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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... culture and a melancholy at the new , and this can go as deep as a rejection of the untamed landscape " ( Walcott , What the Twilight 42 ) . A sober reckoning of the past must be tempered by an appraisal of nature so as to taste in the ...
... cultural patterns brought to bear in our relationship to nature, specifically, the Judeo-Christian myth of Adam in the ... culture's attempts to understand its relationship to nature can be seen to deconstruct in the face of nature's ...
... culture. In the modern sensibilities of these poets history's liminality in the natural world tempers nature's promise of facile innocence, but it also does not foreclose the possibility of renewal, as is the case with Walcott's second ...
... cultural geography of the New World. My aim is to test its viability as the basis for a sense of place within a transnational and cross-cultural space characterized by a history of extraordinary, even exceptional, human and more-than ...
... cultures he seizes upon the aesthetics of impres- sionism as a way of prioritizing the present physical space of the Caribbean subject for the foundation of a New World culture and the adamic task of laying claim to place as home ...
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