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Georgia Southern University
"As-Yet-Still-Forgiven Past": Dylan Thomas and Nostalgia
Abstract
dc:description.abstractDylan Thomas exhibited a variety of nostalgic influences within his poetry. A careful study of his life will reveal a nostalgia that evolved from adolescent musings upon an ideal past, to a self-destructive urge to return to innocence through death. Thomas incorporates a variety of historical influences within this nostalgia, but his primary influence is ultimately his own tormented past. This study not only focuses on the personal nostalgia of one man, but the variety of ways nostalgia can affect people, history and society as sociological force.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis (open access)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of Literature and Philosophy
- Year dc:date.available
- 2008
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bailey, David Bradley
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Rebecca Ziegler
- Gautam Kundu
Subjects
dc:subject × 20Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/172
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1172