عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PS157 .D56 2009 (pbk.)
PS157
.
D56
2009
(
pbk
.)
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0691114498
(Number (ISBN
0691114501
(Number (ISBN
9780691114491
(Number (ISBN
9780691114507
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Through other continents :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
American literature across deep time /
First Statement of Responsibility
Wai Chee Dimock
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
243 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-236) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- Foreign influences
American literature-- History and criticism
Comparative literature-- American and Ancient
Comparative literature-- Ancient and American
Globalization in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
810
.
9
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PS157
Book number
.
D56
2009
(
pbk
.)
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Dimock, Wai-chee,1953-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20101103111903.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
