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Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Writers of creative non-fiction are often expected to be able to recreate reality, to deal with, or even access, a singular truth. But the author, like any human, is not an automaton remotely tasked with capturing a life or an event. Whether we tell stories and understand them as fiction or non-fiction, or whether we draw away from these classifications, writers craft and shape writing all writing. No experience exists on a flat plane, and recounting or interpreting events will always involve some element of artistic manipulation: every instance, exchange, discussion, event is open to multiple interpretations and can be described in many ways, all of which are potentially truthful. Writing C...
Women, Identity and Religion in Wales
Women, Identity and Religion in Wales is the first comprehensive study of its kind from a present-day perspective. It brings significant and original insights to an understanding of Welsh identity and religion, as well as exploring the distinctive pressures that women in Wales face in their everyday lives. The author provides a qualitatively rich account of the religious and sociological context and interweaves her own experience with that of a number of Welsh women writers, including Menna Elfyn, Jasmine Donahaye and Mererid Hopwood, to offer an in-depth understanding of the dynamic interplay between Welsh female identity and religion. At the heart of the book are conversations with thirteen other women whose lives and experiences reveal how women facing misogyny, repression and stigmatisation are able to respond with resilience and humour. The author concludes that Welsh women have an empowering stereotype, the Strong Woman, and are constructing new identities for themselves beyond the pressures to be respectable and submissive.
Representing the Male
The book subjects male characters in six south Wales novels written between 1936 and 2014 to detailed, gendered reading. It argues that the novels critique the form of masculine hegemony propagated by structural patriarchy serving the material demands of industrial capitalism. Each depicts characters confined to a limited repertoire of culturally endorsed behaviourial norms – such as displays of power, decisiveness and self-control – which prohibit the expression and cultivation of the subjective self. Within the social organisation of industrial capitalism, the working-class characters are, in practice, reduced to dispensable functionaries at work while, in theory, they are accorded the status of patriarchally-sanctioned principals at home. Ideologically subservient and ‘feminised’ in one context, they are ideologically dominant and ‘masculinised’ in another. As they negotiate, resist or strive to reconcile the irreconcilable demands of such gendered practices, recurring patterns of exclusion, inadequacy and mental instability are made evident in their representation.
Storied Deserts
Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places. This edited volume sets out to reimagine the world’s desert places and the very concept of "the desert" itself, taking a boldly interdisciplinary and multicultural approach. Authors engage in literary ecocriticism and ecopoetics, film and visual studies, critical theory, personal and transdisciplinary reflection, creative practices, and historical scholarship. Through their diverse range of perspe...
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
Y Dychymyg Ôl-Fodern
Beirniadaeth Greadigol a geir yma felly mae’n cynnig dadansoddiad o waith Mihangel Morgan ac ôl-foderniaeth mewn modd creadigol a darllenadwy – yn wir, mae’n ddarn o ffuglen ynddo’i hun, ac felly’n addas a gyfer cynulleidfa nad ydynt o reidrwydd yn rhan o’r byd academaidd. Dyma’r astudiaeth estynedig gyntaf o waith Mihangel Morgan – llenor y mae ei waith yn ddigon astrus i’w ddadansoddi ar brydiau. Dyma hefyd yr astudiaeth gyntaf ers degawdau sy’n rhoi sylw penodol i’r stori fer Gymraeg. Bydd yn ganllaw da i ddisgyblion a myfyrwyr sy’n astudio. Astudir gwaith Mihangel Morgan gan fyfyrwyr sy’n astudio Cymraeg Uwch Gyfrannol a Safon Uwch, ac ar lu o gyrsiau Prifysgol. Gobeithio y bydd y llyfr yn gymorth iddynt ddeall rhagor am y llenor nodedig hwn.
'Pe Gallwn, Mi Luniwn Lythyr'
Cyfrol o feirniadaeth lenyddol arbrofol yw hon sy’n cynnig deongliadau amrywiol o waith y bard Menna Elfyn, ac yn rhoi cip inni ar ein hymwneud â llenyddiaeth a’n harferion darllen. Eir ati i gynnig dehongliad ffres o’r gwaith gan arbrofi am y tro cyntaf yn y Gymraeg â dull beirniadaeth epistolaidd, sef cyfres o lythyrau ffuglennol. Dyma hefyd yr astudiaeth estynedig gyntaf o farddoniaeth Menna Elfyn: rhoddir sylw i waith y bardd yn benodol, ond edrychir hefyd ar faterion cyfoes fel cyfieithu, perfformio a marchnata llenyddiaeth yn y Gymru sydd ohoni. Eir ati i herio arferion academaidd trwy droedio’r ffin rhwng ‘ffaith’ a ‘ffuglen’ er mwyn creu beirniadaeth aml-leisiol a darllenadwy sy’n adlewyrchu natur gymhleth ac amlweddog y broses ddarllen.
The Celtic Myths
Introduces the world of the Celts, their gods and goddesses, heroes, monsters and villains. As well as vividly exploring the tales, the author brings her expertise in the archaeology of the Iron Age and particularly shamanism to bear on the mythical worlds she describes, with evidence as diverse as the Gundestrup Cauldron and the famous bog bodies. Starting with a discussion of how myths are transmitted and by whom, the author continues with an account of the Irish and Welsh myths and their key actors and motifs, before moving on to consider themes such as heroes, animals, women, environment and the Otherworld. Finally, the author asks how the myths survived the Christianization of Europe and looks at the influence of monastic chroniclers on the tales, which they preserved and adapted. Includes more than 80 illustrations
Researching Female Faith
Religious and spiritual engagement has undergone multiple significant changes in recent decades. Researching Female Faith is a collection of essays based on recent and original field research conducted by the contributors, and informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives, into the faith lives of women and girls – broadly from within a Christian context. Essays describe and recount original qualitative research that identifies, illuminates and enhances our understanding of key aspects of women’s and girls’ faith lives. Offered as a contribution to feminist practical and pastoral theology, the essays arise out of and feed back into a range of mainly UK pastoral and practical context...
Adra
Cyfrol o atgofion a sylwebaeth wleidyddol gan yr awdur a'r ymgyrchydd amlwg, Simon Brooks. Ceir dadansoddiad treiddgar o'r ardaloedd Cymraeg wrth i'r awdur ddilyn clwb peldroed Porthmadog gyda'i fab yn ystod tymor 201718.
