The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness: The Passions of the Soul in the Onto-poiesis of Life

Elemental Forms, Creativity and the Trans-formative Power of Literature in A-T. Tymieniecka's Tractatus Brevis.- The Light, the Word, the Sea, and the Inner Moral Self.- "No Matter How No Matter Where": The Unlit in Samuel Beckett's Not I and Stirrings Still.- The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is Coming Right at Me, or, the Dialectic of Elemental Light and Elemental Dark.- Monet's Revealing Light: Evolution and Devolution.- Tagore on the Dialectics of Light and Darkness.- The Sublime as a Source of Light in the Works of Nicolas Boileau.- Light in Wordsworth Illustrated.- Light/Darkness and the Phenomenon of Creation in Victor Hugo.- Illuminating Light inAugust.- Imagining Epistemology: Plato and Romantic Luminaries.- The Symbolic Meaning of Light in Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild.- Virginia Woolf's Poetic Imagination: Patterns of Light and Darkness in To the Lighthouse.- The Swan and Erotic Love: Light, Color, and Myth in Rubén Dariío's Poetics.- Metaphor and the Experience of Light.- Jake Barnes' Insomnia and Fiesta Nightmare in The Sun Also Rises.- Light-Values as Existential Indices in Thomas Pynchon's Extravagant Comic Revery.- A Note on Heidegger's Death Analytic: The Tolstoyian Correlative.- Per aspera ad astra: Aspects of Darkness and Light in Western Literary Consciousness.- Illumination and Darkness in the Song of Songs.- Light and the Aesthetics of Holiness in the Jewish Spiritual Tradition.- Reason and Laughter: Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher and La Danse des Morts.- Creative Imagination and Dream.- Index of Names.