Are emotions, feelings, sentiments not the stuff of literature? There it is where they project their inner logic of aesthetic transmutation; there, beyond the instrument of language that they command. This collection explores how the lyrical virtualities of life-experience and the elegiac style in literature share a common core, lifting the human significance of life from abysmal vitality to esoteric heights, from abysmal grief to a serene reconciliation with destiny. The "elegiac sequence" in the play of emotions, feelings and sentiments brings together life and literary creativity in its transformatory power.

Book Information
ISBN 9780792360070
Author Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers