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1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-236) and index |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Foreign influences
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Globalization in literature.
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Comparative literature -- American and Ancient
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Comparative literature -- Ancient and American
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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American literature
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Globalization in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Globalisierung
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Literatur
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USA
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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