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13 produkter
Weak Planet
Literature and Assisted Survival
Inbunden, 2020
1143 kr
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Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature teach us? This is the question Wai Chee Dimock …
Weak Planet
Literature and Assisted Survival
Häftad, 2020
265 kr
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Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature teach us? This is the question Wai Chee Dimock …
Rethinking Class
Literary Studies and Social Formations
Av Wai-Chee Dimock, Michael Gilmore
Häftad, 1994
745 kr
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In recent years, as the centrality of race and gender has been established in literary studies, class has often been seen as a crude and reductionist concept. For this volume, the editors have commissioned essays arguing for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the …
American Literature in the World
An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler
Inbunden, 2017
1785 kr
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American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and …
American Literature in the World
An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler
Häftad, 2017
452 kr
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American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and …
Residues of Justice
Literature, Law, Philosophy
Häftad, 1996
500 kr
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In Residues of Justice, Wai Chee Dimock probes the conceit of justice as a matter of measurable equivalence—those iconic scales that promise perfect balance—and finds what she calls the “residues” left behind by any attempt to translate lived conflicts into commensurate terms. Opening with …
Residues of Justice
Literature, Law, Philosophy
Inbunden, 1996
823 kr
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In Residues of Justice, Wai Chee Dimock probes the conceit of justice as a matter of measurable equivalence—those iconic scales that promise perfect balance—and finds what she calls the “residues” left behind by any attempt to translate lived conflicts into commensurate terms. Opening with …
Empire for Liberty
Melville and the Poetics of Individualism
Häftad, 1991
551 kr
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Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign …
Through Other Continents
American Literature across Deep Time
Häftad, 2008
385 kr
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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 …
Shades of the Planet
American Literature as World Literature
Av Wai Chee Dimock, Lawrence Buell
Häftad, 2007
482 kr
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In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it?Leading scholars take up this debate in Shades of the Planet, …
Shades of the Planet
American Literature as World Literature
Av Lawrence Buell, Wai Chee Dimock
E-bok, 2018
642 kr
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In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it?Leading scholars take up this debate in Shades of the Planet, …
Empire for Liberty
Melville and the Poetics of Individualism
E-bok, 2021
738 kr
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Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign …
Through Other Continents
American Literature across Deep Time
E-bok, 2008
574 kr
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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 …
