Everything is in the poems”: Frank O'Hara in Personism

• Název práce v češtině: Všechno je v těch básních": Frank O'Hara v Personismu
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Everything is in the poems”: Frank O'Hara in Personism
• Klíčová slova: Frank O'Hara|"Personismus: Manifest"|Neo-Avantgarda|Modernismus|Postmodernismus|období Studené války|Tvůrčí techniky|New York City|Newyorská škola Poezie|Nová Americká Poezie
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Frank O'Hara|"Personism: A Manifesto"|Neo-Avantgarde|Modernism|Postmodernism|the Cold War era|Creative method|New York City|The New York School of Poetry|The New American Poetry
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2022/2023
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Stephan Delbos, M.F.A., Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 01.02.2023
• Datum zadání: 01.02.2023
• Schválení administrátorem: bylo schváleno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 01.02.2023
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: ne
• Oponenti: Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

Frank O’Hara was a prominent figure in the 1950s New York City art scene and the New York School. While he was both a writer and an art critic, he has rarely pondered his own poetry in theory; O’Hara only published two short essays concerning his poetry and method in his lifetime: “Statement for The New American poetry” and “Personism: A Manifesto.” The latter is a witty, self-conscious proclamation introducing a non-existent literary movement, mainly invented to mock the academic prescriptivism of the many preceding “-isms”. Despite being written to ridicule, “Personism” also gives insight into O’Hara’s creative method and defines the aspects of his style that ultimately make him stand out in the American literary tradition. His poems are intimate and immediate, flippant, and full of real, specific moments and objects. They are rooted in O’Hara’s New York City, its time, and its people; they seem to be “between two persons instead of two pages.”
This thesis aims to define Personism in terms of its stylistic tendencies as well as in its historical and literary context. Personist poems will be analyzed and contrasted with O’Hara’s theoretical work to determine to what extent and by what means Personism is used in practice. Further, this thesis will explore Personism in the context of American literary tradition and define it against its contemporary “-isms,” schools and movements, such as Modernism, Post-modernism, the Beat movement, and the confessional poets.

Seznam odborné literatury

Primary Sources:
O’Hara, Frank. The collected poems of Frank O'Hara. Edited by Donald Allen. Introduction by John Ashbery. Berkley: University of California Press, 1995.

Preliminary Secondary Sources:
Buchloh, B. H. D. Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art From 1955 to 1975. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Delbos, Stephan. The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Ferguson, Russell. In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art. University of California Press, 1999.
Gaiger, Jason, and Paul Wood. Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Gooch, Brad. City Poet: the Life and Times of Frank O'Hara. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Herring, Terrell Scott. “Frank O'Hara's Open Closet”. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 117.3 (2002): 414-427.
Mattix, Micah. Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying "I". Lanham, Maryland: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011. Print.
Perloff, Marjorie. Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998. Print.
Revely-Calder, Cal. “Frank O'Hara in Transit”. Journal of American Studies 52.3 (2018): 716-737.
Sullivan, Ryan D. “Not you: Frank O'Hara and the poetics of 'Personism'”. Textual Practice 34.3 (2020): 419-436.