{"product_id":"charles-olson","title":"Charles Olson","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Olson was an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of twentieth-century poetry in America. This study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaul Christensen draws upon a wide variety of source materials-from letters, unpublished essays, and fragments and sketches from the Olson Archives to the full range of Olson's published prose and poetry. Under Christensen's critical examination, Olson emerges as a stunning theorist and poet, whose erratic and often unfinished writings obscured his provocative intellect and the coherence of his perspective on the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoon after World War II, Olson emerged as one of America's leading poets with his revolutionary document on poetics, \"Projective Verse,\" and his now-classic poem, \"The Kingfishers,\" both of which declared a new set of techniques for verse composition. Throughout the 1950s Olson wrote many polemical essays on literature, history, aesthetics, and philosophy that outlined a new stance to experience he called objectism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA firm advocate of spontaneous self-expression in the arts, Olson regarded the poet's return to an intense declaration of individuality as a force to combat the decade's insistence on conformity. Throughout his life Olson fought against the depersonalization of the artist in the modern age; his resources, raw verve and unedited tumultuous lyricism, were weapons he used against generalized life and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume begins with an overview of Olson's life from his early years as a student at Harvard through his short-lived political career, his rectorship at Black Mountain College, and his retirement to Gloucester to finish writing the \u003ci\u003eMaximus\u003c\/i\u003e poems. Christensen provides a systematic review of Olson's prose works, including a close examination of his brilliant monograph on Melville, \u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishmael\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsiderable attention is devoted to Olson's theory of projectivism, the themes an\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53530429653359,"sku":"9780292739987","price":244.87,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0292739982.jpg?v=1790362115","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/charles-olson","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}