Section One Aesthetic Transmutation of Vital Emotions in Literary Creativity -- Two Types of Elegies: Goetheโ{128}{153}s Rome Elegies and Rilkeโ{128}{153}s 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{128}{153} Little Dorrit and Fowlesโ{128}{153} The French Lieutenantโ{128}{153}s Woman -- Section Two Mourning, Remorse, Silence, Mirth, in their Aesthetic Virtualities -- The Christian Sappho: Mourning Albertine in Marceline Desbordes-Valmoreโ{128}{153}s โ{128}{156}Le Mal du Paysโ{128}{157} -- Concerned with Oneself and God Alone: On Kierkegaardโ{128}{153}s 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? โ{128}ฆ Well-Being! -- Between Elation and Sorrow: Aesthetic Experience in the Western European Novel -- Weltschmerz or the Pain of Living -- Vyacheslav Ivanovโ{128}{153}s Aesthetic: The Sonnet โ{128}{156}Loveโ{128}{157} -- The Death of a Significant Other -- The Loss of Gregor Samsa, and Kafkaโ{128}{153}s 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: Coleridgeโ{128}{153}s Dramatic Theory and Practice -- Elegy Rebuffed by Pastoral Eclogue in Wallace Stevensโ{128}{153} โ{128}{156}Sunday Morningโ{128}{157} -- Le Clรฉzio: de lโ{128}{153}hรฉritage ร  lโ{128}{153} origine. ร{137}tude du Procรจs-verbal ร  Pawana, le rรฉcit dโ{128}{153}un secret -- La Literatura y la Persona Excepcional -- Index of Names