Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara [electronic resource] : Difference, Homosexuality, Topography
Smith, Hazel.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2000.
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
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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
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966
O''Hara, Frank.
Homosexuality and literature
Art and literature
Difference (Psychology) in literature
City and town life in literature
Gay men in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature