Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography

by Hazel Smith and Hazel Smith

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0853235058

ISBN13:9780853235057

Release Date:October 2000

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Length:242 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

American Literature Criticism & Theory Gay & Lesbian Gay & Lesbian Studies History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Nonfiction Poetry Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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