TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘For those who do not know’
T2 - The Translation, Transmission and Reception of Saunders Lewis in English
AU - Chapman, T Robin
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - The work of the dramatist, politician and critic Saunders Lewis has elicited more interpretation in English than that of any other Welsh-language writer. This essay traces Lewis’s dissemination for an English-language readership from the 1940s until the present under three broadly chronological headings. Initially lionised, Lewis was adopted until the 1970s as a magus figure in both nationalism and the language movement. By the late 1970s, however, his conservative politics, including accusations of anti-Semitism and what was perceived as a less than enlightened attitude towards women and the urban working classes, saw him fall into disfavour. The essay concludes with the assertion that Lewis now occupies two discursive territories: as a man of faith removed from temporal concerns and, more tellingly, as a paradigm for Welsh writers in English from David Jones to Emyr Humphreys and R.S. Thomas.
AB - The work of the dramatist, politician and critic Saunders Lewis has elicited more interpretation in English than that of any other Welsh-language writer. This essay traces Lewis’s dissemination for an English-language readership from the 1940s until the present under three broadly chronological headings. Initially lionised, Lewis was adopted until the 1970s as a magus figure in both nationalism and the language movement. By the late 1970s, however, his conservative politics, including accusations of anti-Semitism and what was perceived as a less than enlightened attitude towards women and the urban working classes, saw him fall into disfavour. The essay concludes with the assertion that Lewis now occupies two discursive territories: as a man of faith removed from temporal concerns and, more tellingly, as a paradigm for Welsh writers in English from David Jones to Emyr Humphreys and R.S. Thomas.
KW - reception, Saunders Lewis
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/45316
U2 - 10.16995/ijwwe.4.1
DO - 10.16995/ijwwe.4.1
M3 - Article
SN - 2053-1907
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 24
JO - International Journal of Welsh Writing in English
JF - International Journal of Welsh Writing in English
IS - 1
M1 - 1
ER -