Philip Larkin: Art and Self [electronic resource] : Five Studies /
Rowe, M.author.
Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert).
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Introduction -- 'Here' by Philip Larkin -- 'Here': Avoiding the Subject -- Larkin/Flaubert -- 'Livings' by Philip Larkin -- Kant, Joyce, and the Aesthetics of Freedom: A Reading of 'Livings' -- Larkin and the Creepy -- 'Aubade' by Philip Larkin -- 'Aubade': Death and the Thought of Death -- Bibliography -- Index.
Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert).
Larkin, Philip
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.