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Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual (Hardcover)
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Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual (Hardcover)
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Despite the denigrating revelations of his published letters,
Philip Larkin looms larger than ever, both as an English national
icon and as a championed voice of postwar English poetry. Philip
Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual seeks to move
beyond the decades-long preoccupation with Larkin's reputation and
canonical status, approaching Larkin instead as part of a
persevering cultural phenomenon through which the traditionally
distinguished individual is reconstituted in the company of the
ordinary and the interchangeable. It tracks how Larkin's poetic
texts negotiate and engage with representations of popular culture
at a time when notions of celebrity, authenticity, and cultural
authority were newly (and deeply) unsettled by rock and roll, and
when cultural capital had become a coveted substitute for
diminished imperial wealth. From his unprecedented f-bombs to his
cultivation of a familiar, comedic personality, this book examines
how Larkin realigns common social practices and popular art
forms-be it attending a church service, watching television, or
enjoying a concert-to the isolated, knowing gaze of the individual.
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