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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... experience of the New World " and that American letters can roughly be divided between those who in response to this history produce a “ literature of recrimination and despair " and those " great poets of the New World , from Whitman ...
... experience but rather that it descends into cross-cultural, submarine, and subterranean zones where the poet seeks the dark, unilluminated spaces of human belonging in the larger scope of natural history. As we will see, these poets ...
... experience of the U.S. West or interior regions of South America, for ex- ample. As European colonial experience widened to include greater diver- sities of peoples and climates, seventeenth-century Calvinism, for example, adopted a ...
... experience in the New World tropics, in other words, gave rise to a new sense of “caution about the impact or desirability of the works of man upon the 'New World' ” (47). What is particularly important about this history is the warning ...
... experience of awe . For Bruce Foltz , disenchantment is perhaps the fruit of applied sciences , but the natural sciences stimulate awe in the initial discovery of new knowledge similar to the reinhabitory commitment Buell underlines in ...
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