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OCLC number
1163633573
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Author
Shweiry, Zein,
Title
Frank O'Hara & the city : situationist psychogeography, postwar poetics, & capitalist culture.
Degree
Ph. D. -- Université de Montréal, 2020.
Publisher
[Montréal] : Université de Montréal, 2019.
Description
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Abstract
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.
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Subject
American postwar poetics
New York School poets
Situationism
Guy Debord
Capitalism
Frank O'Hara
Camp
Urbanism
Walking
Ambience
Psychogeography
Surface culture
Dandy
Cognitive mapping
Readership
Experimental
Queer poetry
Gay language
Poésie Americain d'après-guerre
aliénation
dériveur
flâneur
expérimentaux
poésie gay
Situationisme
Capitalisme
Culture urbaine
Psychogéographie
Marche
Culture de surface
Ambiance