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Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion

From Sorrow to Elation: Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature

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Editors:
  1. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

    1. The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 62)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Aesthetic Transmutation of Vital Emotions in Literary Creativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Two Types of Elegies: Goethe’s Rome Elegies and Rilke’s Duino Elegies

      • Alexandru Giuculescu
      Pages 3-8

    3. Crossblood: Literature and the Drama of Survival

      • Lawrence Kimmel
      Pages 9-22

    4. Erlebnis of Story

      • Donald F. Castro
      Pages 23-31

    5. Longing and the Phenomenon of Loneliness

      • John G. McGraw
      Pages 33-60

    6. Tragedy, Finitude, and the Value-Expressive Dimension

      • Ralph D. Ellis
      Pages 61-69

    7. Causes of Unhappiness in Dickens’ Little Dorrit and Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

      • Raymond J. Wilson III
      Pages 71-84

  3. Mourning, Remorse, Silence, Mirth, in their Aesthetic Virtualities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. The Christian Sappho: Mourning Albertine in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s “Le Mal Du Pays”

      • Bruce S. Watson
      Pages 87-93

    3. Concerned with Oneself and God Alone: On Kierkegaard’s Concept of Remorse as the Basis for his Literary Theory

      • Alberto Carillo Canán
      Pages 95-115

    4. The Subtractive and Nihilistic Modes of Silence: Heidegger and Beckett, Wittgenstein and Giacometti

      • Steven Bindeman
      Pages 117-131

    5. Words of Wonder, Wit, and Well? … Well-Being!

      • Tony Raczka
      Pages 133-140

    6. Between Elation and Sorrow: Aesthetic Experience in the Western European Novel

      • Christoph Eykman
      Pages 141-153

    7. Weltschmerz or The Pain of Living

      • Hans H. Rudnick
      Pages 155-166

    8. Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Aesthetic: The Sonnet “Love”

      • Irina Vayl
      Pages 167-174

    9. The Death of a Significant Other

      • Gary Backhaus
      Pages 175-197

    10. The Loss of Gregor Samsa, and Kafka’s Use of Language

      • Bernadette Prochaska
      Pages 199-206

  4. From Abysmal Sorrow to Ecstatic Joy: The Elegiac Transmutation of Feeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Ecstasies: Representations of Ecstatic Sorrow and Ecstatic Joy

      • George L. Scheper
      Pages 209-222
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion

  • Book Subtitle: From Sorrow to Elation: Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4265-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6007-0Published: 31 May 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5848-3Published: 14 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4265-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 285

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Mind

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