resistance, Gender and Performative Identity: A Man’s Estate
7. Contested Masculinities: A Toy Epic
8. Time and Being: Outside the House of Baal
9. Land of the Living and Epic Theatre
10. Warring Families: Unconditional Surrender and The Gift of a Daughter
11. Strangers in a Strange Land: Natives, Ghosts and Strangers and Old People are a Problem
12. Intimate Strangers: The Shop
13. Independence, Globalism and Nonconformity: The Woman at the Window
14. Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions of Works by Emyr Humphreys
Part One: Frames and Contexts
1. Humphreys’s Life and Works
2. What Kind of Fiction?
3. History, Space and Progress
4. Bodies in Time: Psychoanalytic Contours
5. Women, Feminism and Post-feminism
Part Two: Readings
6. Resistance, Gender and Performative Identity: A Man’s Estate
7. Contested Masculinities: A Toy Epic
8. Time and Being: Outside the House of Baal
9. Land of the Living and Epic Theatre
10. Warring Families: Unconditional Surrender and The Gift of a Daughter
11. Strangers in a Strange Land: Natives, Ghosts and Strangers and Old People are a Problem
12. Intimate Strangers: The Shop
13. Independence, Globalism and Nonconformity: The Woman at the Window
14. Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Kristi Bohata, Swansea University
“Linden Peach has achieved a rare thing: an engrossing, accessible book that will be relished by students and academics alike. Emyr Humphreys’s pre-eminence as a writer of fiction in Wales over the last sixty years is undisputed. Peach conveys the sheer vibrancy of Humphreys’s ‘dissident prose’ with infectious enthusiasm, while at the same time providing a masterclass in reading his novels with reference to contemporary literary theories.”
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