The Poetry of Life in Literature (Analecta Husserliana Book 69)

Poetry of life __in__ literature and __through__ literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Poetry of Life between Construction and Deconstruction....Pages 3-15 Reflections Upon “ My [Unreflected] Life ”: M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics of “Genetic Phenomenology” in My Life ....Pages 17-37 Poetry, Life, Literature....Pages 39-51 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Mending Icarus’ Wing: The Poetics of Descent....Pages 55-64 The Time-Consciousness of T. S. Eliot and Edmund Husserl....Pages 65-73 Transcendentalism and Poetry in Heidegger....Pages 75-106 The Song of the Text: A Kantian Aesthetic of Poetry and Poetic Reading....Pages 107-117 Dante’s Address to the Reader in Face of Derrida’s Critique of Ontology....Pages 119-131 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Wordsworth’s Rainbow and Ours: A Kabbalist Understanding of Beauty....Pages 135-148 Aesthetic Worlds: Rimbaud, Williams and Baroque Form....Pages 149-158 Mystical Experience and Sacred Landscape....Pages 159-177 Culture and the Sublime: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s the House of Life as an Expression of the English Experience....Pages 179-185 Joie de Vivre....Pages 187-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 Behind the Celestial Enchantment: The Private Self and Early Movie Star Portraits of Andy Warhol....Pages 195-207 The Sublime and the Thought of Art....Pages 209-227 The Mardi Gras Indian: Aesthetic Unity and Community....Pages 229-234 Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” and the Phenomenology of Meter....Pages 235-247 Back Matter....Pages 249-254