Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea: From Elemental Stirrings to Symbolic Inspiration, Language, and Life-Significance in Literary Interpretation and Theory: 19 - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9401539626 ISBN 13: 9789401539623

Casa editrice: Springer, 2012

Riassunto

Inaugural Study.- The Aesthetics of Nature in the Human Condition.- I The Poetics of the Sea as an Element in the Human Condition: Literary Interpretation.- A. Resoundings of the Sea in the Elemental Twilight of the Human Soul.- Death or Life of the Spirit: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Thalassian Poetry in the Nineteenth Century.- The Waves of Life in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.- On the Shores of Nothingness: Beckett's Embers.- Ego Formation and the Land/Sea Metaphor in Conrad's Secret Sharer.- Wordsworth: The Sea and Its Double.- El mistico significado del mar (en el lenguaje poetico).- B. Man's Elemental Response to the Vital Challenge at the Cross Section of Ancient Cultures.- Between Land and Sea: The End of the Southern Sung.- Hesiodic Fable and Weather Lore: Text and Context in Figurative Discourse.- The Response of Biblical Man to the Challenge of the Sea.- The Sea as Metaphor: An Aspect of the Modern Japanese Novel.- C. The Poetic Inspiration of the Sea in Literary Experience.- The Poetic and Elemental Language of the Sea.- The Sea as Medium for Artistic Experience.- Las dimensiones poéticas del mar y la idea del tiempo.- The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the "Non-Savoir".- Figuring the Elements: Trope and Image in Shakespeare.- D. The Watery Mirror of the Elemental.- Mirror Reflections: The Poetics of Water in French Baroque Poetry.- The St. Lawrence in the Poetry of Gatien Lapointe.- II The Elemental Thread in the Twilight of Consciousness; The Ciphering of Life-Significance in the Poiesis of Art - From Interpretation to Theory.- A. On the Brink.- On the Brink: The Artist and the Sea.- The Rapture of the Deep.- The Voices of Silence and Underwater Experience.- A Contrast Between the Sea and theMountain: A Comparative Study of Occidental and Chinese Poetic Symbolism.- B. The Shorelines: Elemental Moves in the Twilight of Consciousness.- Literal/Littoral/Littorananima: The Figure on the Shore in the Works of James Joyce.- Already Not-Yet: Shoreline Fiction Metaphase.- Thalassic Regression: The Cipher of the Ocean in Gottfried Benn's Poetry.- Derrida and Husserl on the Status of Retention.- Nonlogical Moves and Nature Metaphors.- C. Poetic Discourse: "Reality" and the Retrieval of Life-Significance.- The Reading as Emotional Response: The Case of a Haiku.- Literature and the Ladder of Discourse.- The Sea in Faust and Goethe's Verdict on His Hero.- III Creative Orchestration in the Poiesis of Life and in Fiction.- Preamble.- What Makes Philosophical Literature Philosophical?.- Kaelin on Philosophical Literature.- The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism: Interpretation and Reality in James, Conrad, and Ford.- Hermeneutics and History: A Response to Paul Armstrong.- Index of Names.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9401539626
• ISBN 13: 9789401539623
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 509
• Redattore: Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa
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