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 Info | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, |
| Description | 243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-236) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005057723 |
| ISBN | 0691114498 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780691114491 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |