New Larkins for Old

This collection brings together essays by established commentators on Larkin's work and by younger critics: from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Individual essays examine Larkin's novels and poetry in the light of psychoanalytical, postmodern, post-colonial and Bakhtinian theories. Essays by: Ian Almond, James Booth, John Carey, Steve Clark, Barbara Everett, George Gilpin, Liz Hedgecock, Raphaël Ingelbein, Edna Longley, John Osborne, V. Penelope Pelizzon, István Rácz, Stephen Regan, M. W. Rowe and Terry Whalen.

Auteur

JAMES BOOTH has taught at the University of Hull, where he is currently Reader in English, since 1968. His publications include Writers and Politics in Nigeria, Philip Larkin Writer and Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 48: Northern Museums. He is currently editing Larkin's unpublished fiction.

Résumé
This collection brings together essays by established commentators on Larkin's work and by younger critics: from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Essays by: Ian Almond, James Booth, John Carey, Steve Clark, Barbara Everett, George Gilpin, Liz Hedgecock, Raphaël Ingelbein, Edna Longley, John Osborne, V.

Contenu
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction; J.Booth Larkin's Money; B.Everett Larkin, Decadence and the Lyric Poem; E.Longley The Two Philip Larkins; J.Carey Patricia Avis and Philip Larkin; G.Gilpin Unreal Girls: Lesbian Fantasy in Early Larkin; M.W.Rowe New Worlds for Old; Mythology and Exile in the Novels of Philip Larkin; L.Hedgecock Philip Larkin and Lady Chatterley's Lover : Exploring an Influence; T.Whalen In the Grip of Light : Philip Larkin's Poetry of the 1940s; S.Regan The Uses of Symbolism: Larkin and Eliot; R.Ingelbien Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in the Poetry of Philip Larkin; J.Osborne 'The Lost Displays': Larkin and Empire; S.Clark Larkin and the Mundane: Mystic without Mystery; I.Almond From Here to Bogland: Larkin, Heaney and the Poetry of Place; J.Booth Native Carnival: Philip Larkin's Puppet-theatre of Ritual; V.P.Pelizzon Larkin from an East-European Perspective; I.Rácz Bibliography Index