Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time.

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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.
Temas:
American literature > Foreign influences.
American literature > History and criticism.
Globalization in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Littérature américaine > Influence étrangère.
Mondialisation dans la littérature.
Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
American literature
Globalization in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole TongueCHAPTER EIGHT: Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese; Notes; Index.

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