Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful (Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series)

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Frank O’Hara’s New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
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List of Illustrations
Epilogue
Preface
The Paragone of the New York School
Introduction: New York School Mannerisms
	Mannerism
	The Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of Maniera
	A Genealogy of Rhetoric
	Chapter Summaries
1. Sprezzatura: Diligent Negligence
	You Just Go on Your Nerve
	The Renaissance of Sprezzatura
	Disgrace
	Difficulty
		The Difficulty of Death
		The Difficulty of Love: Lost Time
		The Difficulty of Love: Distraction
		The Difficulty of Love: Disquiet
	The Art of Diligent Negligence
	Injudicious Affectation
	Denoting Camp
	Sprezzatura and Race: ‘The Successful Syndrome of the Cool’
2. Grace: ‘Joyous Irony in Tenderest Pathos’
	In Public, In Private
	A Step Away from Them
	The Consubstantiation of Grace
	Elegy
	Balanchine’s Poetics
		The Flight of the Dancer: The Transcendental
		Bach in Bathing Suits: The Constructivist
		Balanchine’s Elephant Ballet: The Vernacular
		Some Thoughts About Classicism and George Balanchine
	A Genealogy of Grace
	Unconscious Grace and Grace of Irony
3. Agon: ‘The Energy of Contradictory Actions’
	Three Moments of Agonism: Classical, Mannerist, and Mid-Century
	Renato Poggioli’s Avant-GardeAgon
	Nietzsche’s Agon
	Agonal Communities of Taste
	The New York School of the 1930s
	The Pindaric
	Three Sides of ‘Ode to Willem de Kooning’
4. Figura Serpentinata: ‘And Now it is the Serpent’s Turn’
	Figura Serpentinata
	Queer Figures
	The Cancerous Statue
	The Serpent
	Rhetorical Turns
5. Frank Speech: ‘The Living Ought to be Alive in Every Part’
	Ornate Poetics
	Paul Valéry: The Order of the Serpent
	Frank Speech
	Explosive Grief and Anger
	The Sun’s Motto
	To Hell with Content
	Apostrophe or Invocation
	‘It’
6. Marvellous: \'Remember Life’s Marvellous’
	Forms in Motion and in Thought
	The Prosody of ‘Ode to Joy’
	The Poetry of ‘Ode to Joy’
	The Mannerist Sublime
	Where Air Is Flesh
	Ode on Causality
	Our Tempestuous Rights
	Coca-ColaCarpe Diem
Conclusion: ‘Style at its Highest Ebb is Personality’
Bibliography
Index