Philip Larkin and the Poetics of Resistance
Andrew McKeown and Charles Holdefer, eds
Paris: L'Harmattan ISBN 2-7475-9779-2
Andrew McKeown and Charles Holdefer, eds
Paris: L'Harmattan ISBN 2-7475-9779-2
"I'm an agnostic," the British poet Philip Larkin
(1922-1985) used to say, "an Anglican agnostic, of
course."
The idiosyncratic unbelief that Philip Larkin made
his own in a distinguished writing career spanning
five decades is typically mediated by an engaging
play of bluff and counter-bluff, as seen in his almost
mock metaphysics.
What Larkin is resisting in his writings, how this is a
achieved, and why his texts tend to such complex
ends, are among the questions explored by the
thirteen specialists in this first thematically-unified
volume of Larkin scholarship published in France.
Research support provided by the FORELL (EA
3816)
Photograph: A Sereia by Ricardo Esteves (c)
(1922-1985) used to say, "an Anglican agnostic, of
course."
The idiosyncratic unbelief that Philip Larkin made
his own in a distinguished writing career spanning
five decades is typically mediated by an engaging
play of bluff and counter-bluff, as seen in his almost
mock metaphysics.
What Larkin is resisting in his writings, how this is a
achieved, and why his texts tend to such complex
ends, are among the questions explored by the
thirteen specialists in this first thematically-unified
volume of Larkin scholarship published in France.
Research support provided by the FORELL (EA
3816)
Photograph: A Sereia by Ricardo Esteves (c)
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