New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and WalcottUniversity of Georgia Press, 25 янв. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 442 A simultaneously ecocritical and comparative study, New World Poetics plumbs the earthly depth and social breadth of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott, three of the Americas' most ambitious and epic-minded poets. In Whitman's call for a poetry of New World possibility, Neruda's invocation of an "American love," and Walcott's investment in the poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry does not reinvent the mythical Garden that stands before history's beginnings but instead taps the foundational powers of language before a natural world deeply imbued with the traces of human time. Theirs is a postlapsarian Adam seeking a renewed sense of place in a biocentric and cross-cultural New World through language and nature's capacity for regeneration in the wake of human violence and suffering. The book introduces the environmental history of the Americas and its relationship to the foundation of American and Latin American studies, explores its relevance to each poet's ambition to recuperate the New World's lost histories, and provides a transnational poetics of understanding literary influence and textual simultaneity in the Americas. The study provides much needed in-depth ecocritical readings of the major poems of the three poets, insisting on the need for thoughtful regard for the challenge to human imagination and culture posed by nature's regenerative powers; nuanced appreciation for the difficulty of balancing the demands of social justice within the context of deep time; and the symptomatic dangers as well as healing potential of human self-consciousness in light of global environmental degradation. |
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... allows us to see the three poets rising to a similar challenge of exploring the meaning of human community within the context of an emergent conception of a biocentric cosmos. In other words, this is a simultaneous assessment of each ...
... mother's and his father's deaths in The Bounty and Omeros, respec- tively, allows Walcott a self-consciously ironic exploration of the possibility of nature's promise of the perpetuation of human historical value. 14 | Introduction.
... allowing us to catch glimpses of our natural belonging as well as of our unique human opportunities to choose to act on behalf of the greater whole of what we can only hope remains a new world. This page intentionally left blank Part ...
... allow the perpetual westward move- ment beyond the consequences of previous actions that so characterizes the experience of the U.S. West or interior regions of South America, for ex- ample. As European colonial experience widened to ...
... allow our responses to this continent to continue in the service of outmoded and demonstrably dangerous im- age patterns, or whether to place our biologically—and psychologically— based 'yearnings for paradise' at the disposal of ...
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