Voegelinian Readings of Modern Literature

Contents

Contents R Acknowledgments xi Introduction Charles R. Embry 1 Part I Pneumopathology and Individual Consciousness “The Iceberg Rises and Sinks Again”: Elizabeth Bishop’s Pneumopathologic Imagination David Palmieri 9 Human Beings in the Metaxy: Dilemmas and Extremes in Henrik Ibsen Henrik Syse and Tor Richardsen 30 “Ce n’est pas ma faute”: The Strange Fortunes of Piety and Consciousness in Choderlos de Laclos’s Les liaisons dangereuses Polly Detels 45 Part II The Loss of Public Order and the Search for Its Recovery Styles of Truth in Dazai Osamu’s Setting Sun Timothy Hoye 67 ix  Recovering Stefan George’s Poetry of the Spirit from the Reductio ad Hitler William Petropulos 94 A Gnostic Moment in Anglo-American Culture: Parousiasm of the Voice in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus Alan I. Baily 118 D. H. Lawrence: The Prophet’s Cul de Sac Rodney Kilcup 152 Part III Existence in the Tension of the Metaxy The Tension of the Metaxy in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Glenn Hughes 183 The Truth of the Novel: Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu Charles R. Embry 209 Between Poetry and Philosophy: The Challenge of Hermann Broch Thomas Hollweck 238 Contributors 267 Index 271 Contents ...