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" Hyperscapes in the poetry of Frank O'Hara : "
Hazel Smith.
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609225
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Smith, Hazel,1950-
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Hyperscapes in the poetry of Frank O'Hara : : difference, homosexuality, topography /\ Hazel Smith.
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Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press,, 2000.
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1 online resource (ix, 230 pages)
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9781846313301
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: 1846313309
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: 9781781386743
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: 1781386749
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-225) and index.
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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.
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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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O'Hara, Frank,1926-1966-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Homosexuality and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Art and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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City and town life in literature.
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Gay men in literature.
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New York (N.Y.), In literature.
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PS3529.H28Z87 2000eb
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