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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... realities in relationship. All poetic forms and all linguistic figures have one thing in common: they seek and often find, hidden relationships. In the most extreme cases, they unite opposites” (Paz, Other 158). He calls these ...
... realities that often make up our real life” (454). The result would be a New World poetics that not only perceives the newness of a transnational “New World” but also discovers “the possibility of membership in the Ancient World of ...
... reality in the hemisphere is enough to challenge our assumptions about the smooth catenation of the human narrative in the Americas. Ecological understanding suggests that a profound rupture lies at the heart of the hemisphere's natural ...
... reality, this was at least preferable to collapsing the New World into already familiar Old World models of, say, Columbus's Asia. The hemisphere's various differences in climate, flora, fauna, and human racial complexions challenged ...
... reality we need environmentally oriented literature more than ever, especially if it can remind us, as Jonathan Bate suggests, that “although we make sense of things by way of words, we do not live apart from the world” (23). Otherwise ...
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