1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696539103321

Autore

Deusser Rebecca E

Titolo

The sea-floor mapping facility at the U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Field Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts [[electronic resource] /] / by Rebecca E. Deusser, William C. Schwab, and Jane F. Denny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Woods Hole, MA : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2002]

Edizione

[Online version 1.0.]

Descrizione fisica

2 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

USGS fact sheet ; ; FS-039-02

Altri autori (Persone)

SchwabWilliam C

DennyJane F

Soggetti

Ocean bottom - Research - United States

Oceanographic research stations - Massachusetts - Woods Hole

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from HTML index screen (viewed July 8, 2002).

"June 2002."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780682203321

Autore

Cole Douglas <1938-1997.>

Titolo

Captured heritage : the scramble for Northwest Coast artifacts / / Douglas Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : Douglas & McIntyre, c1985

ISBN

1-283-13165-X

9786613131652

0-7748-5370-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 373 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

971.1/1004972

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Northwest Coast of North America - Antiquities

Indians of North America - Northwest Coast of North America - Antiquities - Collectors and collecting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint.  Originally published: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 1985. With new introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Douglas Cole examines the process of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast between 1875 and the Great Depression, in the context of the development of museums and anthropology.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248064803316

Autore

Dimock Wai-chee <1953->

Titolo

Through other continents : American literature across deep time / / Wai Chee Dimock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. ; ; Woodstock, : Princeton University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-46322-5

9786612463228

1-4008-2952-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

810.9

Soggetti

American literature - Foreign influences

American literature - History and criticism

Globalization in literature

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Planet as Duration and Extension -- Chapter 1. Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents -- Chapter 2. World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam -- Chapter 3. The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution -- Chapter 4. Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James -- Chapter 5. Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound -- Chapter 6. Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War -- Chapter 7. African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue -- Chapter 8. Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context.