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.