Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion: From Sorrow to Elation; Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature,9780792360070

Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion: From Sorrow to Elation; Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780792360070
ISBN10: 0792360079
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Kluwer Academic Pub
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Summary

Are emotions, feelings, sentiments not the stuff of literature? That is where they project their 'inner logic' of aesthetic transmutation; there, beyond the instrument of language that they command. This collection explores how the lyrical virtualities of life-experience and the elegiac style in literature share a common core, lifting the human significance of life from abysmal vitality to esoteric heights, from abysmal grief to a serene reconciliation with destiny. The 'elegiac sequence' in the play of emotions, feelings, sentiments brings together life and literary creativity in its transformatory power. With papers by A. Giuculescu, John McGraw, R. Ellis, A. Carillo Canán, B. Watson, S. Bindeman, R.J. Wilson, L. Kimmel, B. Prochaska, T. Raczka, Chr. Eykman, J.S. Smith, G. Scheper, S. Feshbach, I. Vayl, H. Rudnick and others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
The Theme / The Mimesis of Emotions and the Elegiac Redemption of Grief viii
SECTION ONE AESTHETIC TRANSMUTATION OF VITAL EMOTIONS IN LITERARY CREATIVITY
Two Types of Elegies: Goethe's Rome Elegies and Rilke's Duino Elegies
3(6)
Alexandru Giuculescu
Crossblood: Literature and the Drama of Survival
9(14)
Lawrence Kimmel
Erlebnis of Story
23(10)
Donald F. Castro
Longing and the Phenomenon of Loneliness
33(28)
John G. McGraw
Tragedy, Finitude, and the Value-Expressive Dimension
61(10)
Ralph D. Ellis
Causes of Unhappiness in Dickens' Little Dorrit and Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman
71(16)
Raymond J. Wilson III
SECTION TWO MOURNING, REMORSE, SILENCE, MIRTH, IN THEIR AESTHETIC VIRTUALITIES
The Christian Sappho: Mourning Albertine in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's ``Le Mal du Pays''
87(8)
Bruce S. Watson
Concerned with Onself and God Alone: On Kierkegaard's Concept of Remorse as the Basis for His Literary Theory
95(22)
Alberto Carrillo Canan
The Subtractive and Nihilistic Modes of Silence: Heidegger and Beckett, Wittgenstein and Giacometti
117(16)
Steven Bindeman
Words of Wonder, Wit, and Well? ... Well-Being!
133(8)
Tony Raczka
Between Elation and Sorrow: Aesthetic Experience in the Western European Novel
141(14)
Christoph Eykman
Weltschmerz or the Pain of Living
155(12)
Hans H. Rudnick
Vyacheslav Ivanov's Aesthetic: The Sonnet ``Love''
167(8)
Irina Vayl
The Death of a Significant Other
175(24)
Gary Backhaus
The Loss of Gregor Samsa, and Kafka's Use of Language
199(10)
Bernadette Prochaska
SECTION THREE FROM ABYSMAL SORROW TO ECSTATIC JOY: THE ELEGIAC TRANSMUTATION OF FEELING
Ecstasies: Representations of Ecstatic Sorrow and Ecstatic Joy
209(14)
George L. Scheper
The Problem of Reconciliation in Remorse: Coleridge's Dramatic Theory and Practice
223(8)
Jadwiga S. Smith
Elegy Rebuffed by Pastoral Eclogue in Wallace Stevens' ``Sunday Morning''
231(16)
Sidney Feshbach
Le Clezio: de I'heritage a I' origine. Etude du Proces-verbal a Pawana, le recit d'un secret
247(10)
I. Gillet
La Literatura y la Persona Excepcional
257(20)
Miguel Jarquin Marin
Index of Names 277

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