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Radical Larkin

Seven Types of Technical Mastery

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. John Osborne

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: A Textuality that Dare not Speak its Name

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    Pages 1-20

  3. Radical Ellipsis: A Girl in Winter

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    Pages 21-47

  4. Radical Ekphrasis: ‘An Arundel Tomb’, ‘The Card-Players’, ‘Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album’

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    Pages 48-81

  5. Radical Deterritorialization: ‘At Grass’, ‘March Past’, ‘Church Going’

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    Pages 82-112

  6. Radical De-essentialism: ‘The Whitsun Weddings’

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    Pages 113-151

  7. Radical Laughter: ‘This Be The Verse’

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    Pages 152-177

  8. Radical Plot Deflation: ‘Vers de Société’

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    Pages 178-201

  9. Radical Citation: ‘Aubade’

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    Pages 202-237

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 238-292
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    John Osborne

About the author

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.

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