Section One Aesthetic Transmutation of Vital Emotions in Literary Creativity -- Two Types of Elegies: Goetheโs Rome Elegies and Rilkeโs 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 Dickensโ Little Dorrit and Fowlesโ The French Lieutenantโs Woman -- Section Two Mourning, Remorse, Silence, Mirth, in their Aesthetic Virtualities -- The Christian Sappho: Mourning Albertine in Marceline Desbordes-Valmoreโs โLe Mal du Paysโ -- Concerned with Oneself and God Alone: On Kierkegaardโs 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? โฆ Well-Being! -- Between Elation and Sorrow: Aesthetic Experience in the Western European Novel -- Weltschmerz or the Pain of Living -- Vyacheslav Ivanovโs Aesthetic: The Sonnet โLoveโ -- The Death of a Significant Other -- The Loss of Gregor Samsa, and Kafkaโs 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: Coleridgeโs Dramatic Theory and Practice -- Elegy Rebuffed by Pastoral Eclogue in Wallace Stevensโ โSunday Morningโ -- Le Clรฉzio: de lโhรฉritage ร  lโ origine. รtude du Procรจs-verbal ร  Pawana, le rรฉcit dโun secret -- La Literatura y la Persona Excepcional -- Index of Names

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