The Writers of Wales Database

MILLS, KEVIN

16 Beech Drive, Hengoed, Mid Glamorgan  CF82 7JP
Email: khmills@glam.ac.uk

Kevin Mills has recently completed a collection of poems for Cinnamon Press and a critical/creative crossover book for Sussex Academic Press. Both will be published in 2009. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glamorgan where he teaches on Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature, and myth and narrative. His research interests include theory, literature and the Bible, and Victorian literature, as well as the relationship between critical and creative writing. Other interests include the work of Bob Dylan and British sit-coms.

Kevin Mills’ critical work explores how the traces of Christian thought and ideology, especially the uses of biblical material in literature and criticism, are perceived and understood in a post-Christian culture. He has contributed articles to a number of publications including The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. IX, and The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Kevin is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
Justifying Language: Paul and Contemporary Literary Theory (Macmillan, 1995)
Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing (Bucknell University Press, 2007)
The Prodigal Sign: A Parable of Criticism (Sussex Academic Press, 2009)
Fool – collection of poems (Cinnamon, 2009)

 

Approaching Apocalypse (Bucknell University Press, 2007)
 
Approaching Apocalypse examines certain structuring oppositions that shape apocalyptic literature, and sets out to decode their significance for Victorian writing. They are: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/eternal, and this world/other world. The five main chapters of the book each deal with one of these opposites, reading a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, plays, sermons, and other less easily categorized texts.

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Fool (Cinnamon, 2009)

The poems in Fool are informed by a search for traces of the sublime as an almost extinct category. They dwell on hints from a range of sources: landscape, monuments, literature and religion. Investigated as sites of memory, longing and loss, these formations are rich in remnants of the immemorial that retain the power to disturb, to inspire, and to mystify.

(Cover image by Thane Gorek)

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