The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture....Pages 3-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Descartes and Hobbes on the Passions....Pages 145-163
Beware of the Beasts! Spinoza and the Elemental Passions in German Literature....Pages 165-184
Speakable and Unspeakable Passions in English Neoclassical and Romantic Poetry....Pages 185-192
Desire: An Elemental Passion in Hegel’s Phenomenology ....Pages 193-207
German Expressionism and the Human Passions....Pages 209-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Longinus’ on the Sublime and the Role of the Creative Imagination....Pages 225-231
The Passion of Finitude and Poetic Creation: On Pedro Salinas’s El Contemplado ....Pages 233-283
Julio Cortázar: La Pasión De Ser Y Del Ser....Pages 285-305
Nostalgia and the Child Topoi : Metaphors of Disruption and Transcendence in the Work of Joseph Brodsky, Marc Chagall and Andrei Tarkovsky ....Pages 307-323
Apollonian Eros and the Fruits of Failure in the Poetic Pursuit of Being: Notes on the Rape of Daphne ....Pages 325-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
A Tragic Phenomenon: Aspects of Love and Hate in Racine’s Theater ....Pages 343-349
“The Gulf of the Soul”: Melville’s Pierre and the Representation of Aesthetic Failure....Pages 351-367
Love and Will in the Awakening ....Pages 369-377
The Passionate Self-Destruction of Hester Prynne....Pages 379-388
Death, and the Elemental Passion of the Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, with Poetic Counterpoint ....Pages 389-397
Erotic Modes of Discourse: The Union of Mythos and Dialectic in Plato’s Phaedrus ....Pages 399-407
The Plight of the Couple in Beckett’s All Strange Away ....Pages 409-420
Narration and the Face of Anxiety in Henry James’ “the Beast in the Jungle”....Pages 421-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Czeslaw Milosz’s Passion for “Place”....Pages 431-446
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
L’espace Poetique — Pour Une Analogie Phenomenologique Sans Entrave (Bachelard Et Calinescu)....Pages 447-459
The Plight of the Siamese Twin: Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth’s “Petition” ....Pages 461-470
Hecuba’s Grief, Polydorus’ Corpse and the Transference of Perspective....Pages 471-476
Elemental Substances and their Drama in the Mayan Imagination as Perceived in Popol Vuh ....Pages 477-482
Fusion of Feeling and Nature in Wordsworthian and Classical Chinese Poetry....Pages 483-508
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The Passion of Apprehension: The Soul’s Activity as the Agent Intellect in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....Pages 511-533
Nietzsche and Creative Passion in Milan Kundera’s the Unbearable Lightness of Being ....Pages 535-557
Obsessive Passion: A Structuring Motif in Flaubert’s Work....Pages 559-567
Boundaries: The Primal Force and Human Face of Evil....Pages 569-579
Poe’s “Loss of Breath” and the Problem of Writing....Pages 581-594
Milan Kundera’s Polyphonic Compositions....Pages 595-604
The Semiotics of Self-Revelation in Eugene O’Neill’s the Emperor Jones ....Pages 605-615
From Passion to Self-Reflexivity....Pages 617-626
The Passions Observed: The Visionary Poetics of Ezra Pound....Pages 627-639
Is Life in Literature a Fiction?....Pages 641-651
Front Matter....Pages 653-654
Finitude, Infinitude and the Imago Dei in Catherine of Siena and Descartes....Pages 655-688
Back Matter....Pages 689-698