Memories of Snow
Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-Reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20047061 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Garrard (0000-0003-3027-2720, University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 163-169 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Memory in the Twenty-First Century (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137520586_20 |
| OpenAlex | W2472039068 |
| ISBN | 9781137520586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
The 1952 audio recording of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales is, for all my family, an object of nostalgia. The nostalgia of the lyrical memoir itself is obvious enough: it harks back to a childhood of guttering gas lamps, paper bags bulging with humbugs, and moustachioed men puffing on pipes as they take their ‘constitutional’ along the ‘Swansea prom’. Thomas’s prose self-consciously amplifies the immemorial quality of the story: Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, [...] before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed
Amnesia · Art · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Object (grammar) · Prom · Reading (process) · Visual arts · History · Irish and British Studies · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |