Staying Open: Charles Olson’s Sources and Influences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staying Open: Charles Olson’s Sources and Influences write by Joshua S. Hoeynck. This book was released on 2019-05-03. Staying Open: Charles Olson’s Sources and Influences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Staying Open, Charles Olson’s Sources and Influences” investigates the inter-disciplinary influences on the work of the mid-Century American poet, Charles Olson. This edited collection of essays covers Olson’s diverse non-literary interests, including his engagement with the music of John Cage and Pierre Boulez, his interests in abstract expressionism, and his readings of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. The essays also examine Olson’s pedagogy, which he developed in the experimental environment at Black Mountain College, as well as his six-month archeological journey through the Yucatan Peninsula in 1950 to explore the culture of the Maya. This book will, therefore, be a strong research aid to scholars working in diverse fields – music, archeology, pedagogy, philosophy, art, and psychology – as it outlines methods for close inter-disciplinary work that can uncover the mechanics of Olson’s creative, literary processes. Building on the straightforward scholarship of George Butterick, whose Guide to the Maximus Poems remains indispensable for readers of Olson’s work, the essays in this volume will also guide readers through the thick allusions within The Maximus Poems itself. New interest in the wide-ranging and non-literary nature of Olson’s thought in several recent academic works makes this book both timely and necessary. Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After by Peter Middleton as well as Contemporary Olson edited by David Herd have started the process of uncovering the extent to which Olson’s inter-disciplinary interests inflected his poetic compositions. “Staying Open” extends the preliminary investigations of Olson’s non-literary sources in those volumes by bringing together a community of scholars working across disciplines and within a wide variety of humanistic concerns.
Olson's Push
Olson's Push - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Olson's Push write by Sherman Paul. This book was released on 1978-01-01. Olson's Push available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Olson's Prose
Olson's Prose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Olson's Prose write by Gary Grieve-Carlson. This book was released on 2007. Olson's Prose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author of The Maximus Poems, Rector of Black Mountain College, and quondam Democratic Party activist, Charles Olson is one of the central figures of mid-twentieth-century American poetry. Charles Olson: A Poetâ (TM)s Prose is the first book-length critical study to focus strictly on Olsonâ (TM)s prose, ranging from his groundbreaking study of Melville, Call Me Ishmael (1947), through such seminal work as â oeProjective Verseâ (1950), â oeHuman Universeâ (1951), The Special View of History (1956, 1970), â oeEqual, That Is, to the Real Itselfâ (1958), and Proprioception (1962). The eleven essays collected in this volume introduce a new generation of scholars who engage Olsonâ (TM)s thinking on gender and sexuality, human ecology, the relevance of non-Euclidean geometry and quantum physics for poetics, phenomenology and Whiteheadâ (TM)s process philosophy, and postmodernism. Olson thinks and writes against the grain of the established authorities in poetry and literary criticism, and his influence on American letters has been broad and varied. Like some Old Testament prophet or Melvilleâ (TM)s Ishmael, Olson projects a voice that is immediately distinctive, sometimes disturbing, always provocative, and often compelling. To begin to understand postmodern American poetry, one must begin with Charles Olson.
The Editor Function
The Editor Function - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Editor Function write by Abram Foley. This book was released on 2021-08-31. The Editor Function available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate “editorial/industrial complex.” Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how. The Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman’s Origin and Nathaniel Mackey’s Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States. The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these editors—routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list formation—emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.
Charles Olson's Reading
Charles Olson's Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles Olson's Reading write by Ralph Maud. This book was released on 1996. Charles Olson's Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maud (English, Simon Fraser U.) offers a narrative account of the life and work of poet Charles Olson, focusing on the poet's lifelong reading material as a basis for understanding his work. Drawing on an annotated listing of his library, as well as his childhood books and poetry by his contemporaries, he links the books to the poet's intellectual and poetic development at each stage of his career. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
