Download or read book A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O Hara written by Wang Xiaoling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O’Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, this books explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on poetic concept and its cultural relevance. The poetry of Frank O’Hara is deeply rooted in and nourished by his urban experience as a metropolitan and an active participant in the vibrant cultural scene of New York. Therefore, an investigation into the interactive dynamics between his poetry and the urban culture he helped shape serves as a starting point for further study on the literary representation of European and American urban culture. Across eight chapters, the authors look into the genesis, theoretical constitution, the interface with culture and aesthetics of O’Hara’s urban poetics and also their philosophical foundations, literary ethics, special expression and representation as well as his reception of modernity and postmodernity. The title will appeal to scholars, students and general readers interested in American literature, poetry and urban culture, especially Frank O’Hara and the New York School.
Download or read book Frank O Hara written by Jim Elledge and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful and essential collection of reviews and essays (many from now-defunct small magazines) on the poetry, as well as the prose and plays, of the great poet of the New York school, who died in 1966 at the age of 40. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Frank O Hara Now written by Robert Hampson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank O’Hara’s writing is central to any consideration of 20th century American poetry. This collection of essays, the first to be dedicated to O’Hara in nearly two decades, asks why O’Hara remains so important to 21st century readers and writers of poetry. The book is transatlantic in tone, combining American scholarship with a wide sampling of British writers. For many, O’Hara’s distinctive appeal depends on his witty depictions of urban experience, his relationship to the painters of Abstract Expressionism and the exhilarating immediacy of his poetic voice. Yet these chatty and approachable qualities coexist with a testing engagement with currents in European and American modernism. Frank O’Hara Now offers a comprehensive picture of the poet, presenting the conversational insouciance of the writing alongside its more intransigent features.
Download or read book Urban Pastoral written by Timothy Gray and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We knew Koch, Guest, O'Hara, Ashbery, and Schuyler thrived on the gritty, buoyant clank of city life, but that they drew from a secret fountain there only the Brill Building really let on, until now. In seven crisply argued, essayistic chapters, Gray lets us see and feel the invisible paradise glowing within the visible form of the subway, the skyscraper, the tenement bank, the tattoo parlor, a heaven ̀growing in the street/right up through the concrete, but soft and sweet and dreaming."---Kevin Killian, Author, Little Men --Book Jacket.
Download or read book FRANK O HARA Ultimate Collection 100 Poems in One Volume written by Frank O'Hara and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Meditations in an Emergency: To the Harbormaster The eager note on my door... To the Film industry in Crisis Poem: "At night Chinamen jump" Blocks Les Etiquette jaunes Aus einem April River Poem: "There I could never be a boy" On Rachmaninoff's Birthday The Hunter For Grace, After a Party On Looking at "La Grande Jatte," the Czar Wept Anew Romanze, or The Music Students The Three-Penny Opera A Terrestrial Cuckoo Jane Awake A Mexican Guitar Chez Jane Two Variations Ode Invincibility Poem in January Meditations in an Emergency For James Dean Sleeping On The Wing Radio On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art For Janice and Kenneth to Voyage Mayakovsky Lunch Poems: Music Alma On Rachmaninoff's Birthday I watched an armory On the Way to the San Remo 2 Poems from the Ohara Monogatari A Step Away from Them Cambridge Instant coffee with slightly sour cream Three Airs Image of the Buddha Preaching Is It Dirty The Day Lady Died Wouldn't it be funny Khrushchev is coming on the right day! Naphtha Personal Poem Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul Rhapsody Hotel Particulier Cornkind How To Get There A Little Travel Diary Five Poems Ave Maria Pistachio Tree at Chateau Noir At Kamin's Dance Bookshop Steps Mary Desti's Ass St. Paul and All That Memoir of Sergei O . . . . Yesterday Down at the Canal Poem en Forme de Saw For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson Lana Turner Has Collapsed! Galanta Fantasy Other Poems: Yesterday Down at the Canal Noir Cacadou A Doppelgänger Green things are flowers too Entombment Today A Slow Poem V.R. Lang Animals Spleen Did You See Me Walking By The Buick Repairs? In Gratitude to Masters Hate Is Only One Of Many Responses Suppose that grey tree Steps Ann Arbor Variations Having A Coke With You At Joan's 1951 Melancholy Breakfast Digression On Number 1, 1948 A City Winter Poised and cheerful A Pathetic Note As Planned...
Download or read book Spatial Poetics written by Yasmine Shamma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create? Does living in a messy downtown New York City apartment automatically translate to writing a messy New York School poem? This volume addresses the 'environment' of the urban apartment, illuminating the relationship between the structures of New York City apartments and that of New York School poems. It utilizes the lens of urban and spatial theory to widen the possibilities afforded by New Critical and reader-response readings of this postmodern American poetry. In drawing this connection between consciousness and form, it draws on various senses of the environment as informing influence, inviting avant-garde American poetry to be reconsidered as uniquely organic in its responsiveness to its surroundings. Focusing exclusively and comprehensively on Second Generation New York School poetry, this is the first book-length study to attend to the poetry of this postmodern American movement, encouraging American poetry scholars to resituate New York School poetry within larger critical narratives of postmodern innovation.
Download or read book Dual Narrative Dynamics written by Dan Shen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works. In narratives with such dynamics, writers work simultaneously with overt and covert trajectories of signification, establishing a range of relationships between them. The two parallel narrative movements may complement, contradict or even subvert each other, and these relationships significantly influence readers’ understanding not just of events but also of characters, themes, and aesthetic values. The book provides a systematic theoretical account of such previously neglected dual narrative dynamics, substantiated and enriched by the textual analysis of works by Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, and Katherine Mansfield. The study explores the many ways that these authors have used dual dynamics to increase the power of their narratives. In addition, the book identifies the challenges such dual dynamics present not only for narratology but also for stylistics and translation studies, and it develops sound and provocative proposals for meeting those challenges. In taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of narrative and literary theory, literary criticism, literary stylistics, and translation studies.
Download or read book After Postmodernism written by Wang Ning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the critical decline of postmodernism and newer currents of thinking that have come to the fore, including postcolonialism, feminism, and cultural studies, constituting an exploration of the cultural landscape after the heyday of postmodernism in the West and its profound influence on the Chinese cultural scene. Topics discussed include the prevalent theoretical trends and cultural phenomena in the West in the wake of postmodernism, how these developments have influenced contemporary Chinese literary and cultural criticism, and how Chinese scholars can have an equal dialogue with the dominant Western theorists. The chapters examine critical issues and figures in the fields, including postmodernity and globalization, as well as the theories of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Judith Butler. Taking a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, especially between China and the West, the title also sheds light on the imprint of Western theoretical trends on the literature and culture of contemporary China, exemplified in diasporic writing, cinema, women’s literature, popular culture, and the overall orientation of contemporary Chinese literature. The book will be a critical reference for all levels of reader interested in postmodernism, critical theory, postcolonialism, feminism, cultural studies, comparative and world literature, and contemporary Chinese literature and culture.
Download or read book Literature and Power written by Zhu Guohua and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With references to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution, while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel's claim of "the end of art" to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms -- power, capital, habitus, field, etc. into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries, particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology, as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature, cultural studies, and those with specific interests in Chinese literature, literary and art theory.
Download or read book Fuzzy Language in Literature and Translation written by Lu SHAO and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a fuzzy logic-based approach into translation studies and drawing on the theory of information entropy, this book discusses the translation of fuzzy language in literary works and advances a new method of measuring text fuzziness between translation and source text. Based on illustrative examples from the popular novel The Da Vinci Code and its two translated Chinese versions, the study demonstrates the fuzziness measuring method through an algorithmic process. More specifically, information entropy is applied to measure the uncertainty associated with readers’ understanding of the original and its corresponding target texts. The underlying hypothesis is that the probability distribution in which readers will understand identified fuzzy discourse is measurable. By further explicating the validity of the hypothesis, it seeks to solve translational “fuzzy” problems in the translation process and offers an alternative, novel approach to the study of “fuzzy” literary texts and their translation. Hopefully, the argument of the book that the intrinsic uncertainty of fuzzy language can be evaluated through Shannon’s information entropy will open up a new avenue to the quantitative description of the fuzziness of language and translation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in translation studies, applied linguistics, and literary criticism.
Download or read book Frank O Hara the City written by Zein Shweiry and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation adopts a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on reading the postwar urban poems of New York School poet Frank O'Hara. Through French Situationist philosophy, and particularly the writings of Guy Debord, the study explores the spatial and textual relations of O'Hara's urban and cultural representations in postwar poetry. With the help of psychogeography and its "anti-techniques" of détournement and dérive, the research focuses on O'Hara's uses of appropriation in constructing his urban assemblages. The dissertation considers postwar poems from The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara and offers Situationist readings and understandings of O'Hara's modernist (urban and cultural) space. The choice of specific poems highlights O'Hara's unequivocal inspiration by French poetry and focuses on their urbane, experimental and erotic aspects. The first two chapters propose ways in decoding psychogeographical approaches in poetic (de)composition for reading O'Hara's poems, while the third delves into O'Hara's uses of camp in dialogue with Situationist politics that highlight not only the capitalist and the cultural, but also the erotic and the queer.
Download or read book Chinese Thought in a Multi cultural World written by YUE Daiyun and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on the “clash of civilizations” as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author’s interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be perceived as an essential “other,” making it highly relevant in the quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing humankind today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points of view, highlighting the significance of difference and the necessity of dialogue, before, ultimately, rethinking the nature of world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a means of “reconciliation” between cultures. Chinese culture, as a frame of reference endowed with traditions of “harmony without homogeneity”, may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation and even reconstruct the understanding of human civilization. The book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Comparative Literature, Chinese Studies, and all those who are interested in cross-cultural communication and Chinese culture in general.
Download or read book Poems Retrieved written by Frank O'Hara and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of this classic, essential companion to Frank O'Hara's Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Bill Berkson.
Download or read book Selected Poems of Frank O Hara written by Frank O'Hara and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period.
Download or read book The Exploration of the Secret Smile written by Alice C. Parker and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the work of the New York poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) emphasizes a largely overlooked aspect of O'Hara's poetics: the aspect of the urban homosexual, or gay, experience. It also emphasizes his frequent fusion of the aesthetics of poetry with the aesthetics of the visual arts. Revealing the importance of the deliberately (given the societal «mood» of the '50s and '60s) sedimented homosexual meaning in O'Hara's poetry, as well as the importance of the art of the Abstract Expressionists, The Exploration of the Secret Smile offers a new outlook on the congruence of his poetic canon.
Download or read book Frank O Hara written by Marjorie Perloff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-03-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's "French connection" and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric.
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Frank O Hara written by Frank O'Hara and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-03-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.
