The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-CenturyCambridge University Press, 28.06.1991 - 268 Seiten Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for subsequent counterculture developments such as gay liberation, feminism, and the New Left long before those movements attracted widespread public attention. In his study of these various impulses Michael Davidson devotes chapters to central figures such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, William Everson, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Spicer. He also examines the important but largely neglected context of women writers in a period dominated by misogynistic views. His final chapter brings things up to date by looking at developments in the Bay Area since the death of Jack Spicer. |
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... practices for which our formal educa- tion had little prepared us . These nonliterary factors in the San Francisco Renaissance worried early critics , who saw in Beat bohemia the destruction of an important barrier between mass culture ...
... practices for which our formal educa- tion had little prepared us . These nonliterary factors in the San Francisco Renaissance worried early critics , who saw in Beat bohemia the destruction of an important barrier between mass culture ...
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... practice to lifestyle is a standard pattern among literary historians . The critic tests the poet's claims of " personal freedom " or " beatific visions " against the hard reality of his- tory , finds them wanting in depth and ...
... practice to lifestyle is a standard pattern among literary historians . The critic tests the poet's claims of " personal freedom " or " beatific visions " against the hard reality of his- tory , finds them wanting in depth and ...
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... practices , or extreme psychological states . The myth of place remains the myth of an alternative society , the attempt to forge out of a somewhat terrifying landscape various alternative forms of par- ticipation : “ Actually the whole ...
... practices , or extreme psychological states . The myth of place remains the myth of an alternative society , the attempt to forge out of a somewhat terrifying landscape various alternative forms of par- ticipation : “ Actually the whole ...
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... practice . It is not enough to use natural ecological harmony as a model of how to live ( though this is implicit in all of Snyder's writing ) ; such knowledge is acquired only through daily work and study , activities Snyder equates ...
... practice . It is not enough to use natural ecological harmony as a model of how to live ( though this is implicit in all of Snyder's writing ) ; such knowledge is acquired only through daily work and study , activities Snyder equates ...
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... practices , but for the moment these four quotations will sug- gest a certain continuity among San Francisco poets . What differentiates the positions of these poets from those of their peers elsewhere in the United States is the degree ...
... practices , but for the moment these four quotations will sug- gest a certain continuity among San Francisco poets . What differentiates the positions of these poets from those of their peers elsewhere in the United States is the degree ...
Inhalt
The Elegiac Mode Rhetoric and Poetics in the 1940s | 33 |
The Darkness Surrounds Us Participation and Reflection among the Beat Writers | 60 |
Spotting That Design Incarnation and Interpretation in Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen | 95 |
Cave of Resemblances Cave of Rimes Tradition and Repetition in Robert Duncan | 125 |
The City Redefined Community and Dialogue in Jack Spicer | 150 |
Appropriations Women and the San Francisco Renaissance | 172 |
Approaching the Fin de Siècle | 200 |
Notes | 219 |
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