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

This collection explores how the lyrical virtualities of life-experience and the elegiac style in literature share a common core. The "elegiac sequence" in the play of emotions, feelings and sentiments brings together life and literary creativity in its transformatory power.

The Theme. Acknowledgements. Section One: Aesthetic Transmutation of Vital Emotions in Literary Creativity. Two Types of Elegies: Goethe''s Rome Elegies and Rilke''s Duino Elegies; A. Giuculescu. Crossblood: Literature and the Drama of Survival; L. Kimmel. Erlebnis of Story; D.F. Castro. Longing and the Phenomenon of Loneliness; J.G. McGraw. Tragedy, Finitude, and the Value-Expressive Dimension; R.D. Ellis. Causes of Unhappiness in Dickens'' Little Dorrit and Fowles'' The French Lieutenant''s Woman; R.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''; B.S. Watson. Concerned with Oneself and God Alone on Kirkegaard''s Concept of Remorse as the Basis for his Literary Theory; A.C. Canàn. The Subtractive and Nihilistic Modes of Silence: Heidegger and Beckett, Wittgenstein and Giacometti; S. Bindeman. Words of Wonder, Wit, and Well?... Well-Being! T. Raczka. Between Elation and Sorrow: Aesthetic Experience in the Western European Novel; C. Eykman. Weltschmerz or the Pain of Living; H.H. Rudnick. Vyacheslav Ivanov''s Aesthetic: The Sonnet `Love''; I. Vayl. The Death of a Significant Other; G. Backhaus. The Loss of Gregor Samsa and Kafka''s Use of Language; B. Prochaska. Section Three: From Abysmal Sorrow to Ecstatic Joy: The Elegiac Transmutation of Feeling. Ecstasies: Emerson''s Experience of Elegy; M. Cavitch. Representations of Ecstatic Sorrow and Ecstatic Joy; G.L. Scheper. The Problem of Reconciliation in Remorse: Coleridge''s Dramatic Theory and Practice; J.S. Smith. Elegy Rebuffed by Pastoral Eclogue in Wallace Stevens'' `Sunday Morning'';S. Feshbach. Le Clézio: de l''héritage à l''origine! Étude du procès-verbal à Pawana, le récit d''un secret; I. Gillet. La Literatura y la Persona Excepcional; M.J. Marin.