A-T. Tymieniecka (ed.)

Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 2 The Airy Elements in Poetic Imagination

Breath, Breeze, Wind, Tempest, Thunder, Snow, Flame, Fire, Volcano ...
Herausgegeben:Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa

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Produktdetails

• Analecta Husserliana 23
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-277-2569-1
• 1988.
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1780g
• ISBN-13: 9789027725691
• ISBN-10: 9027725691
• Artikelnr.: 21260312

Autorenporträt

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Inhaltsangabe

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.