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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Main Author: Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Globalisering i litteraturen.
Amerikansk litteratur > utländska influenser > historia.
Amerikansk litteratur.
Buitenlandse invloeden.
Bellettrie.
Amerikaans.
Weltliteratur
Literaturbeziehungen
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Globalization in literature.
Comparative literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Influence litteraire, artistique, etc.
Mondialisation dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Influence etrangere.
American literature > Foreign influences.
American literature > History and criticism.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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