<p>INAUGURAL ADDRESS: </p><p>Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka</p><p>SECTION I: THE SENSE OF LIFE</p><p>PRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE <<EXTREME CONTEMPORAIN>> IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD)<br>Silvia Riva</p><p>A SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURE<br>Lawrence Kimmel</p><p>THE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE – CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESIS<br>Bernadette Prochaska</p><p>THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDENTALIST MILIEU<br>Eugene Taylor</p><p><br>SECTION II: THE INWARD QUEST</p><p>THE EVOLUTION OF JUSTICE IN THE ORESTEIA<br>Heidi Silcox</p><p>A DOUBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SENSE OF THE HYBRID OF FATE AND DESTINY IN COMMUNITY IN ACHEBE’S ARROW AND HEAD’S TREASURES<br>Imafedia Okhamafe</p><p>WHAT MASIE KNEW IN WHAT MASIE KNEW<br>Victor Gerald Rivas</p><p>STYLE MATTERS: THE LIFE-WORLDS OF ANCIENT LITERATURE<br>Damian Stocking</p><p>JAMES JOYCE’S IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM AND THE FIVE CODES OF FICTION<br>Raymond Wilson</p><p><p><br>SECTION III: HISTORICITY AND LIFE</p><p>TEMPORALITY IN FITZGERALD’S BABYLON REVISITED<br>Bernadette Prochaska</p><p>ON THE METAPHYSICAL BRUTISHNESS OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ZOLA’S THE HUMAN BEAST<br>Victor G. Rivas</p><p>“MAIS PERSONNE NE PARAISSAIT COMPRENDRE” (“BUT NO ONE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND”): ATHEISM, NIHILISM, AND HERMENEUTICS IN ALBERT CAMUS’ L’ETRANGER / THE STRANGER<br>George Heffernan</p><p>HISTORICAL DISTORTIONS AND LITERARY DISCLOSURES IN D.M. THOMAS’S THE WHITE HOTEL<br>Lewis Livesay</p><p>MORAL SHAPES OF TIME IN HENRY JAMES<br>Meili Steele</p><p>SECTION IV: THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE</p><p>“THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE”: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER<br>R. Kenneth Kirby</p><p>GOING BEYOND THE SELF AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONESELF AND THE SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE<br>Bronislaw Bombala</p><p>THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: EPIPHANY AND SOCIAL COMMUNION IN PAUL THEROUX’S TRAVEL WRITING<br>Bruce Ross</p><p>EMERSON AFFINITIES: READING RICHARD FORD THROUGH STANLEY CAVELL<br>Lawrence F. Rhu</p><p>FAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY AS ANTI-ENTROPIC NOVEL<br>Jerre Collins </p><p> <br>SECTION V: DESTINY, EXPERIENCE AND TIME</p><p>W.B. YEATS, UNITY OF CULTURE, AND THE SPIRITUAL TELOS OF IRELAND<br>R. Kenneth Kirby</p><p>DOOM, DESTINY, AND GRACE: THE PRODIGAL SON IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S HOME<br>Rebecca M. Painter</p><p>MAN’S DESTINY IN TISCHNER’S PHILOSOPHY OF DRAMA<br>Leszek Pyra</p><p>THE SOURCE FORM, AND GOAL OF ART IN ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEA GULL<br>Raymond J. Wilson, III</p><p><br>SECTION VI: THE ARTISTIC QUEST VERSUS THE DISCERNMENT OF TRUTH<br> <br>A SHORT STUDY OF THE JAPANESE RENGA: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVE CREATION OF POETIC ATMOSPHERE: <br>Tadashi Ogawa</p><p>ALTERED STATES: THE ARTISTIC QUEST IN THE STONE FLOWER AND LA SYLPHIDE<br>Bruce Ross</p><p>TOO MUCH HAPPINESS, TOO MUCH SUFFERING… NEVER ENOUGH REALITY TRANSFORMED BY NARRATIVE<br>Rebecca Painter</p><p>THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND LITERARY ARTS<br>Piotr Mroz</p><p>REVISITING STEINBECK’S LITTORAL PHENOMENOLOGY: HUSSERLIAN ELEMENTS IN THE LOG FROM THE ‘SEA OF CORTEZ’<br>Gretchen Gusich</p><p>THE ROLE OF ART IN CAMUS AND SARTRE<br>Joanna Handerek<br> <br>STAGING HEIDEGGER: CORPOREAL PHILOSOPHY, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND THE THEATER<br>Thomas Blake</p><p><br>INDEX OF NAMES</p><p><p>PROGRAMS FROM THE 2009 AND 2010 PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE CONFERENCES<br> </p><p>