The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Tractatus Brevis.
• The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture: The Life-Significance of Literature.
• I The Dialectic of the Passions and the Elemental Passions in Literature — surveying the foundations —.
• Descartes and Hobbes on the Passions.
• Beware of the Beasts! Spinoza and the Elemental Passions in German Literature: Lessing, Goethe, Stifter.
• Speakable and Unspeakable Passions in English Neoclassical and Romantic Poetry.
• Desire: An Elemental Passion in Hegel’s Phenomenology.
• German Expressionism and the Human Passions.
• II The Sublime, an Essential Factor in the Elemental Passions of the Soul.
• Longinus’ On the Sublime and the Role of the Creative Imagination.
• The Passion of Finitude and Poetic Creation: On Pedro Salinas’s El Contemplado.
• Juilo Cortázar: La pasión de ser y del ser.
• Nostalgia and the Child Topoi: Metaphors of Disruption and Transcendence in the Work of Joseph Brodsky, Marc Chagall and Andrei Tarkovsky.
• Apollonian Eros and the Fruits of Failure in the Poetic Pursuit of Being: Notes on the Rape of Daphne.
• III Elemental Passions of the Soul: Love and Death.
• A Tragic Phenomenon: Aspects of Love and Hate in Racine’s Theater.
• “The Gulf of the Soul”: Melville’s Pierre and the Representation of Aesthetic Failure.
• Love and Will in The Awakening.
• The Passionate Self-Destruction of Hester Prynne.
• Death, and the Elemental Passion of the Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, with Poetic Counterpoint.
• Erotic Modes of Discourse: The Union of Mythos and Dialectic in Plato’s Phaedrus.
• The Plight of the Couple in Beckett’s All Strange A way.
• Narration and the Face of Anxiety in Henry James’ “The Beast in the Jungle”.
• IV The Passional Expansion of the Soul: Mind, Body, Space, Being.
• CzeslawMilosz’s Passion for “Place”: Soul’s Knowing under “The Wormwood Star”.
• L’espace poétique — pour une analogie phénomenologique sans entrave (Bachelard et Calinescu).
• The Plight of the Siamese Twin: Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth’s “Petition”.
• Hecuba’s Grief, Polydorus’ Corpse, and the Transference of Perspective.
• Elemental Substances and Their Drama in the Mayan Imagination as Perceived in Popol Vuh.
• Fusion of Feeling and Nature in Wordsworthian and Classical Chinese Poetry.
• V The Inward Recesses of the Passional Soul.
• The Passion of Apprehension: The Soul’s Activity as the Agent Intellect in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
• Nietzsche and Creative Passion in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Obsessive Passion: A Structuring Motif in Flaubert’s Work.
• Boundaries: The Primal Force and Human Face of Evil.
• Poe’s “Loss of Breath” and the Problem of Writing.
• Milan Kundera’s Polyphonic Compositions: Appropriations or Disseminations?.
• The Semiotics of Self-Revelation in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones.
• From Passion to Self-Reflexivity: A Holistic Approach to Consciousness and Literature.
• The Passions Observed: The Visionary Poetics of Ezra Pound.
• Is Life in Literature a Fiction?.
• Closure.
• Finitude, Infinitude and the Imago Dei in Catherine of Siena and Descartes.
• Index of Names.