Through Other Continents : : American Literature across Deep Time / / Wai Chee Dimock.
What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Planet as Duration and Extension
- Chapter 1. Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents
- Chapter 2. World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam
- Chapter 3. The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution
- Chapter 4. Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James
- Chapter 5. Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound
- Chapter 6. Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War
- Chapter 7. African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue
- Chapter 8. Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese
- Notes
- Index