The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life

Inaugural Study: De patria mea:The Passion for Place as the Thread Leading out of the Labyrinth of Life; A-T. Tymieniecka. Part One: Poetising Place at the Frontiers of Nostalgia. The Locus amoenus: On the Literary Evolution of the Relationship between the Human Being and Nature; H.H. Rudnick. Spenser's Poetic Phenomenology: Humanism and the Recovery of Place; W.D. Melaney. The Asrama-Anthem: Tagore's Passion for Santiniketan; S. Ray. The Elemental Space of Passion: the Topos of Purgatory in Beckett's Play; M.F. Catanzaro. Apples without Snakes: Proust's Sapphic/Organic Rewritings of Eden; B.S. Watson. Part Two: The Elemental Rootedness -- House and Home. The Archetype of the House in The Great Gatsby; N. Campi de Castro. The Elemental Passion of Home in Walker Percy's Lancelot; B. Prochaska. The Imperfect and the All-Too-Perfect Home: the House as Existential Symbol in Franz Kafka's `The Burrow' and Thomas Bernhard's Correction; Ch. Eykman. Inter-View: Emily Dickinson and the Displaced Place of Passion; D. Sullivan. Part Three: Intimate Places. From Profane Space to the Sacred Place or Center in Désert by Le Clézio; M. Kronegger. Languageless Places and Poetic Language: the Boundless Desire of Cannibal Clément X; L. Dunton-Downer. `Before Daybreak': the Unfinished Quest of Washington Irving's Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; S. Abdoo. Part Four: Elemental Poetics of Place in the Perspective of Arche, Telos, Pathos. Journeys Home: the Pathos of Place; L. Kimmel. Poetry as a Worldly Vocation: Home and Homelessness in Rilke's Das Stunden-buch; J. GarcíaGómez. A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Homer, Heraclitus, Heidegger; D. Schur. The Passion for Place: Medieval and Renaissance Re-Creations of Paradise; C. Raffini. The Concept of Space in Medieval Drama: Toward a Phenomenological Interpretation in Medieval Studies; J.S. Smith. Part Five: Plasticity of Place in Creative Imagination. Medieval Ruins and Wordsworth's The Tuft of Primroses: `a Universe of Analogies'; W.S. Smith. Monet and the Pillars of Nature: Articulation and Embodiment; E.N. van Liere. A Vicarious Victory: Cézanne's Paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Dual Nature of Love; M. Losch. Les portraits emblématiques de Bronzino, aux marges des pratiques symboliques consacrées dans les arts visuels; A. Laframboise. Part Six: Poetic Associations, Transpositions, Transformations. `Where is our Home?' the Ambiguity of Biblical and Euro-American Imaging of Wilderness and Garden as Sacred Place; G.L. Scheper. Jerusalem: the Poetics of Space in the Works of Philippe de Mézières; J.B. Williamson. Heaven: Val-de-Grâce, Molière's `La gloire du Val-de-Grâce' and Rotrou's Le véritable Saint Genest; C. Osowiec Ruoff. `Et in Arcadia ego' in John Fowles's A Maggot: Postmodern Utopia; R.J. Wilson III. Index of Names.