Philip Larkin and His Audiences

Informationen zum Autor GILLIAN D. STEINBERG is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University in New York City, USA, where she directs the first-year composition program. She has published articles on a variety of literary topics and resides in the Bronx with her husband and two sons. Klappentext Philip Larkin, one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets, is nonetheless widely regarded as a misanthropic, provincial recluse. This volume re-examines that critical view and argues that Larkin's poetry, far from demonstrating his misanthropy, highlights his profound awareness of and concern for readers. Zusammenfassung Philip Larkin! one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets! is nonetheless widely regarded as a misanthropic! provincial recluse. This volume re-examines that critical view and argues that Larkin's poetry! far from demonstrating his misanthropy! highlights his profound awareness of and concern for readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Preface Larkin and Audience Larkin's Voices  Memory and Change Jazz and Audienceship Religion and Empathy Conclusion: Two Philips Notes Index

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Preface Larkin and Audience Larkin's Voices Memory and Change Jazz and Audienceship Religion and Empathy Conclusion: Two Philips Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: G Steinberg, G. Steinberg, Gillian Steinberg
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2010
• EAN: 9780230237780
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23778-0
• No. of pages: 203
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy