| The Theme | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| De Patria Mea: The Passion for Place as the Thread Leading Out of the Labyrinth of Life | p. 3 |
| The Locus Amoenus: On the Literary Evolution of the Relationship between the Human Being and Nature | p. 23 |
| Spenser's Poetic Phenomenology: Humanism and the Recovery of Place | p. 35 |
| The Asrama-Anthem: Tagore's Passion for Santiniketan | p. 45 |
| The Elemental Space of Passion: The Topos of Purgatory in Beckett's Play | p. 49 |
| Apples without Snakes: Proust's Sapphic/Organic Rewritings of Eden | p. 59 |
| The Archetype of the House in The Great Gatsby | p. 71 |
| The Elemental Passion of Home and Walker Percy's Lancelot | p. 81 |
| The Imperfect and the All-Too-Perfect Home: The House as Existential Symbol in Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" and Thomas Bernhard's Correction | p. 89 |
| Inter-View: Emily Dickinson and the Displaced Place of Passion | p. 101 |
| From Profane Space to the Sacred Place or Center in Desert by Le Clezio | p. 121 |
| Languageless Places and Poetic Language: The Boundless Desire of Cannibal Clement X | p. 135 |
| "Before Daybreak": The Unfinished Quest of Washington Irving's Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow | p. 145 |
| Journeys Home: The Pathos of Place | p. 163 |
| Poetry as a Worldly Vocation: Home and Homelessness in Rilke's Das Stunden-Buch | p. 173 |
| A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Homer, Heraclitus, Heidegger | p. 213 |
| The Passion for Place: Medieval and Renaissance Re-Creations of Paradise | p. 221 |
| The Concept of Space in Medieval Drama: Toward a Phenomenological Interpretation in Medieval Studies | p. 231 |
| Medieval Ruins and Wordsworth's The Tuft of Primroses: "A Universe of Analogies" | p. 243 |
| Monet and the Pillars of Nature: Articulation and Embodiment | p. 251 |
| A Vicarious Victory: Cezanne's Paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Dual Nature of Love | p. 271 |
| Les portraits emblematiques de Bronzino, aux marges des pratiques symboliques consacrees dans les arts visuels | p. 297 |
| "Where Is Our Home?" The Ambiguity of Biblical and Euro-American Imaging of Wilderness and Garden as Sacred Place | p. 321 |
| Jerusalem: The Poetics of Space in the Works of Philippe de Mezieres | p. 339 |
| Heaven: Val-de-Grace, Moliere's "La gloire du Val-de-Grace" and Rotrou's Le Veritable Saint Genest | p. 353 |
| "Et in Arcadia Ego" in John Fowles's A Maggot: Postmodern Utopia | p. 367 |
| Index of Names | p. 379 |
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