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Author Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Title The San Francisco Renaissance : poetics and community at mid-century / Michael Davidson
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Description xvi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Contents Introduction Enabling fictions -- The Elegiac Mode : rhetoric and poetics in the 1940's -- "The Darkness Surrounds Us" : participation and reflection among the Beat writers -- "Spotting That Design" : incarnation and interpretation in Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen -- "Cave of Resemblances, Cave of Rimes" : tradition and repetition in Robert Duncan -- "The City Redefined" : community and dialogue in Jack Spicer -- Appropriations : women and the San Francisco Renaissance -- Approaching the Fin de Siecle
Analysis Poetry in English Californian writers: San Francisco writers, 1945- - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242)
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
SUBJECT San Francisco (Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018452 -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006346
San Francisco (Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018452 -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
LC no. 89001025
ISBN 0521258804