Book Description
This collection brings together essays by established commentators on Larkin's work and by younger critics: from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Individual essays examine Larkin's novels and poetry in the light of psychoanalytical, postmodern, postcolonial and Bakhtinian theories. This collection shows that Larkin's work continues to yield fresh and sometimes surprising readings.
About the Author
James Booth is Reader in English at the University of Hull.
New Larkins for Old: Critical Essays FROM THE PUBLISHER
This collection brings together essays by established commentators on Larkin's work and by younger critics: from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Individual essays examine Larkin's novels and poetry in the light of psychoanalytical, postmodern, postcolonial and Bakhtinian theories. This collection shows that Larkin's work continues to yield fresh and sometimes surprising readings.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Fifteen essays written by critics from the US, the UK, and Europe address an array of themes in the work of novelist and poet Philip Larkin, including his unpublished fiction and the journals of his lover Patsy Strang; his novels and poetry in light of existentialist, psychoanalytic, postmodern, postcolonial, and Bakhtinian theories; his Englishness in connection with writers such as Lawrence, Eliot, Auden, and MacNeice; and the relationship of his thought to the broader malaise of postwar Britain. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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