Through other continents American literature across deep time
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 wel...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton Univ. Press
c2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31250051*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
