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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... human and natural domains of history. This involves a recognition not only of the human impact on nature but also of nature's regenerative capacity to heal from its human wounds as well as to persist, at times, independently of human ...
... human world. A return to the elemental task of the poet to name the world in elation is to begin again the process of building a culture of possibility, even if the poet must pretend that it happens as if for the first time. Without ...
... human transformation if not outright destruction of the environment. In the case of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott, however, the evidence is not as compelling as the more consistent pattern in which they discover and exploit the ...
... human language in surprising and unpredictable ways. This slippage is what creates the adamic moment, not some human or particularly male desire to subsume nature's meanings. Biographical limitations are evident in the poetry of this ...
... human memory to amnesia and becomes the coterminous point of contact between nature and culture. In the modern sensibilities of these poets history's liminality in the natural world tempers nature's promise of facile innocence, but it ...
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