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" Through other continents : "
Wai Chee Dimock
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632334
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Dimock, Wai-chee,1953-
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Through other continents : : American literature across deep time /\ Wai Chee Dimock
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243 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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9780691114507
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: 0691114501
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: 0691114498
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: 9780691114491
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-236) and index
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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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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
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American literature-- History and criticism
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American literature-- Foreign influences
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Globalization in literature
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Comparative literature-- American and Ancient
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Comparative literature-- Ancient and American
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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810.9
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PS157.D56 2009 (pbk.)
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