Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara [[electronic resource] ] : Difference, Homosexuality, Topography
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811.54 |
| 811/.54 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New York (N.Y.) In literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-674-9 |
| 1-84631-330-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453869603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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