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Wai Chee Dimock
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 52
Citations - 1360
Wai Chee Dimock is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Historicism. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 50 publications receiving 1301 citations. Previous affiliations of Wai Chee Dimock include Yale University.
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Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time
TL;DR: In this article, Thoreau's Planet as Duration and Extension (PDE) is used to describe the three continents of the world, including the Earth, Africa, and the Pacific.
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Introduction: Genres as Fields of Knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy that never fully taxonomizes, labels that never quite keep things straight, is used to classify genres, and how the rise of digitization changes these archives, lexicons, and maps.
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Deep Time: American Literature and World History
TL;DR: The use of the adjective American as a description of a body of writing has been studied for over 60 years as discussed by the authors, and the very professionalism of the field rests on the integrity and the legitimacy of this founding concept.
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Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism
TL;DR: Wai Chee Dimock as discussed by the authors presented a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for liberty."
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A Theory of Resonance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose diachronic historicism, inspired especially by scientific theories on background noise, by Einstein's account of the relativity of simultaneity, and by critiques of the visual bias in Western epistemology.