Table of contents

The plurivocal poiesis of the airy element

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-12

Acknowledgments

"Poetics at the creative crucibles" offering new guidelines for literary interpretation

Marlies Kronegger

3-5

Empedocles: the phenomenology of the four elements in literature

Sidney Feshbach

9-63

Fire in Goethe's work: neptunism and volcanism

Hans Rudnick

65-71

The tempestuous conflict of the elements in baroque poetry and painting

Marlies Kronegger

73-88

Fire transfigured in T. S. Eliot's four quartets

Sherlyn Abdoo

89-100

Fire and snow: the dichotomies and dichomachies of Polish baroque poetry

Tymoteusz Karpowicz

101-119

Temporality puts on airs

Process, purpose, and poetry in Shakespeare's histories

Findlay

123-138

Filles de l'air

Serge Meitinger

139-144

Concretizations of the aeolian metaphor

Hans Rudnick

145-155

Le thème de l'air dans la poésie de Paul-Marie Lapointe

Cécile Cloutier-Wojciechowska

159-164

"L'être contre le vent"

Aspects du vent dans la poésie de Paul Valéry

Jean Y. Dupraz

165-176

"Le ciel est mort"

Mallarmé and a metaphysics of (im)possibility

Lois Oppenheim

177-188

Man against fire

AlFred Döblin's utopian novel mountains, oceans and giants

Christoph Eykman

191-201

"This hard, gemlike flame"

Walter Pater and the aesthetic accommodation of fire

Findlay

203-213

Thoreau's Walden

The pro-vocation of fire

John Dolis

215-235

Flannery O'Connor

The flames of heaven and hell

Beverly Schlack Randles

237-256

From fire to fireworks in baroque poetry

Marlies Kronegger

259-279

"Falling fire"

The negativity of knowledge in the poetry of William Blake

Meena Alexander

281-288

The poetics of fire in Jean Giono's Le chant du monde

Victor Carrabino

289-298

Ruskin's Queen of the air

Peter Morgan

301-307

Breathless messages: phenomenology in deep space

Jay Lampert

309-322

A poetics of space

William Bronk's Unhousing of the universe

Beverly Schlack Randles

323-341

Jean Giono's Le chant du monde

The harmony of the elements

Victor Carrabino

343-354

The significance of literature according to contemporary writers

Christoph Eykman

357-368

The "literature in life" philosophy vs. reality

The role of the river in Beppe Fenoglio's Il partigiano Johnny

Mark Pietralunga

369-377

"The origin of the work of art"

Truth in existence and the scholastic tradition

Laura Westra

379-391

The ontology of language in a post-structuralist feminist perspective

Explosive discourse in Monique Wittig

Lois Oppenheim

393-405

Être-dans-un-monde-littéraire

Eugene F. Kaelin

407-433

Index of names