PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND EXISTENTIALIST LITERARY THEORY

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

• Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)
• André Gide (1869 – 1951)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
• Frank Kafka (1883 – 1924)
• José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)

• Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)

• Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)
• Gabriel Marcel (1889 - 1973)
• Roman Ingarden (1893 - 1970)
• Marcel Raymond (1897 - )
• Albert Béguin (1901 - 1957)
• Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

• Maurice Blanchot (1907 - 2003)

• Jean Rousset (1910 - )
• Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
• Paul Ricoeur (1913 - 2005)
• Jean Starobinski (1920 - )
• Hans-Robert Jauss (1921 - 1997)
• Jean-Pierre Richard (1922 - )
• Wolfgang Iser (1926 - )
• J. Hillis Miller (1928 - ) (see also Deconstruction)
• Manfred Frank (1945 - )

Related Pages:

• Hermeneutics

Sub-Topics:

• Audience
• Artist / Author

Feminist:

• Phenomenological and Existentialist Feminist Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Phenomenological and Existentialist Post-colonial Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• World Phenomenology Institute:

  • International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts and Aesthetics

  • International Society of Phenomenology and Literature

CONFERENCES

2008:

• The Artist and the Message – Creativity and Communication, 13th Annual Conference, International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts and Aesthetics, Radcliffe Gymnasium, Cambridge, MA, May 7-8.
• Human Destiny in Literature, 32nd Annual Conference, International Society of Phenomenology and Literature, Radcliffe Gymnasium, Cambridge, MA, May 5-6

2007:

• The Artist's Account and Philosopher's Interpretation, 12th Annual Conference, International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts and Aesthetics, Harvard Divinity School, May 18-19
• Existence and Historical Fabulation, 31st Annual Conference, International Society of Phenomenology and Literature, Harvard Divinity School, May 16-17

2006:

2005:

2004:

• Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion: Art, Dance, Digital Art, Film, Light, Music, and Theatre, Ninth Annual Meeting, International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts, Harvard University, May 14-15

• In Search of Moral Standards, Twenty-eighth Annual Conference, International Society for Phenomenology and Literature, Harvard University, May 12-13

COURSES

• Manchester Metropolitan University: Existentialism and Literature (Haase)

JOURNALS

• Poetik und Hermeneutik

• Stirrings Still: the International Journal of Existential Literature

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

    • Dufrenne, Mikel.  The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience. 

  • The Geneva School:

    • Béguin, Albert.  The Romantic Soul and the Dream.  1937.

    • Raymond, Marcel.  From Baudelaire to Surrealism.  1933.

    • Richard, Jean-Pierre.  L'Univers imaginaire de Mallarmé.  1961.

    • Richard, Jean-Pierre.  Poésie et profondeur.  Paris: , 1955.

    • Richard, Jean-Pierre.  Littérature et sensation.  1954.

    • Rousset, Jean.  Forme et signification.  Paris: , 1964.

    • Starobinski, Jean.  La Relation critique.  Paris: , 1972.

    • Starobinski, Jean.  The Invention of Liberty.  1964.

    • Starobinski, Jean.  L'Oeil vivant.  1961.

  • Paskow, Alan.  The Paradoxes of Art: a Phenomenological Investigation.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  • Taminiaux, Jacques.  Le Théâtre des philosophes: la Tragédie, l’être, l’action.  Grenoble: Millon, 1995.
  • Taminiaux, Jacques.  Poetics, Speculation, and Judgment: the Shadow of the Work of Art from Kant to Phenomenology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Krausz, Michael, ed.  Literary Hermeneutics.  New Literary History 10 (1978).

  • Valdes, Mario J., and Owen Miller, eds.  Identity of the Literary Text.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1985.

  • Valdes, Mario J., and Owen Miller, eds.  Interpretation of Narrative.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1978. 

• Selected Individual Works:
  • Eagleton, Terry.  "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory."  Literary Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.  54-90.

  • Miller, J. Hillis.  "The Geneva School."  Modern French Criticism from Proust to Valéry.  Ed. John K. Simon.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1972.  

  • Ray, William.  Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to Deconstruction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

  • Davis, Walter.  The Act of Interpretation: a Critique of Literary Reason.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.
  • Fitch, Brian T.  À l'ombre de la littérature: pour une théorie de la critique littéraire.  Montréal: XYZ, 2000.
  • Haliburton, David.  Edgar Allan Poe: a Phenomenological View.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973.
  • Harland, Richard.  "Phenomenological Criticism in France and Germany."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  200-218.

  • Harris, Wendell V.  Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature.  London: Macmillan, 1996.

  • Harris, Wendell V.  Interpretive Acts: in Search of Meaning.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
  • Hoy, David Couzens.  The Critical Circle: Literature, History, and Philosophical Hermeneutics.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1978.

  • Juhl, P. D.  Interpretation: an Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.

  • Lawall, Sarah. N.  Critics of Consciousness: the Existential Structures of Literature.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968.

  • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Hermeneutics."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  182-210.
  • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Phenomenological and Existential Criticism."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  148-181.
  • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Reader-Response Criticism."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  211-237.
  • Lentricchia, Frank.  "Versions of Existentialism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
    28-60.
  • Lentricchia, Frank.  "Versions of Phenomenology."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  62-100.

  • Maclean, Ian.  "Reading and Interpretation."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  2nd Ed.  London: Batsford, 19.  122-144

  • Magliola, Robert R.  Phenomenology and Literature.  West Lafayette, IND: Purdue UP, 1977.

  • Miller, J. Hillis.  "The Geneva School: the Criticism of Marcel Raymond, Albert Béguin, Georges Poulet, Jean Rousset, Jean-Pierre Richard, and Jean Staronbinski."  Critical Quarterly 8.4 (1966): 305-321.  Rpt. in Theory Now and Then.  13-30.

  • Rapaport, Herman.  "Phenomenology and Contemporary Theory."  Tracing Literary Theory.  Ed. Joseph Natoli.  Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1987. 

  • Ray, William.  "The Phenomenology of Reading."  Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to Deconstruction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.  8-61.

  • Reichert, John.  Making Sense of Literature.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1977.

  • Selden, Raman.  "Reader-Oriented Theories."  A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.  114-133.
  • Sheets, Maxine.  The Phenomenology of Dance.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.
  • Szondi, Peter.  Einführung in die literarische Hermeneutik.  Ed. Jean Bollack and Helen Stierlin.  1975.
    • Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics.  Trans. Szondi, Peter, Martha Woodmansee, Lct Szondi, and Joel C. Weisheimer.   Cambridge: CUP, 1994.
    • Introduction à l'herméneutique littéraire: de Chladenius à Schleiermacher.  Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, coll. "Passages", 1989. 

  • Weinsheimer, Joel.  "Modern Hermeneutics: an Introductory Overview."  Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1991.  1-23.

On-Line:

• Ender, Evelyne.  "Geneva School."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.  Rev. Ed. 2004.
• Gallagher, Shaun (Canisius College): Hermeneutics and Literary Studies
• Lavery, David: The Geneva School of Literary Criticism
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
  • Geneva School
  • Phenomenology (Architecture)

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