A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Autobiographia Literaria"

A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410340635

A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Autobiographia Literaria," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Autobiographia Literaria"

A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781375376679

A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Autobiographia Literaria," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O’Hara

A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O’Hara
Author: Wang Xiaoling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-05-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1000588750

Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O’Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, this books explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on poetic concept and its cultural relevance. The poetry of Frank O’Hara is deeply rooted in and nourished by his urban experience as a metropolitan and an active participant in the vibrant cultural scene of New York. Therefore, an investigation into the interactive dynamics between his poetry and the urban culture he helped shape serves as a starting point for further study on the literary representation of European and American urban culture. Across eight chapters, the authors look into the genesis, theoretical constitution, the interface with culture and aesthetics of O’Hara’s urban poetics and also their philosophical foundations, literary ethics, special expression and representation as well as his reception of modernity and postmodernity. The title will appeal to scholars, students and general readers interested in American literature, poetry and urban culture, especially Frank O’Hara and the New York School.

A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"

A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 33
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410344665

A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Lifetime Guarantees

Lifetime Guarantees
Author: Shelley Harwayne
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Imagine a school where students don't just learn to read and write-they choose to read and write, and do it with enthusiasm. Now, Shelley Harwayne takes us behind the scenes at the Manhattan New School.

Sahara Special

Sahara Special
Author: Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2004
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780340883716

Sahara is thrilled to be moving out of the special education class and into repeat fifth grade - at last she is 'normal dumb' and not 'special dumb'. Then her new teacher arrives and, with the aid of some unusual teaching methods, shows Sahara just how clever she actually is.

The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry

The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry
Author: Robert DiYanni
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780070169449

This is, perhaps, the widest ranging, most comprehensive poetry collection available, and it is useful for poetry courses at all levels. It contains an excellent introduction to reading poetry and understanding the elements, as well as sections on poems and paintings, poems and music, and poems from other languages. Sections on featured poets are integrated with the chronological anthology which gives students a perspective on the variety and range of a large group of poets. This multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-genre and multi-lingual collection gives students a view and instructors an opportunity to teach the universality of poetry. Includes a superb historical range of poetry, from its recorded beginnings to most contemporary.

Poems Retrieved

Poems Retrieved
Author: Frank O'Hara
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0872865975

A reissue of this classic, essential companion to Frank O'Hara's Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Bill Berkson.

From Puritanism to Postmodernism

From Puritanism to Postmodernism
Author: Richard Ruland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317234146

Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

Beautiful Enemies

Beautiful Enemies
Author: Andrew Epstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2006-09-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0195343565

Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets--the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka--Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the avant-garde's commitment to individualism and nonconformity runs directly counter to its own valorization of community and collaboration. In fact, Epstein demonstrates that the clash between friendship and nonconformity complicates the legendary alliances forged by postwar poets, becomes a predominant theme in the poetry they created, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Rather than simply celebrating friendship and poetic community as nurturing and inspiring, these poets represent friendship as a kind of exhilarating, maddening contradiction, a site of attraction and repulsion, affinity and rivalry. Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. By situating his extensive and revealing readings of these highly influential poets against the backdrop of Cold War cultural politics and within the context of American pragmatist thought, Epstein uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of postwar American poetry.