Poetics Of The Elements In The Human Condition: Part 2 The Airy Elements In Poetic Imagination: Breath, Breeze, Wind, Tempest, Thu

Inaugural Address.- "Poetics at the Creative Crucibles" Offering New Guidelines for Literary Interpretation.- I Plurivocal Poiesis of the Airy Elements.- Empedocles: The Phenomenology of the Four Elements in Literature.- Fire in Goethe''s W... Read more

Inaugural Address.- "Poetics at the Creative Crucibles" Offering New Guidelines for Literary Interpretation.- I Plurivocal Poiesis of the Airy Elements.- Empedocles: The Phenomenology of the Four Elements in Literature.- Fire in Goethe''s Work: Neptunism and Volcanism.- The Tempestuous Conflict of the Elements in Baroque Poetry and Painting.- Fire Transfigured in T. S. Eliot''s Four Quartets.- Fire and Snow: The Dichotomies and Dichomachies of Polish Baroque Poetry.- II The Metamorphic Poiesis of Air.- Temporality Puts on Airs: Process, Purpose, and Poetry in Shakespeare''s Histories.- Filles de l''air.- Concretizations of the Aeolian Metaphor.- III The Aesthetic Forces of the Airy Elements.- Le thème de l''air dans la poésie de Paul-Marie Lapointe.- "L''Etre contre le vent": Aspects du vent dans la poésie de Paul Valéry.- "Le Ciel est mort": Mallarmé and a Metaphysics of (Im)Possibility.- IV The Elemental Fire and the Poetic Transfiguration of Reality.- Man against Fire: Alfred Döblin''s Utopian Novel Mountains, Oceans and Giants.- "This Hard Gemlike Flame": Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Accommodation of Fire.- Thoreau''s Waiden: The Pro-vocation of Fire.- Flannery O''Connor: The Flames of Heaven and Hell.- V Fire, the Poetry of Elemental Passion.- From Fire to Fireworks in Baroque Poetry.- "Falling Fire": The Negativity of Knowledge in the Poetry of William Blake.- The Poetics of Fire in Jean Giono''s Le Chant du Monde.- VI The Elemental Expanse.- Ruskin''s Queen of the Air.- Breathless Messages: Phenomenology in Deep Space.- A Poetics of Space: William Bronk''s Unhousing of the Universe.- Jean Giono''s Le Chant du monde: The Harmony of the Elements.- VII The Significance of Literature and Related Topics.- The Significance of Literature According to Contemporary Writers.- The "Literature in Life" Philosophy vs. Reality: The Role of the River in Beppe Fenoglio''s Il partigiano Johnny.- "The Origin of the Work of Art": Truth in Existence and the Scholastic Tradition.- The Ontology of Language in a Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective: Explosive Discourse in Monique Wittig.- Être-dans-un-monde-littéraire.- Index of Names. Less