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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... example, insists that the term “New World” merely invites European settlement: “The concept of a 'new world' . . . refers to an entity which is a world only in so far as it is capable of transforming itself into a replica of the 'old ...
... settlements in the New World. Wendell Berry, for example, writes: “[A]t the same time that they 'discovered' America, these men in- Ecology and the “American” Adam | 23 vented the modern condition of being away from home. .
... example, adopted a revised version of the Adam myth in which the fall of humankind and the fall of nature were no longer conceived of as purely parallel events. God was seen as the Creator of a world that, rather than offering itself ...
... example of this unanswered question in poststructuralist criticism can be found in the work of Roland Barthes, who once argued that nothing is more “natural,” that is, more easily mythologized, than nature itself. “What is morenatural ...
... example, is merely constructing nature. The difficult but necessary challenge is to move beyond the rather facile and dead-end conclusion that human beings construct their world and to ask what those constructions mean in relationship ...
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