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100 1 $aByers, Mark,$d1988-$eauthor.
245 10 $aCharles Olson and American modernism :$bthe practice of the self /$cMark Byers.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $a206 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aOxford English monographs
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index.
520 $aThis volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson's work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson's published and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early post-war American modernism. The development of Olson's work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radical individual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition.
600 10 $aOlson, Charles,$d1910-1970$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
830 0 $aOxford English monographs.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3529.L655$iZ595 2018