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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... contexts he has invoked Octavio Paz , Alejo Carpentier , Gabriel García Márquez , Cesar Vallejo , and Carlos Fuentes . The only logic to his literary history is the poets ' attempt to describe an ancient human existential task of making ...
... context yields crucial insights into the specific ways poetry can respond to modernity's ironies of loss, global and local change, and the emergence of the new. This in turn reveals ways to strike the delicate but necessary balance ...
... context. My aim has not been to construct a literary history of influence from Whitman's Demo- cratic Vistas and his call for a New World poetry to these engendered “poets to come.” Triangulation takes them out of the constraints of ...
... context and the limits of foreknowledge” (92). The upshot is this: the defense of a poetic relation to nature does not have to become a diatribe against science or even a categorical rejection of the legacies of Western colonialism ...
... context in which formal practices took place. This allowed the new criticism to be more atten- tive to the distinctions within American experience that a strict formalism seemed to ignore. U.S. critics, particularly Henry Nash Smith ...
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