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1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-236) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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American literature -- Foreign influences.
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Globalization in literature.
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Globalization in literature. |
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Comparative literature.
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Comparative literature. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953- Through other continents. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, ©2006 9780691114507 (OCoLC)308724275 |
| ISBN |
9781400829521 (electronic book) |
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1400829526 (electronic book) |
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9780691114507 |
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0691114501 |
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0691114498 |
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9780691114491 |
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