Livesay / Kafka’s The Metamorphosis: Gregor’s Da-Sein Paralyzed by Debt Collins / Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulkner’s Benjy Doyle / Indexicalities of Image Text and Time
Statkiewicz / "My Dear Time’s Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in Proustĭ. Durante / The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative Process Zacharz / Translation Lost, Translation Regained - On Temporality, or on Being Kim-Reuter / Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaigne’s EssaysĪ. O’Brien / Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma Rivas / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Bathos through the Perusal of Henfry James’ The Beast in the Jungle Painter / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munro’s Fiction Dion / Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Roust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue Mroz / The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist Novel Okhamafe / Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and Nietzsche Kocay / Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John Perse
Smith / Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingarden’s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art Smith / Ascent Patters in the Early Poetry of Tennyson Ma / "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Exra Pound’s Cantos Afejuku / A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography Gray / "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods Omrani / Literature and the Sense of the Past (Tymieniecka) KeywordsĮditor’s Introduction: A.-T. But, first of all, life comes to light as timing itself in its logos. Out of the cross-motivations that the creative mind filters in its temporal synthesis in touch with all the perspectives of existence, there surges the deepest significance of life in humanity and culture. Having the human subject – the creator – at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader’s and viewer’s reception. Human creative endeavor – especially literature – may initiate it. Human communal and social involvement is being challenged in its personal significance to the core of our being.Ī basic reinvestigation of the nature of temporality is called for. Yet today technologies are transforming the temporality of our existence by accelerating, intensifying, expanding our partaking in the world of life. Attributing to that involvement universal laws, constant existential validity and power, they absolutise/hypostasise its rule as a cosmic/human factor: “time”. As human beings unfold through ontopoiesis, each move of which punctuates the temporality of life, they, whose life experience, deliberation, planning, reflection and dreaming are permeated by temporal motivations and concerns, feel that they are engaged in the spinning of a common thread. Temporality pervades the dynamic joint of existence, and the human being as such.