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Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time.

What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dimock, Wai Chee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Planet as Duration and Extension; CHAPTER ONE: Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents; CHAPTER TWO: World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam; CHAPTER THREE: The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution; CHAPTER FOUR: Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James; CHAPTER FIVE: Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound; CHAPTER SIX: Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER SEVEN: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole TongueCHAPTER EIGHT: Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese; Notes; Index. 
520 |a What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as E. 
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