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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... environmental metaphors are not mere coincidence, of course, since my objective is to argue for the relevance of poetry in building sustainable visions of human beings in the world. Derek Walcott's essay from 1974, “The Muse of History ...
... environmental depredations in its wake , postcolonialism must attend to both the human and natural domains of history . This in- volves a recognition not only of the human impact on nature but also of nature's regenerative capacity to ...
... environmental exploitation. Their weakness of overreach becomes their strength as they enable the myth of Adam to be a sign of seeing anew things that under the pressures of metropolitan norms have been misnamed or are unknown or ...
... environmental degradation urges a more cautiously optimistic approach in order to dis- cover the enabling limits of their poetics. This is because poetry's meaning exceeds the history of the poet in the same way nature exceeds metaphor ...
... environmental transforma- tion and degradation, and the other diasporas that have shaped its social and racial history. We find again and again in their poetry the impulse to reconstruct histories lost under the impact of colonialism's ...
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