Intransitive encounter : Sino-U.S. literatures and the limits of exchange / by Da, Nan Z.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Intransitivity -- Indifference in the open: squandering Washington Irving -- Extreme reformality: burning bridges with Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Incommunicative exchange: Yung Wing's impersonal schemes -- The things things do not have to say: Longfellow to Dong Xun -- Open books: Qiu Jin's feminist reading time -- Harmless exaggeration: Edith Eaton's tweaks and glitches -- Epilogue: untracking encounter -- Appendix 1. …”
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Wreading : a poetics of awareness, or, How do we know what we know? / by Rasula, Jed

The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon / by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T.S. …”