Michael Dirda: 8 books you could easily overlook -- but shouldn't
Michael Dirda's list of almost-overlooked books: "The History of the Hobbit," "Life at Play" and a trove of Proust manuscripts are among them.
Source: washingtonpost.com
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Barrett Watten on Lytle Shaw's Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie
“The demands of poetry and painting, of expressivity and formalism, collided in his work and would come to no easy resolution,” wrote Barrett Watten of Frank O’Hara in Artforum’s March 2008 issue. O’Hara’s legacy is defined by dichotomies—of “high” and “low,” privacy and disclosure, contrivance and sincerity, celebration and elegy. Watten finds cause to let these contradictions lie in Lytle Shaw’s 2006 book, Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of the Coterie. “The disparity of intention and scale between O’Hara’s intimate poetry and his inescapable public presence . . . h...
Source: artforum.com
A New Book Describes the Origins of Literary Theory
Jessica Merrill traces the emergence of Russian Formalism and its impact on literary form.
Source: columbia.edu
