The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life: Passions of the Soul in the Imaginatio Creatrix

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
 De Patria Mea : The Passion for Place as the Thread Leading Out of the Labyrinth of Life....Pages 3-20
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The Locus Amoenus : On the Literary Evolution of the Relationship between the Human Being and Nature....Pages 23-34
Spenser’s Poetic Phenomenology: Humanism and the Recovery of Place....Pages 35-44
The Asrama-Anthem: Tagore’s Passion for Santiniketan....Pages 45-47
The Elemental Space of Passion: The Topos of Purgatory in Beckett’s Play ....Pages 49-57
Apples without Snakes: Proust’s Sapphic/Organic Rewritings of Eden....Pages 59-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Archetype of the House in the Great Gatsby ....Pages 71-79
The Elemental Passion of Home and Walker Percy’s Lancelot....Pages 81-87
The Imperfect and the All-Too-Perfect Home: The House as Existential Symbol in Franz Kafka’s “The Burrow” and Thomas Bernhard’s Correction ....Pages 89-99
Inter-View: Emily Dickinson and the Displaced Place of Passion....Pages 101-118
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From Profane Space to the Sacred Place or Center in Désert by Le Clézio:....Pages 121-133
Languageless Places and Poetic Language: The Boundless Desire of Cannibal Clément X....Pages 135-143
“Before Daybreak”: The Unfinished Quest of Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow....Pages 145-160
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Journeys Home: The Pathos of Place....Pages 163-171
Poetry as a Worldly Vocation: Home and Homelessness in Rilke’s Das Stunden-Buch ....Pages 173-212
A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Homer, Heraclitus, Heidegger....Pages 213-220
The Passion for Place: Medieval and Renaissance Re-Creations of Paradise....Pages 221-230
The Concept of Space in Medieval Drama: Toward a Phenomenological Interpretation in Medieval Studies....Pages 231-239
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Medieval Ruins and Wordsworth’s The Tuft of Primroses : “A Universe of Analogies”....Pages 243-249
Monet and the Pillars of Nature: Articulation and Embodiment....Pages 251-269
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A Vicarious Victory: Cézanne’s Paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Dual Nature of Love....Pages 271-296
Les Portraits Emblématiques de Bronzino, aux Marges des Pratiques Symboliques Consacrées dans les Arts Visuels....Pages 297-317
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“Where is Our Home?”: The Ambiguity of Biblical and Euro-American Imaging of Wilderness and Garden as Sacred Place....Pages 321-338
Jerusalem: The Poetics of Space in the Works of Philippe de Mézières....Pages 339-352
Heaven: Val-de-Grâce, Molière’s “La Gloire du Val-de-Grâce” and Rotrou’s le Veritable Saint Genest ....Pages 353-366
“Et in Arcadia Ego” in John Fowles’s A Maggot : Postmodern Utopia....Pages 367-378
Back Matter....Pages 379-388