Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence
Subtitle: A Case of Wrongful Conviction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781403937063
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Larkin, Philip - Poems & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry
Description: "Written in an outspoken, polemical style, this volume combines a devastating critique of the theoretical flimsiness of most Larkin scholarship with a revolutionary interpretation of the poems that grants them a central role in the emergence of a British Postmodernism and accounts for their continuing utility to the brillant young."--Jacket.