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

Author/creator Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953-
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Description243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-236) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005057723
ISBN0691114498 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691114491 (cloth : alk. paper)

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