The San Francisco Renaissance: poetics and community at mid-century

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: enabling fictions 1. The elegiac mode: rhetoric and poetics in the 1940s 2. 'The darkness surrounds us': participation and reflection among the beat writers 3. 'Spotting that design': incarnation and interpretation in Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen 4. 'Cave of resemblances, cave of Rimes': tradition and repetition in Robert Duncan 5. The city redefined: community and dialogue in Jack Spicer 6. Appropriations: women and the San Francisco renaissance 7. Approaching the fin de siecle Notes Index.

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