Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Present eternity

Quests of temporality in the literary production of the "extrême contemporain" in France (the writings of Dominique Fourcade and Emmanuel Hocquard)

Silvia Riva

3-14

A sense of life in language love and literature

Lawrence Kimmel

15-22

The garden then and now

Sense of life – contemporary and in genesis

Bernadette Prochaska

23-29

The evolution of justice in the Oresteia

Heidi Silcox

33-41

What maisie knew in what maisie knew

Victor G. Rivas López

43-69

Style matters: the life-worlds of ancient literature

Damian Stocking

71-80

James Joyce's "Ivy day in the committee room" and the five codes of fiction

Raymond J. Wilson

81-93

Temporality in Fitzgerald's Babylon revisited

Bernadette Prochaska

97-102

On the metaphysical brutishness of life in the light of Zola's the human beast

Victor G. Rivas López

103-131

"Mais personne ne paraissait comprendre" ("But no one seemed to understand")

Atheism, nihilism, and hermeneutics in Albert Camus' L'étranger/the stranger

George Heffernan

133-152

Moral shapes of time in Henry James

Meili Steele

153-163

"The limits of ordinary experience"

A phenomenological reading of "rappaccini's daughter"

Kenneth Kirby

167-179

The kindness of strangers

Epiphany and social communion in Paul Theroux's travel writing

Bruce Ross

181-191

Faulkner's The sound and the fury as anti-entropic novel

Jerre Collins

193-209

W. B. Yeats, unity of culture, and the spiritual telos of Ireland

Kenneth Kirby

213-222

Doom, destiny, and grace

The prodigal son in marilynne robinson's home

Rebecca Painter

223-233

Man's destiny in Tischner’s philosophy of drama

Leszek Pyra

235-241

The source, form, and goal of art in Anton Chekhov's The sea gull

Raymond J. Wilson

243-253

A short study of Japanese renga

The trans-subjective creation of poetic atmosphere

Tadashi Ogawa

257-274

Altered states: the artistic quest in the stone flower and la sylphide

Bruce Ross

275-281

Too much happiness, too much suffering…

Never enough reality through narrative

Rebecca Painter

283-297

The phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and literary arts

Piotr Mróz

299-308

Revisiting Steinbeck's littoral phenomenology

Husserlian elements in the log from the "Sea of cortez"

Gretchen Gusich

309-318

The role of art in the philosophy Camus and Sartre

Joanna Hańderek

319-327

Staging Heidegger

Corporeal philosophy, cogntive science, and the theater

Thomas Blake

329-338

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