The Poetry of Life in Literature [Paperback]

Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics.Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics.Acknowledgements. The Theme/Poetry of Life. Section I. The Poetry of Life Between Construction and Deconstruction; H.H. Rudnick. Reflections Upon `My (Unreflected) Life': M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian's Poetics of `Genetic Phenomenology' in My Life; M.-Q. Ma. Poetry, Life, Literature; L. Kimmel. Of the Foundations of the Poetry of Life: Gerard Manley Hopkins on Self and World; J. Garc?a-G?omez. Section II. Mending Icarus' Wing: The Poetics of Descent;lCß