Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day : Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style

ISBN-13: 9780415975490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 235 str.

Tijana Stojkovic

Opis

Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional "plain" and the more contemporary "postmodern" categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called "difficult" poetry, and its particular realization in the cultural and historical context of 20th-century Britain. The author examines the nature of poetry as a type of discourse, the elements of, and factors in, the development of literary styles, a close rhetorical examination of Larkin's poems within the described poetic frameworks, and his position in the British 20th-century poetic canon.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction: Raising the Questions 1. Literature, Language, Plainness, and the Plain Style Traditions 2. Larkin in Context 3. Rhetorical Strategies I 4. Rhetorical Strategies II 5. Themes Conclusion: Larkin's Own Blend Notes. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Stojkovic, Tijana