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Book Synopsis“There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate”, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of “the sense of life”, “the inward quest”, “the frames of experience” in reaching the inward sources of what we call ‘destiny’ inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.
Table of ContentsINAUGURAL ADDRESS:
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
SECTION I: THE SENSE OF LIFE
PRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE <> IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD)
Silvia Riva
A SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURE
Lawrence Kimmel
THE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE – CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESIS
Bernadette Prochaska
THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDENTALIST MILIEU
Eugene Taylor
SECTION II: THE INWARD QUEST
THE EVOLUTION OF JUSTICE IN THE ORESTEIA
Heidi Silcox
A DOUBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SENSE OF THE HYBRID OF FATE AND DESTINY IN COMMUNITY IN ACHEBE’S ARROW AND HEAD’S TREASURES
Imafedia Okhamafe
WHAT MASIE KNEW IN WHAT MASIE KNEW
Victor Gerald Rivas
STYLE MATTERS: THE LIFE-WORLDS OF ANCIENT LITERATURE
Damian Stocking
JAMES JOYCE’S IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM AND THE FIVE CODES OF FICTION
Raymond Wilson
SECTION III: HISTORICITY AND LIFE
TEMPORALITY IN FITZGERALD’S BABYLON REVISITED
Bernadette Prochaska
ON THE METAPHYSICAL BRUTISHNESS OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ZOLA’S THE HUMAN BEAST
Victor G. Rivas
“MAIS PERSONNE NE PARAISSAIT COMPRENDRE” (“BUT NO ONE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND”): ATHEISM, NIHILISM, AND HERMENEUTICS IN ALBERT CAMUS’ L’ETRANGER / THE STRANGER
George Heffernan
HISTORICAL DISTORTIONS AND LITERARY DISCLOSURES IN D.M. THOMAS’S THE WHITE HOTEL
Lewis Livesay
MORAL SHAPES OF TIME IN HENRY JAMES
Meili Steele
SECTION IV: THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE
“THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE”: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER
R. Kenneth Kirby
GOING BEYOND THE SELF AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONESELF AND THE SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE
Bronislaw Bombala
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: EPIPHANY AND SOCIAL COMMUNION IN PAUL THEROUX’S TRAVEL WRITING
Bruce Ross
EMERSON AFFINITIES: READING RICHARD FORD THROUGH STANLEY CAVELL
Lawrence F. Rhu
FAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY AS ANTI-ENTROPIC NOVEL
Jerre Collins
SECTION V: DESTINY, EXPERIENCE AND TIME
W.B. YEATS, UNITY OF CULTURE, AND THE SPIRITUAL TELOS OF IRELAND
R. Kenneth Kirby
DOOM, DESTINY, AND GRACE: THE PRODIGAL SON IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S HOME
Rebecca M. Painter
MAN’S DESTINY IN TISCHNER’S PHILOSOPHY OF DRAMA
Leszek Pyra
THE SOURCE FORM, AND GOAL OF ART IN ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEA GULL
Raymond J. Wilson, III
SECTION VI: THE ARTISTIC QUEST VERSUS THE DISCERNMENT OF TRUTH
A SHORT STUDY OF THE JAPANESE RENGA: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVE CREATION OF POETIC ATMOSPHERE:
Tadashi Ogawa
ALTERED STATES: THE ARTISTIC QUEST IN THE STONE FLOWER AND LA SYLPHIDE
Bruce Ross
TOO MUCH HAPPINESS, TOO MUCH SUFFERING… NEVER ENOUGH REALITY TRANSFORMED BY NARRATIVE
Rebecca Painter
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND LITERARY ARTS
Piotr Mroz
REVISITING STEINBECK’S LITTORAL PHENOMENOLOGY: HUSSERLIAN ELEMENTS IN THE LOG FROM THE ‘SEA OF CORTEZ’
Gretchen Gusich
THE ROLE OF ART IN CAMUS AND SARTRE
Joanna Handerek
STAGING HEIDEGGER: CORPOREAL PHILOSOPHY, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND THE THEATER
Thomas Blake
INDEX OF NAMES
PROGRAMS FROM THE 2009 AND 2010 PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE CONFERENCES
