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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... particular service either as readers of drafts, as commentators on papers, or as general supporters in moments of self-doubt. They are Stan Ben- fell, Paul Breslin, Matt Cohen, Deborah Cohn, Edward Cutler, J. Michael Dash, John Elder ...
... particular comparative formulation of a New World poetics. Critics have loosely associated the essay with postcolonialism more generally, but, guided by questions posed by ecocrit- icism in my reading, I couldn't help noticing the ...
... particular shape and outline of the world by means of triple differentiation. To understand the relationship between two points a third provides additional perspectives and relationships that bring land into more clear and ...
... particular challenge to an ecocritical appraisal due to his bipolarity as a poet, which led, on the one hand, to a Hegelian poetics of imperial expansion and sweeping generalizations and, on the other, to the liberating potential of a ...
... particular world into a known and generalized narrative (175). The result was what was known as the “second conquest” of Latin America, as the monocrop industries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries resulted in the “largest ...
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