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Author:   Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1988 ed.
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.780kg
ISBN:  

9789027725691

ISBN 10:   9027725691
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   31 October 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Inaugural Address.- “Poetics at the Creative Crucibles” Offering New Guidelines for Literary Interpretation.- I Plurivocal Poiesis of the Airy Elements.- Empedocles: The Phenomenology of the Four Elements in Literature.- Fire in Goethe’s Work: Neptunism and Volcanism.- The Tempestuous Conflict of the Elements in Baroque Poetry and Painting.- Fire Transfigured in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.- Fire and Snow: The Dichotomies and Dichomachies of Polish Baroque Poetry.- II The Metamorphic Poiesis of Air.- Temporality Puts on Airs: Process, Purpose, and Poetry in Shakespeare’s Histories.- Filles de l’air.- Concretizations of the Aeolian Metaphor.- III The Aesthetic Forces of the Airy Elements.- Le thème de l’air dans la poésie de Paul-Marie Lapointe.- “L’Etre contre le vent”: Aspects du vent dans la poésie de Paul Valéry.- “Le Ciel est mort”: Mallarmé and a Metaphysics of (Im)Possibility.- IV The Elemental Fire and the Poetic Transfiguration of Reality.- Man against Fire: Alfred Döblin’s Utopian Novel Mountains, Oceans and Giants.- “This Hard Gemlike Flame”: Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Accommodation of Fire.- Thoreau’s Waiden: The Pro-vocation of Fire.- Flannery O’Connor: The Flames of Heaven and Hell.- V Fire, the Poetry of Elemental Passion.- From Fire to Fireworks in Baroque Poetry.- “Falling Fire”: The Negativity of Knowledge in the Poetry of William Blake.- The Poetics of Fire in Jean Giono’s Le Chant du Monde.- VI The Elemental Expanse.- Ruskin’s Queen of the Air.- Breathless Messages: Phenomenology in Deep Space.- A Poetics of Space: William Bronk’s Unhousing of the Universe.- Jean Giono’s Le Chant du monde: The Harmony of the Elements.- VII The Significance of Literature and Related Topics.- The Significance ofLiterature According to Contemporary Writers.- The “Literature in Life” Philosophy vs. Reality: The Role of the River in Beppe Fenoglio’s Il partigiano Johnny.- “The Origin of the Work of Art”: Truth in Existence and the Scholastic Tradition.- The Ontology of Language in a Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective: Explosive Discourse in Monique Wittig.- Être-dans-un-monde-littéraire.- Index of Names.

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