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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... island being born,” Bishop's Crusoe recalls that “my poor island's still / un-rediscovered, un- renamable./None of the books has ever got it right” (162). As her Crusoe's ruminations on the qualities of the island demonstrate, it is ...
... island New World community and its more-than-human New World. A poetics emerges in which natural history and human history are mutually metonymic of each other, thus suggesting that nature/culture is neither a sharp binary nor a facile ...
... Island. If Walt Whitman were with us today, he might well give his heart to the new native and bioregionalist movement with as much hope (and perhaps hopelessness) as he gave to his own uniquely enlightened version of the nineteenth ...
... Island Sound, so I can't claim a native's intimate knowledge of the other environments. But that was not my ambition. I suspected that if I could breathe the sulfur fire of a Chilean volcano, feel the motion of the Caribbean Sea ...
... islands played a crucial role in developing an entirely new , universalizing history of natural processes that challenged Adam's significance as a sign of human exceptionality . Although the au- thority to tell this story of new lands ...
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