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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... earth is ancestral " ( What the Twilight 36–38 ) . This is a postlapsarian Adam , " a second Adam " whose New World is not the Edenic space of innocence : " [ T ] he apples of [ this ] second Eden have the tartness of experience . In ...
... earth, and many others, including Lawrence Buell, have argued similarly on behalf of all genres of literature. My purpose here is to place such a poetics more specifically within the cross-cultural geography of the New World. My aim is ...
... earth” (Other 156). Paz's point is instruc- tive because it demonstrates that we have come to identify the end of human time as synonymous with the destruction of our natural environ- ment. That is, natural history and its long march ...
... earth are paradoxically fed by the newness of the world, a newness that is sustained neither by historical youth nor by willed amnesia or ignorance but rather by an awareness of temporal renewal; the world appears new at each instant ...
... earth, the emerging natural sciences sought to bring order to the chaos in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The naming of American biota developed by Linnaeus tended to tame the unknown and restore it, as it were, within Western ...
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