Through other continents american literature across deep time book pdf

Enlightenment time charlotte lennox, the female quixote, ed. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including ezra pound, t. Feb, 2015 she has published widely on american literature of every period, from anne bradstreet on, and is best known for through other continents. Mcgurl states that the perspective of deep time holds the promise, for dimock, of. What we call american literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations. Through other continents american literature across. Indigenous absence in transatlantic literatures adam. This is the argument of through other continents, wai chee dimocks sustained effort to read american literature as a subset of world literature inspired by an unorthodox archiveranging from epic traditions in akkadian and sanskrit to folk art, paintings by veronese and. Inspired by an unorthodox archiveranging from epic traditions in akkadian and sanskrit to folk art, paintings by veronese and tiepolo, and the music of the grateful deaddimock constructs a long. Transformations of description in the eighteenth century university of chicago press, 2006 continued on next page in this issue 1 phyllis franklin award for public advocacy of the humanities. Pdf a nursesguide to the critical reading of research. Temporality oxford research encyclopedia of literature.

For stimulating work done in this direction, see stephen burt, o secret stars stay secret. In this essaywith the two americas in the foregroundspanish emerges as key. Understanding humanity as a species with a sedimented imprint wai chee dimock, through other continents. American literature across deep time princeton up, 2006 session 4.

This is the argument of through other continents, wai chee dimocks sustained effort to read american literature as a subset of world literature. Rock and roll in contemporary poetry, this is pop, ed. Rupture, crisis, transformation new directions in us studies. American literature across deep time as a way to think through the concept of deep time and its appearance in fiction. What we call american literature is quite often a shorthand. Inspired by an unorthodox archiveranging from epic traditions in akkadian and sanskrit to folk art, paintings by veronese and. American literature across deep time princeton up, 2007. Duke university press thinking literature across continents.

Comparative literature studies publishes comparative critical essays that range across the rich traditions of africa, asia, europe, and north and south america, and that examine the literary relations between east and west, north and south. Now, with this book, geraldine heng provides the most comprehensive and persuasive validation of race as a way into the medieval cultural imaginary. Victorian intellectuals and transatlantic liberal reform. Indigenous absence in transatlantic literatures adam lifshey fordham university press, 2010.

An anthology from anne bradstreet to octavia butler. Race, she acknowledges, was a concept that varied from place to place and changed in multiple ways over time. At once a work of cosmopolitan scholarship and a deeply personal essay, wai chee dimocks through other continents explores the panorama of american literature across deep time, beyond the confines of language, race, national history, and even the human species. Like apter in the translation zone, dimock in through other continents starts out.

Waichee dimock 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. Understanding humanity as a species with a sedimented imprint. She argues that western liberal ideology, african slavery, asian indentured labor, colonialism and trade must be understood as being mutually constitutive. She was a consultant for invitation to world literature, a thirteenpart series produced by wgbh and aired on pbs in 2010. The library of congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows dimock, waichee, 1953 through other continents. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. Continents the complete guide this is a wikipedia book, a collection of wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as a printed book. Notes on contributors, early american literature deepdyve.

American literature across deep time wai chee dimock princeton university press and meader library general collection ps157. But he also introduced viewers to lion cubs, tiger fish, and much more along the way, giving them. American literature across deep time mezey, jason 20080101 00. American literature across deep time 2006, received honorable mention for the james russell lowell prize of the modern language association and the harry levin prize of the american comparative literature association. American literature as world literature, coedited with lawrence buell. The first map shows the land 510 million years ago, progressing from there reading left to right, top to bottom through the accretion and dissolution of pangaea into the most recent ice. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, lisa lowe examines the relationships between europe, asia, and the americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Mark mcgurl begins his article the posthuman comedy with an analysis of a work by wai chee dimock entitled through other continents. Volume 80 issue 2 american literature duke university press. This is the argument of through other continents, wai chee dimocks 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. Worldmaking and book materiality in only revolutions and the atlas.

The introduction demonstrates how american womens writing is threshold writing, or writing that both delineates clear boundaries and opens to enticing. This is the argument ofthrough other continents, wai chee dimocks sustained effort to read american literature as a subset of world literature. American literature in the world columbia university press. American literature across deep time prince ton university press, 2006, and cynthia wall, the prose of things. American literature across deep time, the destabilizing scale shift of deep time offers an enlarged critical perspective through which the longitudes and latitudes of the planet and the full length of its recorded history become a way to resituate national literatures within the temporal and. Ghosh and miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of literature. This is the argument of through other continents, wai chee dimocks sustained effort to read american literature as a.

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Download the intimacies of four continents ebook free in pdf and epub format. A history of modernist poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the postwar period. American literature across deep time through other continents. Articles may also explore movements, themes, forms, the history of ideas, relations between. Wai chee dimock, william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university, has written widely on american literature. Like other national literatures, american literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. Download through other continents american literature across. African studies american studies ancient near east and egypt art history asian studies book history and cartography biblical studies classical studies education.

Rethinking the shape of literature against the history and habitat of the human species, against the deep time of the planet earth, as described by two scientific disciplines, geology and astronomy. Yeats, mina loy, gertrude stein, wallace stevens, william. She has published widely on american literature of every period, from anne bradstreet on, and is best known for through other continents. The second section places the collections individual essays within this theoretical and historical context, drawing thematic connections among them and across the three time periods. Traveling to other continents to create his memorable commercials and nature films, brown always included a clear call to buy his coffee. This is the argument ofthrough other continents, wai chee dimocks sustained effort to read american literature as a subset of world literature inspired by an unorthodox archiveranging from epic traditions in akkadian and sanskrit to folk art, paintings by. American literature across deep time, that she authored in 2006.

I have tried to experiment with this immensity as well as this minuteness in my forthcoming book, through other continents. American literature across deep time wai chee dimock. Through other continents princeton university press. What did the continents look like millions of years ago.