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 ...

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
“Poetics at the Creative Crucibles” Offering New Guidelines for Literary Interpretation....Pages 3-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Empedocles: The Phenomenology of the Four Elements in Literature....Pages 9-63
Fire in Goethe’s Work: Neptunism and Volcanism....Pages 65-71
The Tempestuous Conflict of the Elements in Baroque Poetry and Painting....Pages 73-88
Fire Transfigured in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets ....Pages 89-100
Fire and Snow: The Dichotomies and Dichomachies of Polish Baroque Poetry....Pages 101-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Temporality Puts on Airs: Process, Purpose, and Poetry in Shakespeare’s Histories....Pages 123-138
Filles De L’Air....Pages 139-144
Concretizations of the Aeolian Metaphor....Pages 145-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Le Thème de L’air Dans la Poésie de Paul-Marie Lapointe....Pages 159-164
“L’être Contre le Vent”: Aspects du Vent Dans la Poésie de Paul Valéry....Pages 165-176
“Le Ciel Est Mort”: Mallarmé and a Metaphysics of (IM)Possibility....Pages 177-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Man Against Fire: Alfred Döblin’s Utopian Novel Mountains, Oceans and Giants ....Pages 191-201
“This Hard, Gemlike Flame”: Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Accommodation of Fire....Pages 203-213
Thoreau’s Walden : The Pro-Vocation of Fire....Pages 215-235
Flannery O’Connor: The Flames of Heaven and Hell....Pages 237-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
From Fire to Fireworks in Baroque Poetry....Pages 259-279
“Falling Fire”: The Negativity of Knowledge in the Poetry of William Blake....Pages 281-288
The Poetics of Fire in Jean Giono’s Le Chant du Monde ....Pages 289-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Ruskin’s Queen of the Air ....Pages 301-307
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Breathless Messages: Phenomenology in Deep Space....Pages 309-322
A Poetics of Space: William Bronk’s Unhousing of the Universe....Pages 323-341
Jean Giono’s Le Chant du Monde : The Harmony of the Elements....Pages 343-354
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
The Significance of Literature According to Contemporary Writers....Pages 357-368
The “Literature in Life” Philosophy vs. Reality: The Role of the River in Beppe Fenoglio’s Il Partigiano Johnny ....Pages 369-377
“The Origin of the Work of Art”: Truth in Existence and the Scholastic Tradition....Pages 379-391
The Ontology of Language in a Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective: Explosive Discourse in Monique Wittig....Pages 393-405
Étre-Dans-Un-Monde-Littéraire....Pages 407-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-443