Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies

SECTION I .- On the Cosmology of Literature: Parallel Universes and Meaning Beyond Information Rebecca M. Painter.- Skies Passions: Reflections on La piel cieloAlira Ashvo-Munoz .- The Genealogy of Heaven in Poetic LiteratureIon Soteropoulous and George Comtesse.- A Critique of John Searle's View of the Logic of Fictional DiscourseAydan Turanli.- The Recovery of Archaic Truth in Literature: Light and Darkness in the Perception of Space in the Human ImaginationLawrence Kimmel.- SECTION II.- The Disenchantment of the Sky in Tom Stoppard's JumpersRaymond J. Wilson III .- Big Mind: The Nature of Consciousness as Internal Spaciousness in Transpersonal Experience Bruce Ross .- Leopardi's Noncturnal Muse Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith.- Aerial Passion, The Face, and the Deleuzean Close-up: Samuel Beckett's... but the cloudsMary F. Catanzaro.- Wonder of Emptiness Kiymo Murata-Soraci.- On Concentric Circles of Being RevisitedFriedrich Nietzsche and the idea of eternal recurrenceMatti Itkonen.- SECTION III.- Passion's Delirium, Passion's Torment - A Discussion of One Woman's Arousal in Kate Chopin's The AwakeningSaundra Tara Weiss.- Flesh, World and Devil: Towards a Phenomenological Exposition of the Aesthetic Interpretation of Christianity in the Light of Some Tolstoy's Short WorksVictor G. Rivas Lopez.- Valery's Materialist Conception of Consciousness and its ConsequencesInsook Webber.- Cyber-Salvation: Body in Virtual SkiesMariola Sulkowska-Janowska.- "Erit Ergo Spiritui Subdita Caro Spiritalis" (The Spiritual Flesh will Therefore be Subject to the Spirit): The Heavenly Pleasures of the Disembodied and Reembodied - An Essay on Augustine and the Problem of EmbodimentGeorge Heffernan.- All My Son's: Arthur Miller's Sky Play in Light of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/OrRaymond J. Wilson III.- SECTION IV .- Sky that Surrounds Near to FarTony Raczka.- On the Dialectical Condition of the Purity of