Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inaugural Study. - The Aesthetics of Nature in the Human Condition. - I The Poetics of the Sea as an Element in the Human Condition: Literary Interpretation. - A. Resoundings of the Sea in the Elemental Twilight of the Human Soul. - Death or Life of the Spirit: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Thalassian Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. - The Waves of Life in Virginia Woolf s The Waves. - On the Shores of Nothingness: Beckett s Embers. - Ego Formation and the Land/Sea Metaphor in Conrad s Secret Sharer. - Wordsworth: The Sea and Its Double. - El mistico significado del mar (en el lenguaje poetico). - B. Man s Elemental Response to the Vital Challenge at the Cross Section of Ancient Cultures. - Between Land and Sea: The End of the Southern Sung. - Hesiodic Fable and Weather Lore: Text and Context in Figurative Discourse. - The Response of Biblical Man to the Challenge of the Sea. - The Sea as Metaphor: An Aspect of the Modern Japanese Novel. - C. The Poetic Inspiration of the Sea in Literary Experience. - The Poetic and Elemental Language of the Sea. - The Sea as Medium for Artistic Experience. - Las dimensiones poéticas del mar y la idea del tiempo. - The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the Non-Savoir . - Figuring the Elements: Trope and Image in Shakespeare. - D. The Watery Mirror of the Elemental. - Mirror Reflections: The Poetics of Water in French Baroque Poetry. - The St. Lawrence in the Poetry of Gatien Lapointe. - II The Elemental Thread in the Twilight of Consciousness; The Ciphering of Life-Significance in the Poiesis of Art From Interpretation to Theory. - A. On the Brink. - On the Brink: The Artist and the Sea. - The Rapture of the Deep. - The Voices of Silence and Underwater Experience. - A Contrast Between the Sea and theMountain: A Comparative Study of Occidental and Chinese Poetic Symbolism. - B. The Shorelines: Elemental Moves in the Twilight of Consciousness. - Literal/Littoral/Littorananima: The Figure on the Shore in the Works of James Joyce. - Already Not-Yet: Shoreline Fiction Metaphase. - Thalassic Regression: The Cipher of the Ocean in Gottfried Benn s Poetry. - Derrida and Husserl on the Status of Retention. - Nonlogical Moves and Nature Metaphors. - C. Poetic Discourse: Reality and the Retrieval of Life-Significance. - The Reading as Emotional Response: The Case of a Haiku. - Literature and the Ladder of Discourse. - The Sea in Faust and Goethe s Verdict on His Hero. - III Creative Orchestration in the Poiesis of Life and in Fiction. - Preamble. - What Makes Philosophical Literature Philosophical? . - Kaelin on Philosophical Literature. - The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism: Interpretation and Reality in James, Conrad, and Ford. - Hermeneutics and History: A Response to Paul Armstrong. - Index of Names.
