Enjoyment: From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature, the Fine Arts, and Aesthetics - Analecta Husserliana 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: The Theme: The Rainbow of Enjoyment: From Elementary Laughter to the Swing of the Human Spirit. Part I: Celebrating Life. The Feast of Life, Joy, and Love: The Laughter and Smile of the Soul; M. Kronegger. The Merchant of Venice: A Triumph of Discrepancy and Mirth; J. D. Hubert. The Smile of the Mind: From Moliere to Marivaux; C. Ruoff. Reveries of Well-Being in the Shih-p'in: From Psychology to Ontology; L. Sundararajan. Bergsonian Laughter in Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah; M. Horton. G. Cabrera Infante and Lewis Carroll: The Aesthetics of Laughter in Contemporary Latin-American Literature; N. Campi de Castro. Bracketing Theory in Leonardo's Five Grotesque Heads; P. Trutty-Coohill. Part II: Aesthetics of the Comic. Not Funny: Metaphor, Dream and Decapitation; R. K. Baum. Exploring Aesthetic Discomfort in the Experience of the Comic and the Tragic: John Marston's Antonio and Mellida and Antonio's Revenge; J. S. Smith. Cannon Aspirin: Wallace Stevens' Defense of Pleasure; P. Rae. The Comedy of the False Apperception: Wilde, Maugham, and Stoppard; R. J. Wilson III. Irony as Phenomenological Technique; M. Stafecka. Part III: The Circuits of Laughter. Philosophy, Literature, and Laughter: Notes on an Ontology of the Moment; L. Kimmel. Comic Rhythms in Leonardo da Vinci; P. Trutty-Coohill. Laughter and Enjoyment: La Fontaine and Fragonard; M. E. McCullough. Plastic Expression and Intuition of Being in Paul Tillich's Theology; V. Vevere. Part IV: Laughter and Aesthetic Enjoyment. Endgame: Beckett's Oriental Subtext and the Prison of Consciousness; J. B. Sipple. Language and Enjoyment &endash; Heidegger andEliot; B. Prochaska. T. S. Eliot and Metaphysical Laughter: A Phenomenology of Reading; W. D. Melaney. Joyless Laughter &endash; Sophocles &endash; Hesse &endash; Beckett; H. H. Rudnick. Part V: Creative Perspectives of Enjoyment. Inter-Relation Between Music and Literature and Between Silence and Music in the Novels by J. M. G. Le Clezio; I. Gillet. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Entr'Acte as Comedic Interlude; G. Costantini. Lu Xun's Allegory of Realism: Psychology and the Aims of Writing; Mao Chen. Naissance du Poeme, Naissance au Poeme: La fabrique du Pre de Francis Ponge; S. Meitinger. Index of Names."

Contributor Bio:  Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa The Theme / Literature and TemporalityAcknowledgments Editora (TM)s Introduction: A.-T. Tymieniecka / Timing Our LifeSECTION IA. Ashvo-Munoz / A Temporal ChoraA. Omrani / Literature and the Sense of the PastR. Gray / "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okria (TM)s Astonishing the GodsT. E. Afejuku / A Mode of Recollection in African AutobiographyM.-Q. Ma / "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Exra Pounda (TM)s CantosW. S. Smith / Ascent Patters in the Early Poetry of TennysonSECTION IIJ. S. Smith / Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingardena (TM)s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of ArtV. Kocay / Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John PerseI. Okhamafe / Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and NietzscheP. Mroz / The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist NovelT. Despotovic / Towards the Infinite MemoryM. Dion / Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Roust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue SECTION IIIR. M. Painter / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munroa (TM)s FictionV. G. Rivas / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Bathos through the Perusal of Henfry Jamesa (TM) The Beast in the JungleW. Oa (TM) Brien / Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and TraumaJ. Kim-Reuter / Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaignea (TM)s EssaysA. Zacharz / Translation Lost, Translation Regained - On Temporality, or onBeingL. Kimmel / Notes on Poetics of TimeJ. Handerek / Camus, Time and LiteratureSECTION IVM. Durante / The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative ProcessV. Reed and M. Statkiewicz / "My Dear Timea (TM)s Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in ProustD. Doyle / Indexicalities of Image Text and TimeJ. Collins / Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulknera (TM)s BenjyL. Livesay / Kafkaa (TM)s The Metamorphosis: Gregora (TM)s Da-Sein Paralyzed by DebtR. J. Wilson III / Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Timea (TM)s Arrow, the French Lieutenanta (TM)s Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"INDEXES OF NAMES