Senses of style : poetry before interpretation / Jeff Dolven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolven, Jeffrey Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542.

Wyatt, Thomas.

Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542--Literary style.

Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542--Influence.

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.

O'Hara, Frank.

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966--Literary style.

Literary style.

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

In an age of interpretation, style eludes criticism. Yet it does so much tacit work: telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What does style have to do with form, history, meaning, our moment’s favored categories? What do we miss when we look right through it? Senses of Style essays an answer. An experiment in criticism, crossing four hundred years and composed of nearly four hundred brief, aphoristic remarks, it is a book of theory steeped in examples, drawn from the works and lives of two men: Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet and diplomat in the court of Henry VIII, and his admirer Frank O’Hara, the midcentury American poet, curator, and boulevardier. Starting with puzzle of why Wyatt’s work spoke so powerfully to O’Hara across the centuries, Jeff Dolven ultimately explains what we talk about when we talk about style, whether in the sixteenth century, the twentieth, or the twenty-first.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Continuing

Part and Whole

Style v. Substance

Art and Nature

Style v. Aesthetics

Individual and Group

Style v. Interpretation

Description and Judgment

Style v. Narrative

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226517254

022651725X

OCLC:

1018148803