Table of Contents

The Theme/The Passions of the Earth.- The Theme/The Passions of the Earth.- Section I.- Walking the Elemental Earth: Phenomenological and Literary “Foot Notes”.- ...And Unto Dust Return: The Remembered Earth.- The Splendor of the Earth - The Myth of the Fall in Walker Percy’s Second Coming.- Coleridge and the Appearing Earth: An Essay on the Other in Language.- Section II.- Radical Empiricism and Phenomenological Descriptiveness in Friar Laurence’s “Earth Monologue” in Romeo and Juliet.- Re-seeding the Burnt Wasteland: W. S. Merwin’s The Rain in the Trees.- The Concept of “Earth” in Heidegger: History and the “Oblivion of Being”.- Section III.- Phenomenology of the Amorous Life: Literature, Earth, and the Absence of the Interval.- Earth, Home, and Exile: Being in Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger.- Toward the Poetic Constitution of Nature: Remarks on José María Heredia’s Work.- Motherland: Sally Mann’s Proustian Song of the Earth.- Gadamer’s Debt to Husserl.- Section IV.- The Common Grounds of Philosophic and Tragic Wisdom: Reflections upon Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy.- An Incongruous Life-World: A Cultural Phenomenology of The Tailor and Ansty.- The Presence of Absence: Mirrors and Mirror Imagery in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas.- Section V.- Performing the Gendered Self in Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier, and the Discourse on Fashion.- The Voice of Enchantment in Massenet’s Manon.- The Splices in My Life: A Documentary or a Fictionary?.- Aesthetics and Negativity: Reading Mallarmé’s “Victorieusement Fui ...”.- The Imaginative Mind: William Blake’s Self-renewing Creative Imagination.