Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets. It contains an introduction to the work of these writers, followed by chapters on the central figures: Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. A postscript examines the continuing and changing influence of the New York School. The book is also concerned with deconstruction, a mode of literary analysis with which Ashbery's work in particular has come to be associated by critics in America.

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University of Liverpool, UK

Geoff Ward

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Book Title: Statutes of Liberty
Book Subtitle: The New York School of Poets
Authors: Geoff Ward
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22498-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-09152-1Due: 18 December 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-22500-2Published: 15 February 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-22498-2Published: 15 February 1993
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 208
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: The New York School of Poets

James Schuyler and the Rhetoric of Temporality

Frank O’Hara: Accident and Design

Ashbery and Influence

Lyric Poets in the Era of Late Capitalism

Postscript: Going Around Cities

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