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Through other continents : American literature across deep time / Wai Chee Dimock

Author
Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953-
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
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.
Summary
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 well as the languages of Africa.
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ISBN
9781400829521 (electronic bk.)
1400829526 (electronic bk.)
9780691114507
0691114501
0691114498
9780691114491
1282463225
9781282463226
9786612463228
6612463228
9780691114 491 (hbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-236) and index.
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