Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day: Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415975490)

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 twentieth-century poetic canon.

Author: Tijana Stojkovic
ISBN-10: 0415975492
ISBN-13: 9780415975490
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2006
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.30w x 0.73d