The Poetry of Life in Literature

Acknowledgements. The Theme/Poetry of Life. Section I. The Poetry of Life Between Construction and Deconstruction; H.H. Rudnick. Reflections Upon 'My (Unreflected) Life': M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian's Poetics of 'Genetic Phenomenology' in My Life; M.-Q. Ma. Poetry, Life, Literature; L. Kimmel. Of the Foundations of the Poetry of Life: Gerard Manley Hopkins on Self and World; J. Garcia-Goomez. Section II. Mending Icarus' Wing: The Poetics of Descent; C. Hammond. The Time-Consciousness of T.S. Elliot and Edmund Husserl; B. Prochaska. Transcendentalism and Poetry by Heidegger; A. Carrillo Canan. Enchantment: The Song of a Text. A Kantian Aesthetic of Poetic Reading; S.B. Cunningham. Dante's Address to the Reader in Face of Derrida's Critique of Ontology. Section III. Wordsworth's Rainbow and Ours: A Kabbalist Understanding of Beauty; B. Ross. Enchanted Objects: Rimbaud, Williams and Baroque Form; W.D. Melaney. Mystical Experience and Sacred Landscape; C. Ardohain. Culture and the Sublime: Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'The House of Life' as an Expression of the English Experience; G.R. Tibbetts. Joie de Vivre; W. Shibles. Section IV. Behind the Celestial Enchantment: The Private Self and early Movie Star Portraits of Andy Warhol; C. Salus. Sublime and the Thought of Art; O. Rossi. The Mardi Gras Indian: Aesthetic Unity and Community; K.F. Volkmar. Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art' and the Phenomenology of Meter; R.J. Wilson III. On the Poetic and Aesthetic Nature of the World; S. Gillies. Weltschmerz or the Pain of Living; H.H. Rudnick.