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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities (2012)
Thesis
Wiemann, B. (2012). 'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214731

[Introduction:]With the journalist’s playfulness John Haffenden implicitly accuses Philip Larkin of “narrow-mindedness” and “cultural chauvinism” in his well-documented interview from 1981. Philip Larkin replies with two counter-questions: “But hones... Read More about 'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities.

Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin (2008)
Thesis
Davies, A. M. (2008). Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4208917

Philip Larkin used the image of Winston Smith's blank notebook in George Orwell's 1984 to illustrate the excitement experienced by the writer faced with an as yet unwritten text. He explains that: the books the past has given us are printed; they... Read More about Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin.

Picaresque and romance in Golden Age Spain and postcolonial Britain : a comparative study (2004)
Thesis
Zas Rey, S. M. (2004). Picaresque and romance in Golden Age Spain and postcolonial Britain : a comparative study. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215378

Multiculturalism is not a new phenomenon in European history. Neither are its literary and artistic manifestations. This thesis compares and contrasts two distant but similar multicultural contexts: Golden Age Spain and postmodern Britain. Picaresque... Read More about Picaresque and romance in Golden Age Spain and postcolonial Britain : a comparative study.