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The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic — Epic — Tragic

The Literary Genre

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Editors:
  1. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 18)

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Poetry and its Role in Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Poetry in the Human Condition

      1. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Poetic Sense
        • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
        Pages 3-21
      2. Movement in German Poems
        • Wolfgang Wittkowski
        Pages 23-35
      3. Why be a Poet?
        • Maria-Teresa Bertelloni
        Pages 37-45
      4. The Field of Poetic Constitution
        • Lois Oppenheim
        Pages 47-59

    3. The Nature of the Poem: Philosophical and Literary Analysis

      1. The Poet in the Poem: A Phenomenological Analysis of Anne Sexton’s ‘Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)’
        • Cynthia A. Miller
        Pages 61-73
      2. Nature, Feeling, and Disclosure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
        • Jeanne Ruppert
        Pages 75-88

    4. Metaphysics of the Poetic

      1. “Fallings from us, Vanishings …”: Composition and the Structure of Loss
        • Meena Alexander
        Pages 91-97
      2. Poetic Thinking to be
        • Zygmunt Adamczewski
        Pages 99-116

  3. The Epic Coordinate in Human Historicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Historicity of Human Existence “Ciphered” in the Great Epos

      1. The Shield and the Horizon: Homeric Ekphrasis and History
        • L. M. Findlay
        Pages 163-174
      2. The Myth of Man in the Hebraic Epic
        • Gila Ramras-Rauch
        Pages 175-183
      3. On Medieval Interpretation and Mythology
        • Jesse Gellrich
        Pages 185-193
      4. The Epic Element in Japanese Literature
        • Valdo H. Viglielmo
        Pages 195-208
      5. A Long Day’s Journey into Night: The Historicity of Human Existence Unfolding in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
        • Beverly Ann Schlack
        Pages 209-224

    3. The Existential Significance of Rhetoric

      1. The Existential Sources of Rhetoric: A Comparison between Traditional Epic and Modern Narrative
        • Angel Medina
        Pages 227-240
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic — Epic — Tragic

  • Book Subtitle: The Literary Genre

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6315-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1702-3Published: 30 September 1984

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6315-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 573

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

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