Staying Open: Charles Olson's Sources and Influences (Literary Studies) - Hardcover

 
9781622734306: Staying Open: Charles Olson's Sources and Influences (Literary Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1622734300 ISBN 13: 9781622734306
Verlag: Vernon Press, 2018

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"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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joshua Hoeynck received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, and his research focuses primarily on the confluences between process philosophy, Black Mountain poetry, and environmental criticism. His work has appeared in The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later, Contemporary Literature, and Process Studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the correspondences between Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov. Additionally, in conjunction with the Charles Olson Society, he is publishing a collection of expanded talks from the Society's American Literature Association panels. He teaches writing and literature in the SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University, with courses on the American Western, environmental dystopia, the history of ecology in American literature, and Magical Realism.

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Verlag
Vernon Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1622734300
ISBN 13 
9781622734306
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Anzahl der Seiten
324
Herausgeber
Hoeynck Joshua S
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