Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The passions of the skies

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-9

On the cosmology of literature

Parallel universes and meaning beyond information

Rebecca Painter

3-26

Skies passions

Reflections on La piel del cielo

Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

27-38

The genealogy of heaven in poetic literature

Ion Soteropoulos, George Comtesse

39-48

A critique of John Searle's view of the logic of fictional discourse

Aydan Turanli

49-61

The recovery of archaic truth in literature

Light and darkness in the perception of space in the human imagination

Lawrence Kimmel

63-76

The disenchantment of the sky in Tom Stoppard's jumpers

Raymond J. Wilson

79-90

Big mind: the nature of consciousness as internal space in transpersonal experience

Bruce Ross

91-98

Leopardi's nocturnal muse

Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith

99-107

Aerial passion, the face, and the Deleuzean close-up

Samuel Beckett's… but the clouds…

Mary Catanzaro

109-114

Wonder of emptiness

Kimiyo Murata-Soraci

115-125

On concentric circles of being revisited

Friedrich Nietzsche and the idea of eternal recurrence

Matti Itkonen

127-142

Passion's delirium, passion's torment

A discussion of one woman's arousal in Kate Chopin's the awakening

Weiss

145-152

Flesh, world and devil

Towards a phenomenological exposition of the ascetic interpretation of Christianity in the light of some tolstoy's short works

Victor G. Rivas López

153-178

Valéry's materialist conception of consciousness and its consequences

Insook Webber

179-187

Cyber-salvation

Body in virtual skies

Mariola Sułkowska

189-195

"Erit ergo spiritui subdita caro spiritalis" ("The spiritual flesh will therefore be subject to the spirit")

The heavenly pleasures of the disembodied and reembodied—an essay on Augustine and the problem of embodiment

George Heffernan

197-222

All my sons

Arthur Miller's sky play in light of Søren Kierkegaard's either/or

Raymond J. Wilson

223-232

Sky that surrounds near to far

Tony Raczka

235-238

On the dialectical condition of the purity of poetry, love and madness in tarkovsky's homesickness

Victor G. Rivas López

239-262

Traveling to other worlds

Visitation to the heavens as transpersonal experience in rock art

Bruce Ross

263-270

Harold Pinter's the homecoming through the lens of Amartya Sen's The idea of justice

Emil Roy

271-275

The stream of consciousness

Literary psychology as the first uniquely American phenomenology in the works of William James and his Swedenborgian and transcendentalist milieu

Eugene Taylor

277-299

Index