The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic — Epic — Tragic: The Literary Genre

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Aesthetic Enjoyment and Poetic Sense....Pages 3-21
Movement in German Poems....Pages 23-35
Why be a Poet?....Pages 37-45
The Field of Poetic Constitution....Pages 47-59
The Poet in the Poem: A Phenomenological Analysis of Anne Sexton’s ‘Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)’....Pages 61-73
Nature, Feeling, and Disclosure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens....Pages 75-88
“Fallings from us, Vanishings …”: Composition and the Structure of Loss....Pages 91-97
Poetic Thinking to be....Pages 99-116
From Helikon to Aetna: The Precinct of Poetry in Hesiod, Empedokles, Hölderlin, and Arnold....Pages 119-140
What can the Poem do Today? The Self-Evaluation of Western Poets after 1945....Pages 141-156
Poetry as Essential Graphs....Pages 157-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
The Shield and the Horizon: Homeric Ekphrasis and History....Pages 163-174
The Myth of Man in the Hebraic Epic....Pages 175-183
On Medieval Interpretation and Mythology....Pages 185-193
The Epic Element in Japanese Literature....Pages 195-208
A Long Day’s Journey into Night: The Historicity of Human Existence Unfolding in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction....Pages 209-224
The Existential Sources of Rhetoric: A Comparison between Traditional Epic and Modern Narrative....Pages 227-240
Metaphor and the Flux of Human Experience....Pages 241-248
The Literary Diary as a Witness of Man’s Historicity: Heinrich Böll, Karl Krolow, Günter Grass, and Peter Handke....Pages 249-260
The French Nouveau Roman : The Ultimate Expression of Impressionism....Pages 261-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music: Claudel, Milhaud and the Oresteia ....Pages 273-293
Tragedy and the Completion of Freedom....Pages 295-306
Hardy’s Jude: The Pursuit of the Ideal as Tragedy....Pages 307-318
Values and German Tragedy 1770–1840....Pages 319-332
La Destinée de la Tragédie dans la Culture Islamique....Pages 333-340
Toward a Theory of Contemporary Tragedy....Pages 341-361
The Re-Emergence of Tragedy in Late Medieval England: Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur ....Pages 363-378
Tragical, Comical, Historical....Pages 379-399
The Denial of Tragedy: The Self-Reflexive Process of the Creative Activity and the French New Novel....Pages 401-406
Tragic Closure and the Cornelian Wager....Pages 409-415
Intuition in Britannicus ....Pages 417-423
Myth and Tragic Action in La Celestina and Romeo and Juliet ....Pages 425-433
Du Désordre à L’ordre: Le Rôle de la Violence dans Horace ....Pages 435-447
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
The Act of Writing as an Apprehension of the Enigma of Being-In-The-World....Pages 451-477
The Truth of the Body: Merleau-Ponty on Perception, Language, and Literature....Pages 479-493
Fiction and the Transposition of Presence....Pages 495-504
The Structure of Allegory....Pages 505-519
Literary Impressionism and Phenomenology: Affinities and Contrasts....Pages 521-533
Phenomenology and Literary Impressionism: The Prismatic Sensibility....Pages 535-544
Un Modèle D’Analyse du Texte Dramatique....Pages 547-557
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
The Problem of Reading, Phenomenologically or Otherwise....Pages 559-568
Back Matter....Pages 569-573