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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... expression of " awe ” before the wonders of a New World whose beauty has survived or has even , paradoxically , been ... expressions of New World elation in the natural world are categorical reinventions of colonial will . Since ...
... expression of this ambition, which was to have a significant influence on Pablo Neruda, who in his monumental stature in Latin American political and literary life strove to speak for the continent. Derek Walcott does not share this ...
... expressions of the ideas he articulates in his1974essay, “The Muse of History.” Walcott's critics furnish our understanding of Walcott in his unique Caribbean and postcolonial condition, but there is similarly little discussion in the ...
... expression of his ultimate faith that art is perhaps our best hope to save the world. The premise of this study is that until we have learned to tap poetry for its highest potential to transfigure our environmental imagination, we ought ...
... expressions in Latin American literature, and the relevance of the adamic ideal to ecology. American studies was initially a reaction against the overt formalism in the first half of the past century. The first generation of critics of ...
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