Table of contents

The poetic, epic and tragic genres as the existential coordinates of the human condition

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-16

Acknowledgments

Aesthetic enjoyment and poetic sense

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

3-21

Movement in German poems

Wolfgang Wittkowski

23-35

Why be a poet?

Maria-Teresa Bertelloni

37-45

The field of poetic constitution

Lois Oppenheim

47-59

The poet in the poem

A phenomenological analysis of Anne Sexton's "Briar Rose (sleeping beauty)"

Cynthia Miller

61-73

Nature, feeling, and disclosure in the poetry of Wallace Stevens

Jeanne Ruppert

75-88

"Fallings from us, vanishings …"

Composition and the structure of loss

Meena Alexander

91-97

Poetic thinking to be

Zygmunt Adamczewski

99-116

From Helikon to Aetna

The precinct of poetry in Hesiod, Empedokles, Hölderlin, and Arnold

Findlay

119-140

What can the poem do today? the self-evaluation of Western poets after 1945

Christoph Eykman

141-156

Poetry as essential graphs

Teresa Gella

157-159

The shield and the horizon

Homeric ekphrasis and history

Findlay

163-174

The myth of man in the Hebraic epic

Gila Ramras-Rauch

175-183

On medieval interpretation and mythology

Jesse Gellrich

185-193

The epic element in Japanese literature

Viglielmo

195-208

A long day's journey into night

The historicity of human existence unfolding in Virginia Woolf's fiction

Beverly A. Schlack

209-224

The existential sources of rhetoric

A comparison between traditional epic and modern narrative

Angel Medina

227-240

Metaphor and the flux of human experience

Patricia Lawlor

241-248

The literary diary as a witness of man's historicity

Heinrich Böll, Karl Krolow, Günter Grass, and Peter Handke

Christoph Eykman

249-260

The French Nouveau roman

The ultimate expression of impressionism

Victor Carrabino

261-270

The birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music

Claudel, Milhaud and the Oresteia

Marlies Kronegger

273-293

Tragedy and the completion of freedom

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

295-306

Hardy's jude

The pursuit of the ideal as tragedy

Sherlyn Abdoo

307-318

Values and German tragedy 1770–1840

Wolfgang Wittkowski

319-332

La destinée de la tragédie dans la culture islamique

A. Chehida

333-340

Toward a theory of contemporary tragedy

Eugene F. Kaelin

341-361

The re-emergence of tragedy in late medieval england

Sir Thomas malory's "morte darthur"

Beverly Kennedy

363-378

Tragical, comical, historical

Michael Platt

379-399

The denial of tragedy

The self-reflexive process of the creative activity and the French new novel

Françoise Ravaux

401-406

Tragic closure and the cornelian wager

John Lyons

409-415

Intuition in Britannicus

Barbara Woshinsky

417-423

Myth and tragic action in La celestina and Romeo and Juliet

Marilyn Stewart

425-433

Du désordre à l'ordre

Le rôle de la violence dans "Horace"

Bernadette Lintz Murphy

435-447

The act of writing as an apprehension of the enigma of being-in-the-world

Jacques Garelli

451-477

The truth of the body

Merleau-Ponty on perception, language, and literature

Michael D. Riley

479-493

Fiction and the transposition of presence

Felix Martínez-Bonati

495-504

The structure of allegory

Jesse Gellrich

505-519

Literary impressionism and phenomenology

Affinities and contrasts

Marlies Kronegger

521-533

Phenomenology and literary impressionism

The prismatic sensibility

Peter Stowell

535-544

Un modèle d'analyse du texte dramatique

Adnan Moussally

547-557

The problem of reading, phenomenologically or otherwise

Joseph Margolis

559-568

Index of names