Subduing Demons In America

Author : John Giorno
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781593762049

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Subduing Demons in America by John Giorno Pdf

Associated with key 1960s avant garde figures such as Ginsberg, Burroughs, Rauschenberg, and Johns, John Giorno was an early pioneer of multimedia poetry through Giorno Poetry Systems, which also distributed a who’s who of the American underground from Patti Smith to Sonic Youth. Giorno’s use of transgressive material and in-your-face, amplified delivery was also a key influence on punk/new wave pioneers such as Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, and Black Flag. Not just a poet but a sexual, spiritual, and political radical, Giorno helped pioneer the open celebration of queer sexuality in poetry in the 1960s. Subduing Demons in America offers the best of Giorno’s revolutionary poetry, from his striking Pop Art–influenced poems of the 1960s to the psychedelic, echo-laden, multitracked cut-ups of the 1970s with their explosive configurations of queer sex, spiritual practice, and the bohemian Good Life. Also here are the pared-down punk/hip-hop performance poems that Giorno performed in the 1980s.

Author : Matthew Rubery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136733321

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Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies by Matthew Rubery Pdf

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the essays gathered together by this collection explore the extent to which the audiobook enables us not just to hear literature but to hear it in new ways. Bringing together a set of reflections on the enrichments and impoverishments of the reading experience brought about by developments in sound technology, this collection spans the earliest adaptations of printed texts into sound by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and other novelists from the late nineteenth century to recordings by contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison and Barack Obama at the turn of the twenty-first century. As the voices gathered here suggest, it is time to give a hearing to one of the most talked about new media of the past century.

Author : John Whalen-Bridge,Gary Storhoff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438426594

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The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature by John Whalen-Bridge,Gary Storhoff Pdf

The encounter between Buddhism and American literature has been a powerful one for both parties. While Buddhism fueled the Beat movement's resounding critique of the United States as a spiritually dead society, Beat writers and others have shaped how Buddhism has been presented to and perceived by a North American audience. Contributors to this volume explore how Asian influences have been adapted to American desires in literary works and Buddhist poetics, or how Buddhist practices emerge in literary works. Starting with early aesthetic theories of Ernest Fenollosa, made famous but also distorted by Ezra Pound, the book moves on to the countercultural voices associated with the Beat movement and its friends and heirs such as Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Giorno, Waldman, and Whalen. The volume also considers the work of contemporary American writers of color influenced by Buddhism, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Charles Johnson, and Lan Cao. An interview with Kingston is included.

Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781118795422

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A History of American Poetry by Richard Gray Pdf

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries

Author : Sander W. Zulauf,Irwin H. Weiser,Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810809656

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Index of American Periodical Verse 1975 by Sander W. Zulauf,Irwin H. Weiser,Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson Pdf

The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.

Author : Kembrew McLeod,Rudolf Kuenzli
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822348221

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Cutting Across Media by Kembrew McLeod,Rudolf Kuenzli Pdf

The contributors to this book focus on collage and appropriation art, exploring the legal ramifications of such practices in an age when private companies can own culture using copyright and trademark law.

Author : Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476679785

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Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019 by Harris M. Lentz III Pdf

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

Author : Edward S. Robinson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042033047

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Shift Linguals by Edward S. Robinson Pdf

Shift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs. From the groundbreaking works of Dada and Surrealism that paved the way for Burroughs’ breakthrough, through the countercultural explosion of the 1960s, Shift Linguals explores the evolution of the cut-ups within the theoretical frameworks of postmodernism and the avant-garde to arrive at the present and the digital age. Some 50 years on from the first ‘discovery’ of the cut-ups in 1959, it is only now that we are truly able to observe the method’s impact, not only on literature, but on music and culture in a broader sense. The result of over nine years of research, this study represents the first sustained and detailed analysis of the cut-ups as a narrative form. With explorations of the works of Burroughs, Gysin, Kathy Acker, and John Giorno, it also contains the first critical writing on the works of Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner in English, as well as the first in-depth discussion of the writing of Stewart Home to date.

Author : Sherill Tippins
Publisher : HMH
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544003064

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Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins Pdf

Winner of the National Award for Arts Writing: “If there were a course in Chelsea Hotel-iana, this would be the textbook” (The New York Times). It’s where Dylan Thomas lived his last days, Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde, and Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is memorialized by many of its famous inhabitants: Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls there, and Leonard Cohen wrote Chelsea Hotel #2 about his tryst with Janis Joplin. Since its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York’s Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration. Cultural luminaries from Sid Vicious to Thomas Wolfe, Edith Piaf to Patti Smith, Jean-Paul Sartre to Dee Dee Ramone—all made the Chelsea the largest and longest-lived artist community in the world. Inside the Dream Palace tells the hotel’s story, from its earliest days as a cooperative community, through its pop art, rock-and-roll, and punk periods, to its later transformations under new ownership. With this lively and fascinating history, “Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city” (The New Yorker). “An inspired investigation into the utopian spirit of the Chelsea Hotel.” —Elle “An impossible order for any writer: Get the Chelsea’s romance down on paper and try to keep up with Patti Smith and Joni Mitchell and Arthur Miller. But Sherill Tippins’s history does a vivid job of taking you up into those seedy, splendid hallways, now gone forever.” —New York magazine “Tippins succeeds where other historians studying New York landmarks have failed: She understands that even the most splendid buildings are mere settings for the personalities that inhabit them, and wisely bypasses rote chronology for the vigor of cultural excavation.” —Time Out New York “Not only essential to the understanding of this crucial New York City—and therefore American—cultural landmark, but as majestic and populous as the edifice itself, and completely entertaining.” —Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake

Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1921 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781438140667

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Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets by Terence Diggory Pdf

Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.

Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444336733

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A Companion to Poetic Genre by Erik Martiny Pdf

A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.

Author : Marcus Boon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674262171

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In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon Pdf

This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in. In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning intellectual property and copyright. Yet as a philosophical concept, copying remains poorly understood. Working comparatively across cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of what this word means—historically, culturally, philosophically—and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dominant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures today. Drawing on contemporary art, music and film, the history of aesthetics, critical theory, and Buddhist philosophy and practice, In Praise of Copying seeks to show how and why copying works, what the sources of its power are, and the political stakes of renegotiating the way we value copying in the age of globalization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015079632991

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Index of American Periodical Verse by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610695688

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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes] by Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb Pdf

A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.

Author : Winston Leyland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015015369997

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Angels of the Lyre by Winston Leyland Pdf

"Winston Leyland, editor of GAY SUNSHINE (a journal which for several years has published the best of Gay literature and thought), edits the first in-depth anthology of Gay poetry, an exploration of Gay consciousness and the poetic being. There are many dimensions to Gayness and the poetry in this book explores the subtleties of these dimensions. Included are poems by fifty-seven contemporary American and Canadian poets, among them: Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Harold Norse, John Wieners, and Jonathan Williams. Graphic work by eight artists is also included"--Page 4 of cover.