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Item Details
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PHILIP LARKIN
SUBVERSIVE WRITER |
| By: |
Stephen Cooper |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£22.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845192230 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845192235 |
| Publisher: |
SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 October, 2004 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Critics have tended to label Larkin's poetry as sexist, racist and reactionary. This work demonstrates that Larkin's artistic impulse throughout his career was to challenge orthodox models of social and sexual politics. It also includes correspondence, workbook drafts, dream records, and more. |
| Synopsis: |
Critics have tended to label Larkin's poetry as sexist, racist and reactionary. However, this volume demonstrates that Larkin's artistic impulse throughout his career was to challenge orthodox models of social and sexual politics. Focusing on the Brunette Coleman novellas and the unfinished novels, a structural blueprint is identified as prefiguring the later poems' commentary on sexual and social conduct. Further unpublished material includes correspondence, workbook drafts, dream records, and a playscript, depicting, alternately, hostility to wartime heroics, revulsion from capitalism, unease with traditional gender roles and an interest in psychoanalysis. This study makes available to scholars paintings by Larkin's friend, James Sutton, which illuminate the writer's concern with social oppression, especially the predicament of women in the 1940s. |
| Illustrations: |
colour plate section |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Sussex Academic Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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