Phenomenology and Aesthetics

1. Front Matter

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2. The Life Significance of Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. History and Phenomenological Literary Theory

      1. The Concept of Autonomous Art and Literature within their Historical Context

         • Wolfgang Wittkowski

         Pages 3-14

   3. Time and Description in Fiction

      1. On the Manifold Significance of Time in the Novel

         • Walter Biemel

         Pages 17-37

      2. One Autobiographer’s Reality: Robbe-Grillet

         • Marjorie H. Hellerstein

         Pages 39-48

      3. Heidegger and English Poetry

         • Peter Morgan

         Pages 49-59

      4. Expressionist Signs and Metaphors in Martin Heidegger’s <i>Being and Time</i>

         • Michael E. Moriarty

         Pages 61-68

3. Phenomenology and Literature: The Human Conditon

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The Primeval Sources of Literary Creation

      1. Faulkner/Levinas: The Vivacity of Disaster

         • Christopher S. Schreiner

         Pages 71-85

      2. The Recursive Matrix: Jealousy and the Epistemophilic Crisis

         • André A. Aciman

         Pages 87-102

      3. Phenomenology and the Structure of Desirability

         • William S. Haney II

         Pages 103-112

   3. The Experience of the Other

      1. The Voice of Luxembourg Poets

         • Rosemarie Kieffer

         Pages 115-130

      2. The Ramatoulaye-Aissatou Styles in Contemporary African Feminism(s)

         • E. Imafedia Okhamafe

         Pages 131-148

      3. Nature and Civilization as Metaphor in Michel Rio’s <i>Dreaming Jungles</i>

         • Mark W. Andrews

         Pages 149-156

      4. Problems of Literary Expression in <i>Les Nourritures Terrestres</i>

         • Harlan R. Patton

         Pages 157-163

      5. Lucie Sebetka: The Phenomenon of Abandonment in Milan Kundera’s <i>The Joke</i>

         • Aron Aji

         Pages 165-177

4. Aesthetic Reception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Life-Reverberation and Aesthetic Enjoyment

      1. “Essential Witnesses”: Imagism’s Aesthetic “Protest” and “Rescue” Via Ancient Chinese Poetry

         • Mu Yun Ling, Jesse T. Airaudi

         Pages 181-194

      2. Towards a Post-Modern Hermeneutic Ontology of Art: Nietzschean Style and Heideggerian Truth

         • Babette E. Babich

         Pages 195-209

      3. Le Véritable Saint Genest: From Text to Performance

         • Cynthia Ruoff

         Pages 211-224

and the one in the middle which judges as he enjoys and enjoys as he judges. This latter kind really reproduces the work of art anew. The division of our Symposium into three sections is justified by the fact that phenomenology, from Husserl, Heidegger, Moritz Geiger, Ingarden, in Germany and Poland, Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, E. Levinas in France, Unamuno in Spain, and Tymieniecka, in the United States, have revealed striking coincidences in trying to answer the following questions: What is the philosophical vocation of literature? Does literature have any significance for our lives? Why does the lyric moment, present in all creative endeavors, in myth, dance, plastic art, ritual, poetry, lift the human life to a higher and authentically human level of the existential experience of man? Our investigations answer our fundamental inquiry: What makes a literary work a work of art? What makes a literary work a literary work, if not aesthetic enjoyment? As much as the formation of an aesthetic language culminates in artistic creation, the formation of a philosophical language lives within the orbit of creative imagination.

• Edmund Husserl
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Martin Heidegger
• aesthetics
• concept
• phenomenology
• truth

• Michigan State University, USA

  Marlies Kronegger

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