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Autore |
Smith Hazel <1950-> |
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Titolo |
Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara [[electronic resource] ] : Difference, Homosexuality, Topography |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-674-9 |
1-84631-330-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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O''Hara, Frank |
Homosexuality and literature - History - 20th century - United States |
Art and literature - History - 20th century - United States |
Difference (Psychology) in literature |
City and town life in literature |
Gay men in literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
American Literature |
Electronic books. |
New York (N.Y.) In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1: Resituating O'Hara; 2: The Hyperscape and Hypergrace: The City and The Body; 3: In Memory of Metaphor: Metonymic Webs and the Deconstruction of Genre; 4: The Gay New Yorker: The Morphing Sexuality; 5: The Poem as Talkscape: Conversation, Gossip, Performativity, Improvisation; 6: Why I Am Not a Painter: Visual Art, Semiotic Exchange, Collaboration; Coda: Moving the Landscapes; Appendix: More Collaboration; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Frank O'Hara's poetry evokes a specific era and location: New York in the fifties and early sixties. This is a pre-computer age of typewritten manuscripts, small shops and lunch hours: it is also an age of gay |
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repression, accelerating consumerism and race riots. Hazel Smith suggests that the location and dislocation of the cityscape creates 'hyperscapes' in the poetry of Frank O'Hara. The hyperscape is a postmodern site characterised by difference, breaking down unified concepts of text, city, subject and art, and remoulding them into new textual, subjective and political spaces. This book the |
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