Beyond Literary Theory Literature as a Search

Beyond Literary Theory is not representative of any particular school of criticism. Its purpose is to demonstrate the scope and limits of critical theories based on logic, scientism, and psychoanalysis. Eduard H. Strauch allows readers to explore beyond literary theory to discover dimensions of human experience that define timeless literature.

Acknowledgments

ix

Permissions

xi

Preface

xv

General Introduction

xvii

Part One: The Historical Search For A Literary Aesthetic

The Traditional Perspective: Literature as Beauty, Truth, Meaning and the Sublime

3

(42)

Part Two: The Scope And Limits Of Rational Literary Theory

The Obsolescent Critical Language of Today

45

(10)

Genre: Kind, Form or Modulation?

55

(10)

Image, Metaphor and Symbol

65

(10)

The Neo-Aristotelian Analysis and the Limits of Logic

75

(14)

European Criticism of Anglo-American Formalism

89

(12)

Part Three: Literary Theory As Human Science

The Search for a Science of Literary Criticism

101

(16)

Part Four: The Psychological Interpretation Of Literature

Scope and Limits of the Freudian Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Literature

117

(16)

C.G. Jung's Analytical Psychology and its Implications for Interpreting Literature

133

(24)

Paul Diel's Psychology of Motivation: Subconscious Fate Versus Supraconcsious Destiny

157

(26)

Part Five: The Mystical Dimension In Literature

Introduction to Part Five

177

(6)

Dante's Vita Nuova as Riddle: A Medieval Meditation on the Numinous

183

(10)

Four Dimensions of Signification in The Old Man and the Sea

193

(34)

Introduction to the Mystery of the Mandala

194

(8)

Santiago as Pilgrim

202

(6)

A Numerological Interpretation

208

(10)

The Novel as Testament

218

(9)

The Mystical Dimension of J.P. Sartre's Nausea

227

(38)

Conclusion to Part Five

253

(4)

General Conclusion

257

(8)

Appendix A Mystical Poets, Philosophers and Authors

265

(4)

Notes

269

(19)

Bibliography

288

(7)

Chapter-by-Chapter Summary Index

295

(32)

Alpha Index

327

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