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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... lands or to downplay the neocolonial gestures implicit in its urge to name the world for the first time. We can consider this latter impulse Adamic, which, unlike the lowercase model, adamic, yearns for purity and innocence and facilely ...
... land. Alternatively, however, if the poet only sees the facts of history and ignores nature's promise of renewal, the past becomes an inevitable prophecy of perpetual New World victimization, both human and natural. What is particularly ...
... the delicate but necessary balance between human and natural histories in a modern world where facile Arcadian returns to the land are no longer plausible. The Mexican Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz in an essay Introduction | 7.
... land, the indigenous people, and nature as a backdrop, but must henceforth totally incorporate them, or be ultimately irrelevant” (452). For this reason bioregionalism calls for “an ecological/poetical exercise that starts with the ...
... lands, seas, and rivers of these poets. I believe, with Whitman, that where you read matters as much as what you read ... land I felt it necessary to establish my own relationship as well. My readings have triangulated their relationship ...
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