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- Title
Party Time in Larkin and Amis.
- Authors
McCue, Jim
- Abstract
A literary criticism is provided which discusses the depiction of parties in the English poems "Vers de Société" and "In a pig’s arse, friend" by Philip Larkin and the 1955 "That Uncertain Feeling," by Kingsley Amis. The aforementioned works' portrayal of social behavior at parties, including social climbing, is discussed.
- Subjects
PARTIES in literature; 20TH century English literature; VERS De Societe (Poem); THAT Uncertain Feeling (Book); IN a pig's arse, friend (Poem); LARKIN, Philip, 1922-1985; AMIS, Kingsley, 1922-1995; INTERPERSONAL relations; ENGLISH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2019, Vol 66, Issue 2, p322
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjz042