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Article: Translating Caradoc Evans's Welsh English. (Welsh writer)
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- September 22, 1996
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Though the Welsh writer Caradoc Evans has not achieved the same worldwide recognition as his Irish contemporary James Joyce, he is a writer who resembles his more famous counterpart in a number of ways. Like Joyce he wrote a first book about his own nation that caused much offense and public controversy, making its author immediately notorious. Like Joyce he drew on naturalist techniques to create a highly critical portrait of his own people in the first decade of the twentieth century. Like Joyce he published a collection of linked short stories that seemed intended to represent in a hostile way the nation of their author. Where Joyce wrote about the citizens of Dublin, ...
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Article: Welsh is important language
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September 25, 2008 ;
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... ... of the British Empire and wished to identify themselves with what was seen as a more prestigious culture - think of Caradoc Evans's shoppers, who carefully disguised their knowledge of Welsh. Those attitudes are fading now, but not yet completely ...
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