Radical Larkin
Seven Types of Technical Mastery
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2016
X, 292 pages
978-1-137-41063-4 (ISBN)
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The first critical monograph to benefit from the textual rigour of Archie Burnett's landmark edition of The Complete Poems (2012), Radical Larkin celebrates Larkin's technical genius by offering seven in-depth analyses of the stylistic strategies he used to create eleven of his most famous poems.
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John Osborne is Director of American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He was co-founder and first Secretary of the Philip Larkin Society. The present volume builds upon his Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence, which was nominated one of the Books of the Year for 2010 by The New Statesman.
Content
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Textuality That Dare Not Speak Its Name 1. Radical Ellipsis: A Girl in Winter 2. Radical Ekphrasis: 'An Arundel Tomb', 'The Card-Players', 'Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album' 3. Radical Deterritorialization: 'At Grass', 'March Past', 'Church Going' 4. Radical De-essentialism: 'The Whitsun Weddings' 5. Radical Laughter: 'This Be The Verse' 6. Radical Plot Deflation: 'Vers de Société' 7. Radical Citation: 'Aubade' Notes Bibliography Index
