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Record Nr.

UNINA9910559388603321

Autore

Hose Duncan

Titolo

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes : Prick'd by Charm / / by Duncan Hose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-94841-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Collana

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, , 2634-6060

Disciplina

811.5409

Soggetti

Poetry

Poststructuralism

Literature, Modern - 20th century

America - Literatures

Ethnology - America

Culture

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Literature

North American Literature

American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Frank O’Hara: Myth as Madrigal -- Chapter 3: “You in Me, That is What the Soul Is”: The Traffic of Frank O’Hara’s -- Chapter 4: Daemon -- Chapter 5: Tricked Myth Machines: Making Ted Berrigan Making The Sonnets -- Chapter 6: Phantasmatic Transmission: Ted Berrigan’s vida and razo -- Chapter 7:The Textural Shimmer of John Forbes’s Dead Reckoning -- Chapter 8: The Pagan Sermons of John Forbes -- Chapter 9: Charismatic Animals.

Sommario/riassunto

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry. All three had untimely deaths, excited a collective homage, and developed cult followings that reverberate today. This book tracks the



transmission of the poem as charm, the poet as charmer, and the reinstitution of troubadour erotics as a kind of social poetics. Starting with Orpheus, the book refreshes the myth of the poet as mythmaker, examining how myths of “self” and “nation” are regenerated for the twenty-first century and how persons-as-myths are made in community through coteries of artists and beyond. Duncan Bruce Hose’s critical vocabulary, with its nucleus of mythos, searches the edges of phenomenal enquiry, closing in on the work of “glamour”, “aura”, “charm”, “possession”, “phantasm”, the “daemonic”, and the logic of haunting in the continuing being of these three poets as “charismatic animals”.