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 you, Seas. Being able to read our largest dreams of them all, will you leave us, one evening, will you deliver us to urban faces, among public stones and bronze vines? Larger, 0 crowd, our audience on this basin of a never aging age: the Sea, vaste and green dawn to the East of humankind The Sea, feasting on its steps. Ode of stone, watches and feasts, on our borders; mumbles and feasts at men's stature -the Sea itself our city, as if by divine decree established. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Aesthetics of Nature in the Human Condition....Pages 3-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Death or Life of the Spirit: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ....Pages 23-44 The Waves of Life in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves ....Pages 45-56 On the Shores of Nothingness: Beckett’s Embers ....Pages 57-66 Ego Formation and the Land / Sea Metaphor in Conrad’s Secret Sharer ....Pages 67-76 Wordsworth: The Sea and Its Double....Pages 77-84 El Mistico Significado Del Mar (En El Lenguaje Poetico)....Pages 85-98 Between Land and Sea: The End of the Southern Sung....Pages 101-128 Hesiodic Fable and Weather Lore: Text and Context in Figurative Discourse ....Pages 129-138 The Response of Biblical Man to the Challenge of the Sea....Pages 139-148 The Sea as Metaphor: An Aspect of the Modern Japanese Novel....Pages 149-169 The Poetic and Elemental Language of the Sea....Pages 171-190 The Sea as Medium for Artistic Experience....Pages 191-201 Las Dimensiones Poéticas Del Mar Y La Idea Del Tiempo....Pages 203-212 The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the „Non-Savoir“....Pages 213-226 Figuring the Elements: Trope and Image in Shakespeare....Pages 227-243 Mirror Reflections: The Poetics of Water in French Baroque Poetry....Pages 245-260 The St. Lawrence in the Poetry of Gatien Lapointe....Pages 261-265 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 On the Brink: The Artist and the Sea....Pages 269-286 The Rapture of the Deep....Pages 287-297 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 The Voices of Silence and Underwater Experience....Pages 299-307 A Contrast Between the Sea and the Mountain: A Comparative Study of Occidental and Chinese Poetic Symbolism....Pages 309-322 Literal/Littoral/Littorananima....Pages 325-342 Already Not-Yet: Shoreline Fiction Metaphase....Pages 343-351 Thalassic Regression: The Cipher of the Ocean in Gottfried Benn’s Poetry....Pages 353-366 Derrida and Husserl on the Status of Retention....Pages 367-381 Nonlogical Moves and Nature Metaphors....Pages 383-400 The Reading as Emotional Response....Pages 403-411 Literature and the Ladder of Discourse....Pages 413-431 The Sea in Faust and Goethe’s Verdict on His Hero....Pages 433-445 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 Preamble....Pages 449-450 What Makes Philosophical Literature Philosophical?....Pages 451-467 Kaelin on Philosophical Literature....Pages 469-475 The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism: Interpretation and Reality in James, Conrad, and Ford....Pages 477-499 Hermeneutics and History: A Response to Paul Armstrong....Pages 501-504 Back Matter....Pages 505-509