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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... sense of place within a transnational and cross-cultural space characterized by a history of extraordinary, even exceptional, human and more-than-human transplantation and adaptation since the onset of modernity in 1492. The New World ...
... sense of place in the Americas . Any choice of points of comparison runs the risk of rigidifying the very thing a critic hopes to loosen , but my triangulated readings aim to highlight the value of a third possibility that destabilizes ...
... sense , of Europe's attempt to lay claim to a genealogy of a racially restricted definition of human unity in shallow time . Yet the American continent and its islands played a crucial role in developing an entirely new , universalizing ...
... sense of “caution about the impact or desirability of the works of man upon the 'New World' ” (47). What is particularly important about this history is the warning it pro- vides against overly structural or ideological critiques of the ...
... sense of things by way of words, we do not live apart from the world” (23). Otherwise we only see a world of our own making and ignore nature's capacity to change through time independent of human labor or perception.2 Despite extensive ...
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