1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453869603321

Autore

Smith Hazel <1950->

Titolo

Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara [[electronic resource] ] : Difference, Homosexuality, Topography

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-78138-674-9

1-84631-330-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

811.54

811/.54

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456822903321

Autore

Cateforis Theo

Titolo

Are we not new wave? [[electronic resource] ] : modern pop at the turn of the 1980s / / Theo Cateforis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-15988-0

9786613159885

0-472-02759-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Tracking pop

Disciplina

781.6409/048

Soggetti

New wave music - History and criticism

Popular music - 1981-1990 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tracking the tide : the new wave washes in and out -- The second British Invasion and its aftermath : from new pop to modern rock -- From neurasthenia to nervousness : the whiteness of the new wave -- Camp! kitsch! trash! new wave and the politics of irony -- "(I wish it could be) 1965 again" : power pop and the mining of rock's modern past --  "Roll over guitar heroes, synthesizers are here . . ." -- Kings of the wild frontier -- Epilogue : The new wave revival.