"There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate", declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of "the sense of life", "the inward quest", "the frames of experience" in reaching the inward sources of what we call 'destiny' inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.

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InhaltsangabeINAUGURAL ADDRESS:  Anna-Teresa TymienieckaSECTION  I:  THE SENSE OF LIFEPRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE <> IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD) Silvia RivaA SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURE Lawrence KimmelTHE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE - CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESIS Bernadette ProchaskaTHE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDENTALIST MILIEU Eugene Taylor SECTION  II:  THE INWARD QUESTTHE EVOLUTION OF JUSTICE IN THE ORESTEIA Heidi SilcoxA DOUBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SENSE OF THE HYBRID OF FATE AND DESTINY IN COMMUNITY IN ACHEBE'S ARROW AND HEAD'S TREASURES Imafedia OkhamafeWHAT MASIE KNEW IN WHAT MASIE KNEW Victor Gerald RivasSTYLE MATTERS: THE LIFE-WORLDS OF ANCIENT LITERATURE Damian StockingJAMES JOYCE'S IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM AND THE FIVE CODES OF FICTION Raymond Wilson SECTION  III:  HISTORICITY AND LIFETEMPORALITY IN FITZGERALD'S BABYLON REVISITED Bernadette ProchaskaON THE METAPHYSICAL BRUTISHNESS OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ZOLA'S THE HUMAN BEAST Victor G. Rivas"MAIS PERSONNE NE PARAISSAIT COMPRENDRE" ("BUT NO ONE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND"): ATHEISM, NIHILISM, AND HERMENEUTICS IN ALBERT CAMUS' L'ETRANGER / THE STRANGER George HeffernanHISTORICAL DISTORTIONS AND LITERARY DISCLOSURES IN D.M. THOMAS'S THE WHITE HOTEL Lewis LivesayMORAL SHAPES OF TIME IN HENRY JAMES Meili SteeleSECTION  IV:  THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE"THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE": A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER R. Kenneth KirbyGOING BEYOND THE SELF AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONESELF AND THE SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE Bronislaw BombalaTHE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: EPIPHANY AND SOCIAL COMMUNION IN PAUL THEROUX'S TRAVEL WRITING Bruce RossEMERSON AFFINITIES: READING RICHARD FORD THROUGH STANLEY CAVELL Lawrence F. RhuFAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY AS ANTI-ENTROPIC NOVEL Jerre Collins   SECTION  V:  DESTINY, EXPERIENCE AND TIMEW.B. YEATS, UNITY OF CULTURE, AND THE SPIRITUAL TELOS OF IRELAND R. Kenneth KirbyDOOM, DESTINY, AND GRACE: THE PRODIGAL SON IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S HOME Rebecca M. PainterMAN'S DESTINY IN TISCHNER'S PHILOSOPHY OF DRAMA Leszek PyraTHE SOURCE FORM, AND GOAL OF ART IN ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE SEA GULL Raymond J. Wilson, III SECTION  VI:  THE ARTISTIC QUEST VERSUS THE              DISCERNMENT OF TRUTH    A SHORT STUDY OF THE JAPANESE RENGA: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVE CREATION OF POETIC ATMOSPHERE: Tadashi OgawaALTERED STATES: THE ARTISTIC QUEST IN THE STONE FLOWER AND LA SYLPHIDE Bruce RossTOO MUCH HAPPINESS, TOO MUCH SUFFERING. NEVER ENOUGH REALITY TRANSFORMED BY NARRATIVE Rebecca PainterTHE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND LITERARY ARTS Piotr MrozREVISITING STEINBECK'S LITTORAL PHENOMENOLOGY: HUSSERLIAN ELEMENTS IN THE LOG FROM THE 'SEA OF CORTEZ' Gretchen GusichTHE ROLE OF ART IN CAMUS AND SARTRE Joanna Handerek   STAGING HEIDEGGER: CORPOREAL PHILOSOPHY, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND THE THEATER Thomas Blake INDEX OF NAMESPROGRAMS FROM THE 2009 AND 2010 PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE CONFERENCES