Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
Contributors: Kenneth Haltman (Translator)
Series: Bachelard Translation Series
Publisher: Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture
Published: April 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780911005189
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Phoenix (Mythical bird); Fire; Literary Collections; Literature: Classics; Prometheus (Greek deity); Empedocles; Essays
First sentence: WHEN SOME twenty years ago (or is it twenty-five-where the life of the mind is concerned, who can say just when a lasting change occurs?), I first became interested in the problem of literary imagery, quite in the margins of my regular work as a science teacher, I believed so narrowly defined a concern might be simply treated and did not require the tools of philosophy.