Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The mimesis of emotions and the elegiac redemption of grief

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-10

Two types of elegies

Goethe's Rome elegies and Rilke's Duino elegies

Alexandru Giuculescu

3-8

Crossblood

Literature and the drama of survival

Lawrence Kimmel

9-22

Erlebnis of story

Donald Castro

23-31

Longing and the phenomenon of loneliness

John Mcgraw

33-60

Tragedy, finitude, and the value-expressive dimension

Ralph Ellis

61-69

Causes of unhappiness in Dickens' Little Dorrit and Fowles' The French Lieutenant's woman

Raymond J. Wilson

71-84

The Christian Sappho

Mourning Albertine in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's "Le mal du pays"

Bruce Watson

87-93

Concerned with oneself and God alone

On Kierkegaard's concept of remorse as the basis for his literary theory

Alberto Carrillo Canán

95-115

The subtractive and nihilistic modes of silence

Heidegger and Beckett, Wittgenstein and Giacometti

Steven Bindeman

117-131

Words of wonder, wit, and well?… well-being!

Tony Raczka

133-140

Between elation and sorrow

Aesthetic experience in the Western European novel

Christoph Eykman

141-153

Weltschmerz or the pain of living

Hans Rudnick

155-166

Vyacheslav Ivanov's aesthetic

The sonnet "love"

Irina Vayl

167-174

The death of a significant other

Gary Backhaus

175-197

The loss of gregor samsa, and Kafka's use of language

Bernadette Prochaska

199-206

Ecstasies: representations of ecstatic sorrow and ecstatic joy

George Scheper

209-222

The problem of reconciliation in remorse

Coleridge's dramatic theory and practice

Jadwiga Smith

223-230

Elegy rebuffed by pastoral eclogue in Wallace Stevens' "sunday morning"

Sidney Feshbach

231-245

Le Clézio: de l'héritage à l'origine

Etude du procès-verbal à Pawana, le récit d'un secret

Isabelle Gillet

247-255

La literatura y la persona excepcional

Miguel Jarquín Marín

257-276

Index of names