Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286672-1 (ISBN)
Sam Ladkin argues that O'Hara and the New York School revive Mannerism. Turning away from interpretations of O'Hara's Transcendentalism, Romanticism, or pastoralism, 'mid-century Mannerism' helps explain O'Hara's self-conscious style, its play with sweet and grand grace, contortion of conventional measure, risks with affectation, conceits, nonchalance, and scrambling of high/low culture. Mannerism clarifies the sociability implicit in the formal innovations of the New York School.
The work also studies the kinship between art mediums by retooling rhetoric and recovering a perennial manneristic tendency beyond period style. Genealogies of grace, the figura serpentinata, sprezzatura, ornatus, and the marvellous exemplify qualities exhibited by O'Hara's New York School. Ladkin relates the essential role of dance in the New York School. O'Hara's reception has been tied to painting, predominantly Abstract Expressionism. He was also, however, a balletomane, a fan, for whom ballet was 'made up exclusively of qualities which other arts only aspire to in order to be truly modern.' Relaying ballet's Mannerist origins and aesthetics, and demonstrating its influence alongside Broadway and Hollywood musical-dance on art and poetry, completes the portrait of mid-century modernity.
Sam Ladkin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, having taught previously at the universities of Sheffield, Cork, and Cambridge. He has published articles on Tom Raworth, Walt Whitman, Rob Halpern, amongst others, and is the co-editor of five collections of poetry and essays, most recently Against Value in the Arts & Education (2016).
Preface: The Paragone of the New York School
Introduction: New York School Mannerism
1: Sprezzatura: Diligent Negligence
2: Grace: 'Joyous irony in the tenderest pathos'
3: Agon: 'The energy of contradictory actions'
4: Figura Serpentinata: 'And now it is the serpent's turn'
5: Frank Speech: 'The living ought to be alive in every part'
6: Marvellous: 'Remember life's marvellous'
Conclusion: 'Style at its highest ebb is personality'
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 756 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-286672-9 / 0192866729 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-286672-1 / 9780192866721 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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