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Through other continents American literature across deep time
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Through other continents [electronic resource] : American literature across deep time / Wai Chee Dimock.
ISBN
1400829526
9781400829521
0691114498 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691114501
9780691114491 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691114507
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (243 p. :) : ill. ;
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Literature Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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