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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa,

Titel

The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3 [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 1990

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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 -- Czeslaw Milosz’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.
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