Triptych: three studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible

"[Manic Street Preachers'] third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging record of the Nineties. [This book] reconsiders [the album] from three separate, intersecting angles, combining the personal with the political, history with memory, and popular accessibiility with intellectual attention to [its] depth and complexity. Rhian E. Jones considers The Holy Bible in terms of its political context, setting it within the de-industrialised Welsh landscape of the 1990s ; Daniel Lukes looks at the album's literary amd artistic sources, and Larissa Wodtke analyses the way the album links with philosophical ideas of memory and the archive."--Back cover.