ABSTRACT This article argues that Ali Smith’s How to be Both (2014) and Will Self’s Umbrella (2012) can be read as employing a metamodernist approach to the depiction of subjective consciousness. The article looks at how both novels follow on from their authors’ engagement with recent advances and debates in philosophy of mind. This engagement results in an implicit model of the mind as...
Philip Larkin has often been perceived as a poet of the everyday, his work projecting a stable and easily identifiable version of reality. However, while there can be little doubt that Larkin's ability to evoke the sights and sounds of the “weekday world” is an essential part of his enduring appeal, such readings have tended to obscure the fact that, for this writer in particular, the boundary...