The Poetry of Life in Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Section I

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Poetry of Life between Construction and Deconstruction

      • Hans H. Rudnick

      Pages 3-15

   3. Reflections Upon “My [Unreflected] Life”: M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics of “Genetic Phenomenology” in My Life

      • Ming-Qian Ma

      Pages 17-37

   4. Poetry, Life, Literature

      • Lawrence Kimmel

      Pages 39-51

3. Section II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Mending Icarus’ Wing: The Poetics of Descent

      • Cynthia Hammond

      Pages 55-64

   3. The Time-Consciousness of T. S. Eliot and Edmund Husserl

      • Bernadette Prochaska

      Pages 65-73

   4. Transcendentalism and Poetry in Heidegger

      • Álberto Carrillo Canán

      Pages 75-106

   5. The Song of the Text: A Kantian Aesthetic of Poetry and Poetic Reading

      • Sarah B. Cunningham

      Pages 107-117

   6. Dante’s Address to the Reader in Face of Derrida’s Critique of Ontology

      • William Franke

      Pages 119-131

4. Section III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Wordsworth’s Rainbow and Ours: A Kabbalist Understanding of Beauty

      • Bruce Ross

      Pages 135-148

   3. Aesthetic Worlds: Rimbaud, Williams and Baroque Form

      • William D. Melaney

      Pages 149-158

   4. Mystical Experience and Sacred Landscape

      • Claudio Ardohain

      Pages 159-177

   5. Culture and the Sublime: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s the House of Life as an Expression of the English Experience

      • George R. Tibbetts

      Pages 179-185

   6. Joie de Vivre

      • Warren Shibles

      Pages 187-192

5. Section IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Behind the Celestial Enchantment: The Private Self and Early Movie Star Portraits of Andy Warhol

      • Carol Salus

      Pages 195-207

   3. The Sublime and the Thought of Art

      • Osvaldo Rossi

      Pages 209-227

Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics.

• Edmund Husserl
• Immanuel Kant
• Jacques Derrida
• Martin Heidegger
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• aesthetics
• phenomenology
• poetry

• The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

  Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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