The Resource Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
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The item Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as E
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (258 pages)
- Contents
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- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Planet as Duration and Extension; CHAPTER ONE: Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents; CHAPTER TWO: World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam; CHAPTER THREE: The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution; CHAPTER FOUR: Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James; CHAPTER FIVE: Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound; CHAPTER SIX: Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War
- CHAPTER SEVEN: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole TongueCHAPTER EIGHT: Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese; Notes; Index
- Isbn
- 9781400829521
- Label
- Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
- Title
- Through Other Continents
- Title remainder
- American Literature across Deep Time
- Subject
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- American literature
- American literature -- Foreign influences
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Globalization in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Globalization in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as E
- Cataloging source
- MERUC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dimock, Wai Chee
- Dewey number
- 810.9
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS157 .D56 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- American literature
- Globalization in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- American literature
- Globalization in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Label
- Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Planet as Duration and Extension; CHAPTER ONE: Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents; CHAPTER TWO: World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam; CHAPTER THREE: The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution; CHAPTER FOUR: Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James; CHAPTER FIVE: Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound; CHAPTER SIX: Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War
- CHAPTER SEVEN: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole TongueCHAPTER EIGHT: Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese; Notes; Index
- Control code
- 700687112
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (258 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400829521
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)700687112
- Label
- Through Other Continents : American Literature across Deep Time
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Planet as Duration and Extension; CHAPTER ONE: Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents; CHAPTER TWO: World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam; CHAPTER THREE: The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution; CHAPTER FOUR: Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James; CHAPTER FIVE: Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound; CHAPTER SIX: Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War
- CHAPTER SEVEN: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole TongueCHAPTER EIGHT: Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese; Notes; Index
- Control code
- 700687112
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (258 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400829521
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)700687112
Subject
- American literature
- American literature -- Foreign influences
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Globalization in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Globalization in literature
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