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Larkin’s Travelling Spirit: The Place, Space and Journeys of Philip Larkin

By Alex Howard

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030534714, 9783030534721
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-53472-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1330680 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
\138
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
general; Twentieth-Century LiteratureLiterature; Poetry and Poetics; Literature

Description

This book examines Larkin’s evocation of place and space, along with theopportunities for self-discovery offered by the act and thought of travel. From hiscanonical verse to his lesser-known juvenilia and dream diaries, this title unveilsa new Larkin; a man whose religious, political and ontological affiliations areoften as wide-ranging and experimental as the very form and symbolic licenceused to express them. Whether exploring Larkin’s fondness for deictics (‘pointing’words, like here/there), his fascination with death, or his interest in the sexualopportunities of an itinerant lifestyle, this monograph provides fresh criticalapproaches bound to appeal to established Larkin scholars and newcomers alike.

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