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Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea

From Elemental Stirrings to Symbolic Inspiration, Language, and Life-Significance in Literary Interpretation and Theory

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Editors:
  1. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

    1. The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, USA

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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 19)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Inaugural Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Aesthetics of Nature in the Human Condition

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 3-19

  3. The Poetics of the Sea as an Element in the Human Condition: Literary Interpretation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Resoundings of the Sea in the Elemental Twilight of the Human Soul

      1. Death or Life of the Spirit: <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>
        • L. M. Findlay
        Pages 23-44
      2. The Waves of Life in Virginia Woolf’s <i>The Waves</i>
        • Beverly Schlack Randles
        Pages 45-56
      3. On the Shores of Nothingness: Beckett’s <i>Embers</i>
        • Victor Carrabino
        Pages 57-66
      4. Ego Formation and the Land / Sea Metaphor in Conrad’s <i>Secret Sharer</i>
        • Sherlyn Abdoo
        Pages 67-76
      5. Wordsworth: The Sea and Its Double
        • Meena Alexander
        Pages 77-84
      6. El Mistico Significado Del Mar (En El Lenguaje Poetico)
        • Néstor Eduardo Teson
        Pages 85-98

    3. Man’s Elemental Response to the Vital Challenge at the Cross Section of Ancient Cultures

      1. Between Land and Sea: The End of the Southern Sung
        • Horst Wolfram Huber
        Pages 101-128
      2. Hesiodic Fable and Weather Lore: <i>Text and Context in Figurative Discourse</i>
        • Veda Cobb-Stevens
        Pages 129-138
      3. The Response of Biblical Man to the Challenge of the Sea
        • Ramras-Rauch Gila
        Pages 139-148
      4. The Sea as Metaphor: An Aspect of the Modern Japanese Novel
        • Valdo H. Viglielmo
        Pages 149-169

    4. The Poetic Inspiration of the Sea in Literary Experience

      1. The Poetic and Elemental Language of the Sea
        • Carmen Balzer
        Pages 171-190
      2. The Sea as Medium for Artistic Experience
        • Hans H. Rudnick
        Pages 191-201
      3. Las Dimensiones Poéticas Del Mar Y La Idea Del Tiempo
        • Edgardo Albizu
        Pages 203-212
      4. The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the „Non-Savoir“
        • Lois Oppenheim
        Pages 213-226
      5. Figuring the Elements: Trope and Image in Shakespeare
        • Jerry L. McGuire
        Pages 227-243

    5. The Watery Mirror of the Elemental

      1. Mirror Reflections: The Poetics of Water in French Baroque Poetry
        • Marlies Kronegger
        Pages 245-260
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea

  • Book Subtitle: From Elemental Stirrings to Symbolic Inspiration, Language, and Life-Significance in Literary Interpretation and Theory

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3960-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1906-5Published: 30 September 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-3962-3Published: 08 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-3960-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 509

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology, Language and Literature

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