Table of contents

Poetics of the "elements" in the human condition

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

11-13

The aesthetics of nature in the human condition

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

3-19

Acknowledgments

Death or life of the spirit

The rime of the ancient mariner

Findlay

23-44

The waves of life in Virginia Woolf's the waves

Beverly Schlack Randles

45-56

On the shores of nothingness

Beckett's Embers

Victor Carrabino

57-66

Ego formation and the land/sea metaphor in Conrad's Secret sharer

Sherlyn Abdoo

67-76

Wordsworth: the sea and its double

Meena Alexander

77-84

El mistico significado del mar (en el lenguaje poetico)

Nestor E. Teson

85-98

Between land and sea

The end of the southern sung

Horst W. Huber

101-128

Hesiodic fable and weather lore

Text and context in figurative discourse

Veda Cobb-Stevens

129-138

The response of biblical man to the challenge of the sea

Ramras-Rauch Gila

139-148

The sea as metaphor

An aspect of the modern Japanese novel

Viglielmo

149-169

The poetic and elemental language of the sea

Carmen Balzer

171-190

The sea as medium for artistic experience

Hans Rudnick

191-201

Las dimensiones poéticas del mar y la idea del tiempo

Edgardo Albizu

203-212

The oneiric valorization of the sea

Instances of poetic sensibility and the "non-savoir"

Lois Oppenheim

213-226

Figuring the elements: trope and image in Shakespeare

Jerry Mcguire

227-243

Mirror reflections

The poetics of water in French baroque poetry

Marlies Kronegger

245-260

The St. Lawrence in the poetry of Gatien Lapointe

Cécile Cloutier-Wojciechowska

261-265

On the brink: the artist and the sea

Eldon Van Liere

269-286

The rapture of the deep

Alphonso Lingis

287-297

The voices of silence and underwater experience

Heather Asals

299-307

A contrast between the sea and the mountain

A comparative study of occidental and Chinese poetic symbolism

You-Zheng Li

309-322

Literal/littoral/littorananima

Sidney Feshbach

325-342

Already not-yet: shoreline fiction metaphase

Gayle Ormiston

343-351

Thalassic regression

The cipher of the ocean in Gottfried Benn's poetry

Christoph Eykman

353-366

Derrida and Husserl on the status of retention

Richard Cobb-Stevens

367-381

Nonlogical moves and nature metaphors

Eugene T. Gendlin

383-400

The reading as emotional response

Ynhui Park

403-411

Literature and the ladder of discourse

Horst Ruthrof

413-431

The sea in Faust and Goethe's verdict on his hero

Wolfgang Wittkowski

433-445

Preamble

449-450

What makes philosophical literature philosophical?

Eugene F. Kaelin

451-467

Kaelin on philosophical literature

Richard Peterson

469-475

The hermeneutics of literary impressionism

Interpretation and reality in James, Conrad, and Ford

Paul Armstrong

477-499

Hermeneutics and history

A response to Paul Armstrong

Ac Goodson

501-504

Index of names