Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature ― Contributions to Phenomenology of Life

With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time. Having the human subject – the creator – at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader’s and viewer’s reception. This text examines, among others, the work of Proust and Kafka.

The Theme / Literature and Temporality
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction: A.-T. Tymieniecka / Timing Our Life
SECTION I
A. Ashvo-Munoz / A Temporal Chora
A. Omrani / Literature and the Sense of the Past
R. Gray / "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods
T.E. Afejuku / A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography
M.-Q. Ma / "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Exra Pound’s Cantos
W.S. Smith / Ascent Patters in the Early Poetry of Tennyson
SECTION II
J.S. Smith / Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingarden’s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art
V. Kocay / Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John Perse
I. Okhamafe / Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and Nietzsche
P. Mroz / The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist Novel
T. Despotovic / Towards the Infinite Memory
M. Dion / Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Roust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue
SECTION III
R.M. Painter / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munro’s Fiction
V.G. Rivas / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Bathos through the Perusal of Henfry James’ The Beast in the Jungle
W. O’Brien / Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma
J. Kim-Reuter / Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaigne’s Essays
A. Zacharz / Translation Lost, Translation Regained - On Temporality, or on Being
L. Kimmel / Notes on Poetics of Time
J. Handerek / Camus, Time and Literature
SECTION IV
M. Durante / The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative Process
V. Reed and M. Statkiewicz / "My Dear Time’s Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in Proust
D. Doyle / Indexicalities of Image Text and Time
J. Collins / Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulkner’s Benjy
L. Livesay / Kafka’s The Metamorphosis: Gregor’s Da-Sein Paralyzed by Debt
R.J. Wilson III / Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Time’s Arrow, the French Lieutenant’s Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"
INDEXES OF NAMES