Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin - Richard Palmer

Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
202 Seiten
2008
Continuum Collections, an imprint of Continuum International Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84714-025-8 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
Argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduring public appeal and the variety of criticism that has been applied to his work.
"Jazz Writings" made Larkin's jazz criticism widely available - Palmer now offers the first extensive revaluation of Larkin's writing on jazz as well as covering his poetry and early work."Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin" argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduring public appeal and the variety of criticism that has recently been applied to his work.Richard Palmer suggests that the ostensible simplicity of Larkin's writing, which continues to attract so many readers to him, is deceptive, masking as it does one of the richest and most resonant of oeuvres in twentieth-century poetry. Penetrating the many masks of Larkin, the book sheds new and considerable light on the hitherto largely ignored spiritual significance of his work. Based upon close and scrupulous reading of the poems themselves, it draws upon insights gained from the history of art and the study of religion and myth as much as literary criticism and personal biography.It also brings long-overdue attention to what is seen to be perhaps the chief love, and operative aesthetic force, of Larkin's life: jazz.
"Such Deliberate Disguises" is thus a major contribution, not just to Larkin studies, but to the wider cultural history of our times.

Richard Palmer is Director of General Education at Bedford School, where for twenty years he was Head of English. A regular contributor to Jazz Journal International, he has published widely in the fields of literature, education and jazz.

Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I: Larkin's Jazz: 'An Enormous Yes'; 1. Prologue: 'Useful to get That Learnt'; 2. All What Jazz: Larkin's Most Expensive Mistake; 3. 'Essential Beauty'; 4. Conclusion: 'The Natural Noise of Good'; Part II: Arrival: Larkin's Mature Verse; 5. Departures and Arrivals; 6. Larkin and Religion; 7. Fears, Antipathies & Aversions; Part III: Larkin the Librarian; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2008
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-84714-025-4 / 1847140254
ISBN-13 978-1-84714-025-8 / 9781847140258
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
zur politischen Ästhetik des Jazz

von Peter Kemper

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
Phillip Reclam (Verlag)
38,00

von Joe Lovano; Bill Milkowski

Buch | Hardcover (2019)
White Star (Verlag)
29,95
Die Geschichte des Jazz in Deutschland

von Wolfram Knauer

Buch | Softcover (2021)
Reclam, Philipp (Verlag)
20,00