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Hyperscapes in the poetry of Frank O'Hara : difference, homosexuality, topography

By Hazel Smith

Book information

Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9781846313301, 1846313309
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1555746 bytes)
Pages
ix, 230 pages\241
Time added
2015-04-28 16:00:00

Description

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. �Read more...

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