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Author:

Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--Foreign influences.
Globalization in literature.
Literature, Comparative--American and Ancient.
Literature, Comparative--Ancient and American.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Amerikaans.
Bellettrie.
Buitenlandse invloeden.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780691114491 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691114498 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005057723

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)