Through other continents : American literature across deep time /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, ©2006.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
American literature > Foreign influences.
Globalization in literature.
Comparative literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Littérature américaine > Influence étrangère.
Mondialisation dans la littérature.
Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Comparative literature
Globalization in literature
Literaturbeziehungen
Weltliteratur
Amerikaans.
Bellettrie.
Buitenlandse invloeden.
Amerikansk litteratur.
Amerikansk litteratur > utländska influenser > historia.
Globalisering i litteraturen.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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