Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 
Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life 

INAUGURAL ADDRESS: 

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

SECTION  I:  THE SENSE OF LIFE.- PRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE <> IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD)
Silvia Riva.- A SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURE Lawrence Kimmel.- THE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE – CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESIS Bernadette Prochaska.- THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDENTALIST MILIEU
Eugene Taylor.-

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

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PROGRAMS FROM THE 2009 AND 2010 PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE CONFERENCES