The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes : Prick'd by Charm Paperback / softback
by Duncan Hose
Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics series
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The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry.
All three had untimely deaths, excited a collective homage, and developed cult followings that reverberate today.
This book tracks the transmission of the poem as charm, the poet as charmer, and the reinstitution of troubadour erotics as a kind of social poetics.
Starting with Orpheus, the book refreshes the myth of the poet as mythmaker, examining how myths of “self” and “nation” are regenerated for the twenty-first century and how persons-as-myths are made in community through coteries of artists and beyond.
Duncan Bruce Hose’s critical vocabulary, with its nucleus of mythos, searches the edges of phenomenal enquiry, closing in on the work of “glamour”, “aura”, “charm”, “possession”, “phantasm”, the “daemonic”, and the logic of haunting in the continuing being of these three poets as “charismatic animals”.
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- Pages:306 pages, 17 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 306 p. 17 illus.
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- Publication Date:06/04/2023
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:306 pages, 17 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 306 p. 17 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:06/04/2023
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- ISBN:9783030948436