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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... Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies, edited by the able hands of Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Chapter 3 is a revised version of an essay published in Mississippi Quarterly; and chapters 8 and 9 x | Acknowledgments.
... hand of language to admit its failure to get nature “right.” The New World, then, is the world in which nature fuels poetic energy by undoing and reorganizing the system- atic tendencies of human language in surprising and unpredictable ...
... hands, signifies something eternal that defies the inexorable march of human his- tory toward an apocalyptic end. This is one justification for wilderness preservation, since wilderness expresses hope against the telos of environ ...
... hand, Snyder suggests that we would do well to revisit Whitman's vision. But it is Whitman's energy, perhaps more than the specific outlines of his vision, that is the vital tool for beginning again to rise to the challenge of ...
... hand, to a Hegelian poetics of imperial expansion and sweeping generalizations and, on the other, to the liberating potential of a democratic poetics of the local and the particular. In the former case I examine poems such as “Song of ...
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