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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... Reading Whitman in the New World, 68 Part Two 4. Nature's Last Chemistry, 107 5. Natural History as Autobiography, 156 6. Hemispheric History as Natural History, 217 Part Three 7. The Muse of (Natural) History, 279 8. Impressionism in ...
... 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 ...
... more generally, but, guided by questions posed by ecocrit- icism in my reading, I couldn't help noticing the centrality of nature in his 1 argument. Walcott insists that colonialism is the “common experience of Introduction.
... ,” a figure also important to Walcott as the adamic, postlapsarian creator of a New World, similarly fails to live up to his male colonizer billing because of his openness to raw, regenerative nature. Reading 4 | Introduction.
... Reading about the geological phenomenon of a new volcano and “an island being born,” Bishop's Crusoe recalls that “my poor island's still / un-rediscovered, unrenamable. / None ofthe books has ever got it right” (162). As her Crusoe's ...
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