
Philip Larkin
Stephen Regan(Author)
Red Globe Press
Published on 3. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 265 pages
978-0-333-60484-7 (ISBN)
Description
Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin's reputation as a writer has undergone a profound and dramatic transformation. With the publication of a candid biography, a controversial collection of letters and a comprehensive edition of the poems, the abiding interests and concerns of Larkin criticism have been radically altered. At the same time, the impact of literary theory has brought a new set of critical perspectives and approaches to bear on the poetry. The essays in this volume abandon the tired cliches of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and post-colonialism in the work of a writer widely regarded as the best Poet Laureate Britain never had.
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Series
Edition
1997
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-60484-7 (9780333604847)
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Stephen Regan
Philip Larkin
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09/1997
Palgrave Macmillan
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Stephen Regan
Philip Larkin
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09/1997
Palgrave Macmillan
€52.62
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Person
Stephen Regan
Content
Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; Stephen Regan.- The Main of Light; Seamus Heaney Philip.- Larkin and Symbolism; Andrew Motion Philip Larkin: After Symbolism; Barbara Everett Philip Larkin: The Metonymic Muse; David Lodge Reading 'Deceptions': A Dramatic Conversation; Graham Holderness.- 'Get Out As Early As You Can': Larkin's Sexual Politics; Steve Clark.- Difficulties with Girls; Janice Rossen.- Into the Heart of Englishness; Tom Paulin.- Margins of Tolerance: Responses to Post-war Decline; Stan Smith Philip Larkin: Lyricism, Englishness and Postcoloniality; James Booth Larkin's Identities; Andrew Swarbrick.- Alas! Deceived; Alan Bennett.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.