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Funtime, Endtime: Reading Frank O'Hara

Funtime, Endtime: Reading Frank O'Hara

Pióro, Tadeusz
Wierzchowska, Justyna

Hardcover

Series: Encounters. the Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture,, Book 5

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631732090
ISBN13: 9783631732090
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Sep 28 2017
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is a comprehensive approach to interpreting Frank O'Hara's highly influential work. Frank O'Hara's poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art. The book includes historical contextualization as well as practical criticism. The author analyzes how Frank O'Hara could be regarded. As a Modernist poet, or as one who realizes that the aesthetic of High Modernism is on the wane, and is preparing himself for a paradigmatic change. Earlier poems are best seen as Modernist/avant-gardist, while the later ones as no less vanguard forays into uncharted territory. While the book takes up issues such as mimeticism, realism and abstraction in both poetry and painting, the boredom of the new as seen by Walter Benjamin, and the representational potential of the camp aesthetic, the main emphasis is on practical criticism, modes of reading O'Hara's oeuvre.

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