Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies [Hardcover]

Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine&these are the life manifestations of the skies.? The concrete visceral experiences that living under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions, sentiments that in their interaction generate their own ever-changing clouds.???? While our intellect concentrates on the discovery of our cosmic position, on the architecture of the universe, our imagination is informed by the gloomy vapors, the glimmers of fleeting light, and the glory of the skies.???? Reconnoitering from the soil of human life and striving towards the infinite, the elan of imagination gets caught up in the clouds of the skies.? There in that dimness, sensory receptivity, dispositions, emotions, passionate strivings, yearnings, elevations gather and propagate. From the Passions of the Skies spring innermost intuitions that nourish literature and the arts.Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, enveloping fog, brilliant sunshine: these are the life manifestations of the skies. This book shows how human imagination is informed by the gloomy vapors, the glimmers of fleeting light, and the glory of the skies.??????????? SECTION? I .-?On the Cosmology of Literature: Parallel Universes and Meaning Beyond Information???Rebecca M. Painter.-?Skies Passions: Reflections on La piel cieloAlira Ashvo-Munoz?????? .-?The Genealogy of Heaven in Poetic LiteratureIon Soteropoulous and George Comtesse.-?A Critique of John Searle's View of the Logic of Fictional DiscourseAydan Turanli.-?The Recovery of Archaic Truth in Literature: Light and Darkness in the Perception of Space in the Human ImaginationLawrence Kimmel.-????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? SECTION? II.-?The Disenchantment of the Sky in Tom Stoppard's JumpersRaymond J. Wilson III?? .-?Big Mind: The Nature of Consciousness as Internal Spaciousness in Transpersonal ExperienceBruce Ross???.-????Leopardi's Noncturnal MuseMarcella Tal#/