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This book is a magical collection of seven bedtime stories for 6 to
9 year olds -- one story for each night of the week, each featuring
one of the seven colours of the rainbow. The stories are all new,
yet have a timeless, dreamy quality to them, which is perfect for
sleepy night-time reading. The seven stories form a harmonious
circle: the first story features a small girl wearing a dress as
white as the stars, who discovers a casket of jewels in a forest of
blue trees. In the last story, a pink butterfly flutters from an
old woman's garden to a hut in the woods, where a girl in a white
dress sleeps. In between are a host of other wonderful characters,
including a red bird whose song inspires dreams, a boy with a
golden flower, an astrologer who paints stars from his purple
tower, fish that transport raindrop-jewels to an underwater sea
cave, and a mother and baby possum who discover a mysterious green
sanctuary. Parents and children alike will delight in the vivid
imagery in these enchanting tales, which lead the imagination from
the clear outlines of the waking world into the elusive realm of
dreams.
The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new
perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and
phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry
can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of
dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger and
Merleau-Ponty, Luke Fischer makes a new contribution to the
tradition of phenomenological poetics and expands the debate among
Germanists concerning the phenomenological status of Rilke's
poetry, which has been severely limited to comparisons of Rilke and
Husserl. Fischer explicates an implicit phenomenology of perception
in Rilke's writings from his middle period (1902-1910). He argues
that Rilke cultivated an artistic perception that, in a
philosophically significant manner, overcomes the opposition
between the sensuous and the intelligible while simultaneously
transcending the boundaries of philosophy. Fischer offers novel
interpretations of central poems from Rilke's Neue Gedichte (1907)
and Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil (1908) and frames them as the
ultimate articulation of Rilke's non-dualistic vision. He thus
demonstrates the continuity between Rilke and phenomenology while
arguing that poetry, in this case, provides the most adequate
response to a philosophical problem.
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