Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature Contributions to Phen

Temporality pervades the dynamic joint of existence, and the human being as such. As human beings unfold through ontopoiesis, each move of which punctuates the temporality of life, they, whose life experience, deliberation, planning, reflection and dreami

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Volume LXXXVI

Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature Contributions to Phenomenology of Life

Edited by

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

TEMPORALITY IN LIFE AS SEEN THROUGH LITERATURE

ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH

VOLUME LXXXVI

Founder and Editor-in-Chief: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Hanover, New Hampshire

For sequel volumes see the end of this volume.

TEMPORALITY IN LIFE AS SEEN THROUGH LITERATURE Contributions to Phenomenology of Life

Edited by ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.

Published under the auspices of The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning A-T. Tymieniecka, President

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ix

THE THEME / LITERATURE AND TEMPORALITY

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA /

Editors’ Introduction:

Timing Our Life

xiii SECTION I

A. ASHVO-MUNOZ / A Temporal Chora A. OMRANI / Literature and the Sense of the Past

“A Moment in Timelessness”: Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods

3 15

R. GRAY /

T. E. AFEJUKU /

23

A Mode of Recollection in African

Autobiography

37

M.-Q. MA /

“In an Instant of Time”: The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the “Upsurge” of the Present in Ezra Pound’s Cantos

W. S. SMITH /

47

Ascent Patterns in the Early Poetry

of Tennyson

65 SECTION II

J. S. SMITH /

Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingarden’s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of Literary Work of Art v

85

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V. KOCAY /

Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John Perse

Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and Nietzsche

95

I. OKHAMAFE /

115

P. MROZ /

The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist Novel

129

T. DESPOTOVIC / Towards the Infinite Memory

143

M. DION /

Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue

155

SECTION III

R. M. PAINTER / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral

Cosmos: Alice Munro’s Fiction

173

V. G. RIVAS / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Pathos

Through the Perusal of Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle W. O’BRIEN /

187

Telling Time: Literature, Temporality

and Trauma Tran