Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion

From Sorrow to Elation: Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature

296 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Section One Aesthetic Transmutation of Vital Emotions in Literary Creativity.- Two Types of Elegies: Goethe's Rome Elegies and Rilke's Duino Elegies.- Crossblood: Literature and the Drama of Survival.- Erlebnis of Story.- Longing and the Phenomenon of Loneliness.- Tragedy, Finitude, and the Value-Expressive Dimension.- Causes of Unhappiness in Dickens' Little Dorrit and Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.- Section Two Mourning, Remorse, Silence, Mirth, in their Aesthetic Virtualities.- The Christian Sappho: Mourning Albertine in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's "Le Mal du Pays".- Concerned with Oneself and God Alone: On Kierkegaard's Concept of Remorse as the Basis for His Literary Theory.- The Subtractive and Nihilistic Modes of Silence: Heidegger and Beckett, Wittgenstein and Giacometti.- Words of Wonder, Wit, and Well? ... Well-Being!.- Between Elation and Sorrow: Aesthetic Experience in the Western European Novel.- Weltschmerz or the Pain of Living.- Vyacheslav Ivanov's Aesthetic: The Sonnet "Love".- The Death of a Significant Other.- The Loss of Gregor Samsa, and Kafka's Use of Language.- Session 3 From Abysmal Sorrow to Ecstatic Joy: The Elegiac Transmutation of Feeling.- Ecstasies: Representations of Ecstatic Sorrow and Ecstatic Joy.- The Problem of Reconciliation in Remorse: Coleridge's Dramatic Theory and Practice.- Elegy Rebuffed by Pastoral Eclogue in Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning".- Le Clézio: de l'héritage à l' origine. Étude du Procès-verbal à Pawana, le récit d'un secret.- La Literatura y la Persona Excepcional.- Index of Names.

• Reihe: Analecta Husserliana
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen Nach 1800 Phänomenologie und Existenzphilosophie
• ISBN: 9789401058483
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2012
• Größe: 223 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka