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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... things Chilean, Jack Schmitt; my dear friend Bernardo Reyes; the talented Walcott translator Veronika Zondek; the late Eugenia Neves, who recounted her personal memories of Neruda at her house and with whom I spoke late into the night ...
... things that under the pressures of metropolitan norms have been misnamed or are unknown or essentially unnamable. This flexibility is not the result of technological enhancements that remake nature to suit their metaphorical minds, such ...
... thing in common: they seek and often find, hidden relationships. In the most extreme cases, they unite opposites” (Paz, Other 158). He calls these relationships “buried realities” that are “restor[ed] to life” through the poetic ...
... thing a critic hopes to loosen , but my triangulated readings aim to highlight the value of a third possibility that destabilizes the binaries that inform many of our assumptions about the boundaries of human communities , be they ...
... things, from fixity or even predictability. The work of weeding out neocolonialisms in culture, arguably the raison d'être of much contemporary critical discourse, has not yet successfully addressed the question of how we can understand ...
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