Internal Difference

“The significance of Wynn Thomas’s Internal Difference lies in the fact that it is the first critical study of primarily English-language Welsh texts to rely centrally on the values of Welsh-language culture . . . He has thus changed the way we look at these subjects, at once shifting the centre of Welsh/English studies from the south to the north, from the stasis of the aesthetic movement to a consideration of literature in its social context. Nothing is more revealing in this connection than his habit of dwelling only briefly on any one poem or novel, for all his careful reading of them, before moving on to a consideration of what these mean to Wales as a whole.” –New Welsh Review