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"The occasion of these ruses": The mid-twentieth-century poetic speaker in the works of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara, and George Oppen.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The occasion of these ruses": The mid-twentieth-century poetic speaker in the works of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara, and George Oppen./
Author:	Nelson, Matthew C.
Description:	211 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10118583
ISBN:	9781339799124

"The occasion of these ruses": The mid-twentieth-century poetic speaker in the works of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara, and George Oppen.
Nelson, Matthew C.

"The occasion of these ruses": The mid-twentieth-century poetic speaker in the works of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara, and George Oppen. - 211 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2016.

This dissertation argues for a new history of mid-twentieth-century American poetry shaped by the emergence of the figure of the poetic speaker as a default mode of reading. Now a central fiction of lyric reading, the figure of the poetic speaker developed gradually and unevenly over the course of the twentieth century. While the field of historical poetics draws attention to alternative, non-lyric modes of address, this dissertation examines how three poets writing in this period adapted the normative fiction of the poetic speaker in order to explore new modes of address.

ISBN: 9781339799124Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

"The occasion of these ruses": The mid-twentieth-century poetic speaker in the works of Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara, and George Oppen.
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520 $a By choosing three mid-century poets who are rarely studied beside one another, this dissertation resists the aesthetic factionalism that structures most historical models of this period. My first chapter, "Robert Lowell's Crisis of Reading: The Confessional Subject as the Culmination of the Romantic Tradition of Poetry," examines the origins of M.L. Rosenthal's phrase "confessional poetry" and analyzes how that the autobiographical effect of Robert Lowell's poetry emerges from a strange, collage-like construction of multiple texts and non-autobiographical subjects. My second chapter reads Frank O'Hara's poetry as a form of intentionally averted communication that treats the act of writing as a surrogate for the poet's true object of desire. Drawing on the antagonistic relationship between the affective structures of desire and the compromised possibilities of desiring subjects that Laruen Berlant describes in her book Cruel Optimism, my chapter resists confusing the intimacy of O'Hara's poetry with the effect of the poet's presence and points to locations where Frank O'Hara contrasts his own personal wellbeing with that of his poetic subjects. My final chapter examines the differences between George Oppen's poetry before and after his twenty-five year departure from writing in 1934. While Oppen's work strives to treat its objects in concrete and objective ways, the mid-century expectation of an abstract, singular poetic speaker conflicted with Oppen's Marxist-inflected principles. My chapter argues that Oppen creates a new phenomenology of reading that attempts to ground the fiction of the poetic speaker by historicizing it as a genre-inflected mode of poetic address. Ultimately, this dissertation asks how these poets imagined themselves addressing and not addressing their actual reading publics. By doing so, I hope to outline the emergence of a modern poetic norm and uncover a version of literary history that has been hidden in plain sight behind that norm.
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