Inhaltsverzeichnis
Tractatus Brevis. - The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture: The Life-Significance of Literature. - I The Dialectic of the Passions and the Elemental Passions in Literature surveying the foundations . - Descartes and Hobbes on the Passions. - Beware of the Beasts! Spinoza and the Elemental Passions in German Literature: Lessing, Goethe, Stifter. - Speakable and Unspeakable Passions in English Neoclassical and Romantic Poetry. - Desire: An Elemental Passion in Hegel s Phenomenology. - German Expressionism and the Human Passions. - II The Sublime, an Essential Factor in the Elemental Passions of the Soul. - Longinus On the Sublime and the Role of the Creative Imagination. - The Passion of Finitude and Poetic Creation: On Pedro Salinas s El Contemplado. - Juilo Cortázar: La pasión de ser y del ser. - Nostalgia and the Child Topoi: Metaphors of Disruption and Transcendence in the Work of Joseph Brodsky, Marc Chagall and Andrei Tarkovsky. - Apollonian Eros and the Fruits of Failure in the Poetic Pursuit of Being: Notes on the Rape of Daphne. - III Elemental Passions of the Soul: Love and Death. - A Tragic Phenomenon: Aspects of Love and Hate in Racine s Theater. - The Gulf of the Soul : Melville s Pierre and the Representation of Aesthetic Failure. - Love and Will in The Awakening. - The Passionate Self-Destruction of Hester Prynne. - Death, and the Elemental Passion of the Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, with Poetic Counterpoint. - Erotic Modes of Discourse: The Union of Mythos and Dialectic in Plato s Phaedrus. - The Plight of the Couple in Beckett s All Strange A way. - Narration and the Face of Anxiety in Henry James The Beast in the Jungle . - IV The Passional Expansion of the Soul: Mind, Body, Space, Being. - CzeslawMilosz s Passion for Place : Soul s Knowing under The Wormwood Star . - L espace poétique pour une analogie phénomenologique sans entrave (Bachelard et Calinescu). - The Plight of the Siamese Twin: Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth s Petition . - Hecuba s Grief, Polydorus Corpse, and the Transference of Perspective. - Elemental Substances and Their Drama in the Mayan Imagination as Perceived in Popol Vuh. - Fusion of Feeling and Nature in Wordsworthian and Classical Chinese Poetry. - V The Inward Recesses of the Passional Soul. - The Passion of Apprehension: The Soul s Activity as the Agent Intellect in James Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. - Nietzsche and Creative Passion in Milan Kundera s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. - Obsessive Passion: A Structuring Motif in Flaubert s Work. - Boundaries: The Primal Force and Human Face of Evil. - Poe s Loss of Breath and the Problem of Writing. - Milan Kundera s Polyphonic Compositions: Appropriations or Disseminations? . - The Semiotics of Self-Revelation in Eugene O Neill s The Emperor Jones. - From Passion to Self-Reflexivity: A Holistic Approach to Consciousness and Literature. - The Passions Observed: The Visionary Poetics of Ezra Pound. - Is Life in Literature a Fiction? . - Closure. - Finitude, Infinitude and the Imago Dei in Catherine of Siena and Descartes. - Index of Names.
