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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... kind of conversation this book tries to have across the Americas; the American Comparative Literature Association, which has always provided exciting exchange for comparatists; and the Association for the Study of Literature and the ...
... kind of literary recycling project. My environmental metaphors are not mere coincidence, of course, since my objective is to argue for the relevance of poetry in building sustainable visions of human beings in the world. Derek Walcott's ...
... kind of “I was there” authenticity in these readings. As Bishop thematized so well in “Questions of Travel,” it is fair to ask if travel is really more necessary than the imagination, but, as Walcott explores in Tiepolo's Hound, the ...
... kind of place, at finding out that one is not residing in quite the same kind of universe that it had seemed to be, in discovering that one is living in a new world. Is it, after all, an accident that Europeans were discovering and ...
... kind of sight in front of the physical world is to learn to see within time rather than seeing selfconsciously. That is, the human observer learns to discard, ever so briefly, the illusions of atemporality that human self-consciousness ...
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