Table Of ContentTHE ELEMENTAL PASSIONS OF THE SOUL
POETICS OF THE ELEMENTS IN THE HUMAN CONDITION:
PART 3
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME XXVIII
Editor-in-Chief
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
A SEQUEL TO VOLUMES XIX AND XXIII
POETICS OF THE ELEMENTS IN THE HUMAN CONDITION:
THE SEA
From Elemental Stirrings to Symbolic Inspiration, Language,
and Life-Significance in Literary Interpretation and Theory
and
POETICS OF THE ELEMENTS IN THE HUMAN CONDITION:
PART 2. THE AIRY ELEMENTS IN POETIC IMAGINATION
Breath, Breeze, Wind, Tempest, Thunder, Snow, Flame, Fire, Volcano ...
THE ELEMENTAL PASSIONS
OF THE SOUL
POETICS OF THE ELEMENTS
IN THE HUMAN CONDITION:
Part 3
Edited by
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Phenomenology Institute
Published under the auspices of
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: [pt. II The sea: from el""",ntal stirrings to
symbolic inspiration, language and life significance in
literary interpret.ation and theory -- pt. 2. The airy
elements in poetic imagination: breath, breeze, wind,
tr.mpest, thunder, snow, flame, fire, volcano -- pt. 3.
The el"""",tal passions of the soul.
I. Four element.s (Philosophy) in literature.
1. Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. ll. World Inst.itute for
Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning.
Ill. International Socir.ty for Phenomenology and
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE THEME xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Xlll
TRACT ATUS BREVIS
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / The Passions of the Soul
and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture: The Life
Significance of Literature 3
PART I
THE DIALECTIC OF THE PASSIONS AND THE
ELEMENTAL PASSIONS IN LITERATURE
- surveying the foundations -
RICHARD COBB-STEVENS I Descartes and Hobbes on the
Passions 145
WOLFGANG WITTKOWSKI / Beware of the Beasts! Spinoza
and the Elemental Passions in German Literature: Lessing,
Goethe, Stifter 165
CONST ANCE WALKER / Speakable and Unspeakable Pas-
sions in English Neoclassical and Romantic Poetry 185
LEO RAUCH / Desire: An Elemental Passion in Hegel's
Phenomenology 193
CHRISTOPH EYKMAN / German Expressionism and the
Human Passions 209
PART II
THE SUBLIME, AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE
ELEMENTAL PASSIONS OF THE SOUL
JADWIGA S. SMITH / Longinus' On the Sublime and the Role
of the Creative Imagination 225
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JORGE GARCiA-GOMEZ I The Passion of Finitude and
Poetic Creation: On Pedro Salinas's El Contemplado 233
CARMEN BALZER I Juilo Cortazar: La pasion de ser y del ser 285
BRUCE ROSS I Nostalgia and the Child Topoi: Metaphors of
Disruption and Transcendence in the Work of Joseph
Brodsky, Marc Chagall and Andrei Tarkovsky 307
CHRISTOPHER S. BRAIDER I Apollonian Eros and the
Fruits of Failure in the Poetic Pursuit of Being: Notes on the
Rape of Daphne 325
PART III
ELEMENTAL PASSIONS OF THE SOUL:
LOVE AND DEATH
THEODORE LITMAN I A Tragic Phenomenon: Aspects of
Love and Hate in Racine's Theater 343
GIUSEPPE NORI I "The Gulf of the Soul": Melville's Pierre
and the Representation of Aesthetic Failure 351
JO ELLEN JACOBS I Love and Will in The Awakening 369
ANN C. LEWIS I The Passionate Self-Destruction of Hester
Prynne 379
LA WRENCE KIMMEL I Death, and the Elemental Passion of
the Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, with Poetic
Counterpoint 389
DANNY L. SMITH I Erotic Modes of Discourse: The Union of
Mythos and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedrus 399
MARY F. CATANZARO I The Plight of the Couple in
Beckett's All Strange Away 409
MElLI STEELE I Narration and the Face of Anxiety in Henry
James' "The Beast in the Jungle" 421
PART IV
THE PASSIONAL EXPANSION OF THE SOUL:
MIND, BODY, SPACE, BEING
JESSE T. AIRAUDI I Czeslaw Milosz's Passion for "Place":
Soul's Knowing under "The Wormwood Star" 431
CONST ANTIN CRISAN I L'espace poetique - pour une
analogie phenomenologique sans entrave (Bachelard et
Calinescu) 447
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STEPHEN NATHANSON / The Plight of the Siamese Twin:
Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth's "Petition" 461
MARIL YN MELL / Hecuba's Grief, Polydorus' Corpse, and
the Transference of Perspective 471
ANITA PADIAL-GUERCHOUX / Elemental Substances and
Their Drama in the Mayan Imagination as Perceived in Popol
Yuh 477
CAl ZONG-QI / Fusion of Feeling and Nature in Words-
worthian and Classical Chinese Poetry 483
PART V
THE INWARD RECESSES OF THE PASSIONAL SOUL
SIDNEY FESHBACH / The Passion of Apprehension: The
Soul's Activity as the Agent Intellect in James Joyce's
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 511
PETRA VON MORSTEIN / Nietzsche and Creative Passion in
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness ofB eing 535
MARJORIE H. HELLERSTEIN / Obsessive Passion: A Struc-
turing Motif in Flaubert's Work 559
LA WRENCE KIMMEL / Boundaries: The Primal Force and
Human Face of Evil 569
SHERL YN ABDOO / Poe's "Loss of Breath" and the Problem
of Writing 581
LOIS OPPENHEIM / Milan Kundera's Polyphonic Composi-
tions: Appropriations or Disseminations? 595
WILLIAM S. HANEY II / The Semiotics of Self-Revelation in
Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones 605
ALEXANDER J. ARGYROS / From Passion to Self-Reflexiv-
ity: A Holistic Approach to Consciousness and Literature 617
SANFORD SCHWARTZ / The Passions Observed: The Vision-
ary Poetics of Ezra Pound 627
HANS H. RUDNICK /Is Life in Literature a Fiction? 641
CLOSURE
VEDA COBB-STEVENS / Finitude, Infinitude and the Imago
Dei in Catherine of Siena and Descartes 655
INDEX OF NAMES 689
THE THEME
THE HEART OF THE NEW AESTHETICS:
THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL IN THE
ELEMENTAL SPHERE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
With this collection the new aesthetics being unfolded by the Inter
national Society of Phenomenology and Literature takes up, arrives at
the very heart of its matter. There is now a criticism that answers the
call of the vital urgencies that press on the human being by plunging
into the deepest sphere of human functioning to the ground where the
vital meets the specifically human virtualities. I have termed this zone
where the creative imagination takes the lead, the "subliminal" sphere.
It is precisely in this response of the imaginative virtualities which the
Human Condition offers for the advance of life that, as I elucidate in
the study introducing this collection, surge the first significant factors of
the specifically human universe: the cultural, the societal, the spiritual.
Since this new type of life promoters is fundamental to the human
universe, I have found it appropriate to call them, in contrast to the
"elementary" factors of life, the "elemental" factors.
Indeed, it is in our subliminal sphere of functioning that the living
individual masters the elementary factors and appropriates them for his
own needs. By drawing them into and through the networks of
imaginatio creatrix, he transmutes the wild numb strivings that blindly
strike out when vitally provoked into aim-oriented, concentrated
powers that initiate and actuate elevated human endeavor. These
"passions of the soul" or "elemental passions" originate and carry
human culture.
Previous Analecta volumes devoted to literature have focused on the
modes of poetic response to the promptings of the Elements. With the
present volume the great framework of our new aesthetics is complete;
it rotates around the axis: Elemental Passions of the Soul - Subliminal
Elements. It has come out clearly in our pi uri-perspectival common
inquiry that the poetics of cultural life as well as the poetics of art as
found in literature centers on the interplay between the elements and the
subliminal passions oft he soul.
Investigating the Elements in the Human Condition one by one is the
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fascinating task which our new aesthetics-poetics proposes. From this
inquiry we may expect further elucidation of the riddles that the quest
for the significance of life raises.
A-T. T.
