Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life

1. Front Matter

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2. The Sense Of Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Present Eternity: Quests of Temporality in the Literary Production of the «Extrême Contemporain» in France (The Writings of Dominique Fourcade and Emmanuel Hocquard)

      • Silvia Riva

      Pages 3-14

   3. A Sense of Life in Language Love and Literature

      • Lawrence Kimmel

      Pages 15-22

   4. The Garden Then and Now; Sense of Life – Contemporary and in Genesis

      • Bernadette Prochaska

      Pages 23-29

3. The Inward Quest

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. The Evolution of Justice in The Oresteia

      • Heidi Mae-Marie Silcox

      Pages 33-41

   3. What Maisie Knew in What Maisie Knew

      • Victor Gerald Rivas López

      Pages 43-69

   4. Style Matters: The Life-Worlds of Ancient Literature

      • Damian A. Stocking

      Pages 71-80

   5. James Joyce’s “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” and The Five Codes of Fiction

      • Raymond J. Wilson III

      Pages 81-93

4. Historicity and Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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5. Historicity And Life

   1. Temporality in Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited

      • Bernadette Prochaska

      Pages 97-102

   2. On the Metaphysical Brutishness of Life in the Light of Zola’s The Human Beast

      • Victor Gerald Rivas LÓpez

      Pages 103-131

   3. “Mais Personne Ne Paraissait Comprendre” (“But no one Seemed to Understand”): Atheism, Nihilism, and Hermeneutics in Albert Camus’ L’étranger/The Stranger

      • George Heffernan

      Pages 133-152

   4. Moral Shapes of Time in Henry James

      • Meili Steele

      Pages 153-163

6. The Limits Of Ordinary Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. “The Limits of Ordinary Experience”: A Phenomenological Reading of “Rappaccini’s Daughter”

      • R. Kenneth Kirby

      Pages 167-179

   3. The Kindness of Strangers: Epiphany and Social Communion in Paul Theroux’s Travel Writing

      • Bruce Ross

      Pages 181-191

   4. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as Anti-Entropic Novel

      • Jerre Collins

      Pages 193-209

7. Destiny, Experience and Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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“There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate”, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of “the sense of life”, “the inward quest”, “the frames of experience” in reaching the inward sources of what we call ‘destiny’ inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.

• Albert Camus
• Anton Chekhov
• Arts
• Babylon Revisted
• D.M. Thomas
• Destiny
• Dominque Fourcade
• Doom
• Emmanuel Hocquard
• Faulkner
• France
• Heidegger
• Henry James
• Husserl
• James Joyce
• Japanese Renga
• Marilynne Robinson
• Merleau-Ponty
• Oresteia
• Paul Theroux
• Phenomenology
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• Richard Ford
• Sartre
• Self-knowledge
• Sense of life
• Stanley Cavell
• Tischner
• W.B. Yeats
• Wiliam James
• Zola

• Advanced Phenomenological Research And, Learning, The World Institute For, Hanover, USA

  A-T. Tymieniecka

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