Publications
Series : T. H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lectures
2014: 'An Engraving': T. H. Parry-Williams, Necromancy, Unknowing
| Author/Editor |
Damian Walford Davies |
| Published |
2015 |
| ISBN |
978-1-907029-19-6 |
| Publisher |
Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru |
| Price |
£5.00 |
| Size |
247 x 148 mm |
| Format |
Clawr papur / Paperback. |
Taking
as its subject the layered anxieties of T. H. Parry-Williams’s 1935 essay,
‘Bwrn’ (burden, weight on the mind), this lecture unpicks the complex strata of
knowledge and unknowing that gather round a distressful engraving (hanging in a
shop window) of three cowled figures that the writer cannot exorcize. Bringing
Parry-Williams into a complex relationship with William Blake and artist Henry
Fuseli, the lecture reflects on pathological acts of looking and reading,
offering a bold new diagnosis of Parry-Williams’s neurotic worlds.