Larkin’s Travelling Spirit
The Place, Space and Journeys of Philip Larkin
Authors: Howard, Alex
Free Preview- Destabilises long-held understandings of Larkin’s reclusive character
- Offers new methodology to better evidence Larkin’s coded interest in travel through close readings of place, language, metonymy and style
- Builds on new wave of enthusiasm for Larkin studies
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- About this book
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This book examines Larkin’s evocation of place and space, along with the opportunities for self-discovery offered by the act and thought of travel. From his canonical verse to his lesser-known juvenilia and dream diaries, this title unveils a new Larkin; a man whose religious, political and ontological affiliations are often as wide-ranging and experimental as the very form and symbolic licence used to express them. Whether exploring Larkin’s fondness for deictics (‘pointing’ words, like here/there), his fascination with death, or his interest in the sexual opportunities of an itinerant lifestyle, this monograph provides fresh critical approaches bound to appeal to established Larkin scholars and newcomers alike.
- About the authors
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Alex Howard is an academic, author and poet from Edinburgh. His creative work has been published internationally and has won several prizes, including the Charles Causley Poetry Prize and the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award. His work on Larkin was funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-20
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Daydreams and Night Dreams: The Oneiric Informants Behind Larkin’s Evocation of Contemporary and Mythological Englands in The North Ship
Pages 21-43
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A ‘Modern’ Flâneur: Larkin’s Journeys and the Travelling Spirit
Pages 45-70
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War and Weather: Memory, Symbol and Estrangement in A Girl in Winter
Pages 71-100
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Staring Death in the Eye: Deictics, Spacing and Growing Old in High Windows
Pages 101-127
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Larkin’s Travelling Spirit
- Book Subtitle
- The Place, Space and Journeys of Philip Larkin
- Authors
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- Alex Howard
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-53472-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-53472-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-53471-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 131
- Topics
