Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature: Contributions to Phenomenology of Life

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Temporal Chora....Pages 3-13
Literature and the Sense of the Past....Pages 15-22
“A Moment in Timelessness”: Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods (1995; 1999)....Pages 23-35
A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography....Pages 37-46
“In an Instant of Time”: The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the “Upsurge” of the Present in Ezra Pound’s Cantos....Pages 47-63
Ascent Patterns in the Early Poetry of Tennyson....Pages 65-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingarden’s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of Literary Work of Art ....Pages 85-93
Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John Perse....Pages 95-114
Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and Nietzsche....Pages 115-128
The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist Novel....Pages 129-142
Towards the Infinite Memory....Pages 143-153
Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue....Pages 155-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
TemporalRearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munro’s Fiction....Pages 173-186
On the Distinction of Tragedy and Pathos Through the Perusal of Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle....Pages 187-207
Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma....Pages 209-221
Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaigne’s Essays....Pages 223-232
Translation Lost, Translation Regained – on Temporality, or on Being....Pages 233-255
Notes on a Poetics of Time....Pages 257-269
Camus, time and literature....Pages 271-282
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
The “Deepening of the Present” Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative Process....Pages 285-310
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
“My Dear Time’s Waste”: The Experience of Time and Creation in Proust....Pages 311-325
Indexicalities of image, text and time....Pages 327-353
Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulkner’s Benjy....Pages 355-365
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis: Gregor’s Da-Sein Paralyzed by Debt....Pages 367-393
Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Time’s Arrow, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and “The Alexandria Quartet”....Pages 395-413