Through other continents : American literature across deep time

Publication Data

• Title Through other continents : American literature across deep time
• Author Wai-chee Dimock
• Publisher Princeton University Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Princeton, N.J.
• Language English

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

Topics

• American literature :: History and criticism
• American literature :: Foreign influences
• Globalization in literature
• Literature, Comparative :: American and Ancient
• Literature, Comparative :: Ancient and American
• 013504741

Through other continents : American literature across deep time by Wai-chee Dimock. ISBN 9780691114491. Published by Princeton University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.