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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... readers of drafts, as commentators on papers, or as general supporters in moments of self-doubt. They are Stan Benfell, Paul Breslin, Matt Cohen, Deborah Cohn, Edward Cutler, J. Michael Dash, John Elder, John Felstiner, Mark Grover ...
... living world and the poet who responds to this dynamic life with metaphors directed at a third party, the reader. In order to aid my own perception of the living world that inspired their poetry it seemed necessary to 10 | Introduction.
... reader of a new sacred text—the sanctified body of the earth—and that reading had the potential to provide a blueprint of human escape from environmental ruin. The colonial experience in the New World tropics, in other words, gave rise ...
... readers are Don Quixote. There is in this exchange between empirical aesthetic experience in nature and the natural sciences the potential, however tenuous, for a process of revision and readjustment according to the story nature tells ...
... readers than with the idea itself. To critique an idea for its mistaken uses is to perpetuate the same bad habits of reading that led to the problems in the first place. Latin Americanism It is a symptom itself of exceptionalism to ...
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