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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... important criticism to suggest an equally dangerous risk of assuming that expressions of New World elation in the natural world are categorical reinventions of colonial will . Since colonialism in the American hemisphere has left social ...
... ,” a figure also important to Walcott as the adamic, postlapsarian creator of a New World, similarly fails to live up to his male colonizer billing because of his openness to raw, regenerative nature. Reading 4 | Introduction.
... important as the latest hybrid technologies. Its hybridity lies in its strange fusions of natural and human histories, allowing us to catch glimpses of our natural belonging as well as of our unique human opportunities to choose to act ...
... important for literary criticism to take science more seriously . This is for many reasons , not the least of which is the paucity of memory of such deep time in modern life . Deep time is inconvenient to modern society , as many of the ...
... important about this history is the warning it pro- vides against overly structural or ideological critiques of the myth of Eden as it was imposed upon the American hemisphere. Merchant, Margarita Zamora, and others have argued for a ...
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