Dimock Through Other Continents

American Literature across Deep Time
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2952-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimock, Wai Chee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction

Planet as Duration and Extension 1

Chapter One: Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents 7

Chapter Two: World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam 23

Chapter Three: The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution 52

Chapter Four: Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James 73

Chapter Five: Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound 107

Chapter Six: Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War 123

Chapter Seven: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue 142

Chapter Eight: Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese 166

Notes 197

Index 237

Über Autor(innen)

Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (Princeton) and Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy.