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

מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Dimock, Wai-chee (VerfasserIn)
פורמט: ספר
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2006
תיאור
תאור פריט:Includes bibliographical references and index<br>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
תיאור פיזי:243 S. : Ill.
ISBN:978-0-691-11449-1