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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... Ecology in literature . 10. Nature in literature . I. Title . PS3242.N2H36 2007 811.009'36 - dc22 2006039625 British Library Cataloging - in - Publication Data available ISBN for this digital edition : 978-0-8203-3671-8.
... Ecology , the New World , and the “ American ” Adam , 19 2. A New World Poetics , 42 3. Reading Whitman in the New World , 68 Part Two 4. Nature's Last Chemistry , 107 5. Natural History as Autobiography , 156 6. Hemispheric History as ...
... ecological process, and nature as his primary subjects. These aims are not just coincidental, as I argue, but are instead coextensive. Comparative studies of American liter- atures serve to disrupt naive assumptions about literature's ...
... ecological relevance. According to Snyder, Whitman's New World was an incomplete and unfulfilled vision of variety and freedom, Whitman's two great characteristics of what he called New World poetry. As Snyder remarks, “The actual place ...
... ecological community of life. It is a paradox but no accident that Snyder appeals to Whitman's New World vision of “democratic vistas” that extend across the Americas (the same vistas to which Walcott refers admiringly in his essay “The ...
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