Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 2 The Airy Elements in Poetic Imagination

Inaugural Address.- Poetics at the Creative Crucibles Offering New Guidelines for Literary Interpretation.- I Plurivocal Poiesis of the Airy Elements.- Empedocles: The Phenomenology of the Four Elements in Literature.- Fire in Goethes Work: Neptunism and Volcanism.- The Tempestuous Conflict of the Elements in Baroque Poetry and Painting.- Fire Transfigured in T. S. Eliots Four Quartets.- Fire and Snow: The Dichotomies and Dichomachies of Polish Baroque Poetry.- II The Metamorphic Poiesis of Air.- Temporality Puts on Airs: Process, Purpose, and Poetry in Shakespeares Histories.- Filles de lair.- Concretizations of the Aeolian Metaphor.- III The Aesthetic Forces of the Airy Elements.- Le th de lair dans la poe de Paul-Marie Lapointe.- LEtre contre le vent: Aspects du vent dans la poe de Paul Val.- Le Ciel est mort: Mallarmnd a Metaphysics of (Im)Possibility.- IV The Elemental Fire and the Poetic Transfiguration of Reality.- Man against Fire: Alfred Dblins Utopian Novel Mountains, Oceans and Giants.- This Hard Gemlike Flame: Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Accommodation of Fire.- Thoreaus Waiden: The Pro-vocation of Fire.- Flannery OConnor: The Flames of Heaven and Hell.- V Fire, the Poetry of Elemental Passion.- From Fire to Fireworks in Baroque Poetry.- Falling Fire: The Negativity of Knowledge in the Poetry of William Blake.- The Poetics of Fire in Jean Gionos Le Chant du Monde.- VI The Elemental Expanse.- Ruskins Queen of the Air.- Breathless Messages: Phenomenology in Deep Space.- A Poetics of Space: William Bronks Unhousing of the Universe.- Jean Gionos Le Chant du monde: The Harmony of the Elements.- VII The Significance of Literature and Related Topics.- The Significance of Literature According to Contemporary Writers.- The Literature in Life Philosophy vs. Reality: The Role of the River in Beppe Fenoglios Il partigiano Johnny.- The Origin of the Work of Art: Truth in Existence and the Scholastic Tradition.- The Ontology of Language in a Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective: Explosive Discourse in Monique Wittig.- re-dans-un-monde-littire.- Index of Names.