Metamorphosis

Chapter 1 “ Everything Flows ”: The Poetics of Transformation

Chapter 2 Rustic Architecture: The Metamorphosis of Nature and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 3 “Mythical Physicality” in the Work of Luis Barragan

Chapter 4 Saint-Amant, Holland House, and The Queen of England

Chapter 5 Defining Boundaries in Theatrical and Ceremonial Space in the Middle Ages

Chapter 6 Life and Human Struggle in Moby Dick

Chapter 7 Fiery Purification: Artaud’s Theater of Metamorphoses

Chapter 8 Bel Esprit

Chapter 9 Fly Thought on Golden Wings: The Transforming Power of Music in Verdi’s Nabucco

Chapter 10 Challenge to a National School at Risk: Mikel Dufrenne’s The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953)

Chapter 11 Painterly Transubstantiations/Political Change

Chapter 12 Fugitive Realities: Konrad Fiedler

Chapter 13 The Primacy of Gesture: Phenomenology and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy

Chapter 14 Gestural Abstraction and the Fleshiness of Paint

Chapter 15 Flesh of the World: The Art and Practice of Dunya McPherson

Chapter 16 The Genesis of Clay Figurative Sculpture in California, 1955–1974: Potter and Pot, an Intersubjective Encounter in the Work of Peter Voulkos

Chapter 17 Between Canvas and Celluloid

Chapter 18 A Sense of Direction: The Phenomenon of the Authentic Artistic Choice

Chapter 19 The Image Made Flesh: A Photographic Re-Reading of the Pygmalian Myth

Chapter 20 Perception, Phenomenology and the Object as Actor: The Evidence of Form in Redmoon Theater’s Hunchback

Chapter 21 Playing with the Void

Chapter 22 St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures : the Metamorphic Effect of Poverty on Writing Poetry

Chapter 23 The Dance of the Angels, the Mysteries of Pseudo-Dionysius and the Architecture of Gothic Cathedrals

Chapter 24 A Portrait of the Artist as a Sophist — Plato and Iris Murdoch’s Art of Fiction

Chapter 25 Interprettng Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Basis of Tymieniecka’s Socio-Communal Psychiatric Therapeutics

Chapter 26 The Restitution of the Terrestrial Iconography of St. Francis in the Post-Trent Era: Annibale Carracci’s St. Francis in Penitence

Chapter 27 The Dream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides’ Bacchae , Shakespeare’s The Tempest , and Stevens’ “Of Modern Poetry”