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Through other continents : American literature across deep time /

Beginning with Thoreau as a tangled part of a global civil society, and Emerson as a tangled part of two world religions - Christianity and Islam - this text explores the loops of 'deep time' that link American literature to the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, as wel...

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Основен автор: Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953- (Author)
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, ℗♭2006.
Предмети:
American literature > History and criticism.
American literature > Foreign influences.
Globalization in literature.
Comparative literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Electronic books.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=350053
Подобни документи: Print version:: Through other continents.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction : Planet as duration and extension
  • 1. Global civil society: Thoreau on three continents
  • 2. World religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam
  • 3. The planetary dead: Margaret Fuller, ancient Egypt, Italian revolution
  • 4. Genre as world systems: epic, novel, Henry James
  • 5. Transnational beauty: aesthetics and treason, Kant and Pound
  • 6. Nonstandard time: Robert Lowell, Latin translations, Vietnam war
  • 7. African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole tongue
  • 8. Ecology across the Pacific: coyote in Sanskrit, monkey in Chinese.

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