Table of contents

Light and darkness

The primeval dialectic of life

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

7-9

Elemental forms, creativity and the transformative power of literature in A.-T. Tymieniecka's tractatus brevis

Thomas Ryba

3-26

The light, the word, the sea, and the inner moral self

Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska

27-42

"No matter how no matter where"

The unlit in Samuel Beckett's Not I and stirrings still

Lois Oppenheim

43-53

The light at the end of the tunnel is coming right at me, or, the dialectic of elemental light and elemental dark

Sidney Feshbach

55-84

Monet's revealing light: evolution and devolution

Eldon Van Liere

85-99

Tagore on the dialectics of light and darkness

Sitansu Ray

101-107

The sublime as a source of light in the works of Nicolas Boileau

Theodore Litman

111-119

Light in Wordsworth illustrated

Peter Morgan

121-129

Light/darkness and the phenomenon of creation in Victor Hugo

Colette Michael

131-148

Illuminating light in August

Christopher Lalonde

149-161

Imagining epistemology: Plato and romantic luminaries

Findlay

163-182

The symbolic meaning of light in Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild

Christoph Eykman

183-191

Virginia Woolf's poetic imagination

Patterns of light and darkness in to the lighthouse

Beverly Schlack Randles

193-205

The swan and erotic love

Light, color, and myth in Rubén Darío's poetics

Jorge García-Gómez

207-235

Metaphor and the experience of light

William Haney Ii

237-245

Jake Barnes' insomnia and fiesta nightmare in the sun also rises

Sherlyn Abdoo

249-267

Light-values as existential indices in Thomas Pynchon’s extravagant comic revery

David Brottman

269-295

A note on Heidegger's death analytic

The Tolstoyian correlative

Alan Pratt

297-304

Per aspera ad astra

Aspects of darkness and light in Western literary consciousness

Hans Rudnick

307-314

Illumination and darkness in the song of songs

George Scheper

315-336

Light and the aesthetics of holiness in the Jewish spiritual tradition

Freema Gottlieb

337-349

Reason and laughter

JeAnne d'Arc au bûcher and La danse des morts

Marlies Kronegger

351-361

Creative imagination and dream

Carmen Balzer

363-375

Index of names