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Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim [[electronic resource] ] : creating countercultural community / / by Timothy Gray



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Autore: Gray Timothy <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim [[electronic resource] ] : creating countercultural community / / by Timothy Gray Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.5409
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Soggetto topico: Authors, American - Homes and haunts - Pacific Coast (North America)
Counterculture - California
Soggetto geografico: Pacific Coast (North America) Intellectual life
California Intellectual life 20th century
Pacific Coast (North America) In literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-341) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; The Pacific Rim and the San Francisco Renaissance: Two Communities ""Taking Place"" in Mid-century America; 1. Migrating: Exploring the Creaturely Byways of the Pacific Northwest; 2. Translating: The Poetics of Linking East and West; 3. Embodying: Human Geography and the Way to the Back Country; 4. Communing: Tribal Passions in the Late 1960's; Digging In: The Reinhabitation of Turtle Island; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950's and 1960's. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, whi
Titolo autorizzato: Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-666-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778234103321
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Serie: Contemporary North American poetry series.