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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa[Herausgeber]

Titel

Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion : From Sorrow to Elation: Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2000

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes index.
• 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.
• English