Table of contents

The heart of the new aesthetics

The passions of the soul in the elemental sphere of the human condition

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

11-13

The passions of the soul and the elements in the onto-poiesis of culture

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

3-141

Descartes and Hobbes on the passions

Richard Cobb-Stevens

145-163

Beware of the beasts! Spinoza and the elemental passions in German literature

Wolfgang Wittkowski

165-184

Speakable and unspeakable passions in English neoclassical and romantic poetry

Constance Walker

185-192

Desire: an elemental passion in Hegel's phenomenology

Leo Rauch

193-207

German expressionism and the human passions

Christoph Eykman

209-221

The passion of finitude and poetic creation

On pedro salinas's el contemplado

Jorge García-Gómez

223-283

Longinus' on the sublime and the role of the creative imagination

Jadwiga Smith

225-231

Julio Cortázar

la pasión de ser y del ser

Carmen Balzer

285-305

Nostalgia and the child topoi

Metaphors of disruption and transcendence in the work of Joseph Brodsky, Marc Chagall and Andrei Tarkovsky

Bruce Ross

307-323

Apollonian eros and the fruits of failure in the poetic pursuit of being

Notes on the rape of Daphne

Christopher Braider

325-340

A tragic phenomenon

Aspects of love and hate in Racine's theater

Theodore Litman

343-349

"The gulf of the soul"

Melville's Pierre and the representation of aesthetic failure

Giuseppe Nori

351-367

Love and will in the awakening

Jo E. Jacobs

369-377

The passionate self-destruction of Hester Prynne

Ann Lewis

379-388

Death, and the elemental passion of the soul

An ancient philosophical thesis, with poetic counterpoint

Lawrence Kimmel

389-397

Erotic modes of discourse

The union of mythos and dialectic in Plato's Phaedrus

Danny Smith

399-407

The plight of the couple in Beckett’s all strange away

Mary Catanzaro

409-420

Narration and the face of anxiety in Henry James' "The beast in the jungle"

Meili Steele

421-428

Czeslaw Milosz's passion for "place"

Jesse Airaudi

431-446

L'espace poétique - pour une analogie phénoménologique sans entrave

Bachelard et Calinescu

Constantin Crişan

447-459

The plight of the siamese twin

Mind, body, and value in John Barth's "petition"

Stephen Nathanson

461-470

Hecuba's grief, Polydorus' corpse and the transference of perspective

Marilyn Mell

471-476

Elemental substances and their drama in the Mayan imagination as perceived in Popol Vuh

Anita Padial-Guerchoux

477-482

Fusion of feeling and nature in Wordsworthian and classical Chinese poetry

Zong-Qi Cai

483-508

The passion of apprehension

The soul’s activity as the agent intellect in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

Sidney Feshbach

511-533

Nietzsche and creative passion in Milan Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being

Petra Von Morstein

535-557

Obsessive passion

A structuring motif in Flaubert's work

Marjorie Hellerstein

559-567

Boundaries: the primal force and human face of evil

Lawrence Kimmel

569-579

Poe's "loss of breath" and the problem of writing

Sherlyn Abdoo

581-594

Milan Kundera's polyphonic compositions

Lois Oppenheim

595-604

The semiotics of self-revelation in Eugene O'Neill's the emperor Jones

William Haney Ii

605-615

From passion to self-reflexivity

Alexander Argyros

617-626

The passions observed

The visionary poetics of Ezra Pound

Sanford Schwartz

627-639

Is life in literature a fiction?

Hans Rudnick

641-651

Finitude, infinitude and the imago dei in Catherine of Siena and Descartes

Veda Cobb-Stevens

655-688

Index of names