Mystery in its Passions: Literary Explorations

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Acknowledgments. The Theme:- Literature's Path through the Unknown A-T. Tymieniecka. Section I:- Orphic Listening: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and the Mystery of Transcendence N. Mardas. Phenomenology of the Mysterious: Rilke's 'Sonnette an Orpheus' J.A. Gosetti-Ferencei. Literature, Mystery, and Truth L. Kimmel. The Master of Riddles and the Mystery of Truth M. Statkiewicz. Meditation and Mediation, Secrets and Seizures: Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' as Fiction/Testimony P. Beidler. Section II:- The Mystery of Pain: Walt Whitman's 'Lilacs' and Edmund Husserl's 'Meaning' B. Prochaska. Mystery in a Jellabah: Cultural Worlds in Borges's 'Historia Universal de la Infamia' T. Weiss. In the Name of God: Sufi'ism, a Transcendental Pantheism and the Mystery of Mysticism in Persian Poetry M.J. Sahlani. Reading J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace': In Search of the Good C. Malloy. The Beauty of Thought: Heidegger, Gadamer and Marmardashvili M. Stafecka. Section III:- Solving the Mystery: A Schutzian Analysis of Sherlock Holmes G. Backhaus. Fictionalization of Incidents in the Autobiographies of Ezekiel Mphahlele, Wole Soyinka, Camara Laye and Peter Abrahams T.E. Afejuku. Mystery, the Genetic System, and Children's Books M.J. Duffy. A Reflection on the Autobiographical Memory and on the Current Meaning of the Individual Life V.G. Rivas. Paul Ricoeur's 'The Symbolism of Evil' and the Problem of Evil in Marston's 'Antonio' Plays J. Smith. The Relationship between Translatability and Competence R. Giovagnoli. Section IV:- Wallace Steven's Poetry of 'The Strange Unlike' H. Pearce. Of Time and the River: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's River Hymns D.E. Skocz.Kantor's Mystery of Death M. Sulkowska. Pindar and the Ethic of Encounter L.U. Weinmann. Art and Mystery in Mikhail Bulgakov's Novel 'The Master and Margarita' and Aleksei Losev's Study 'The Dialectics of Myth' V.L. Marchenkov. Does What Has Been Survive after All? The Touch of Yesterday M. Itkonen. Index of Names.