The Tragic Vision: Variations on a Theme in Literary Interpretation

• The Tragic Vision: Variations on a Theme in Literary Interpretation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.
  Contents:
  Preface:xix-xxiv.
  

  1. Tragedy and the Tragic Vision:1-21.
     
  2. Rebellion and the "State of Dialogue":22-49.
     
     1. The Huguenot Anti-Ethic of André Gide:22-37.
        
     2. The State of Monologue in D.H. Lawrence:37-49.
        
  3. Satanism, Sainthood, and the Revolution:50-85.
     
     1. André Malraux: Rebellion and the Realization of Self: 50-72.
        
     2. Ignazio Silone: The Failure of the Secular Christ: 72-85.
        
  4. Disease and Health: the Tragic and the Human Realms of Thomas Mann: 86-113.
     
     1. The End of Faustus: Death and Transfiguration: 87-102.
        
     2. The Magic Mountain: The Failure of "Spirituel" Mediation: 102-113.
        
  5. The World of Law as Pasteboard Mask: 114-153.
     
     1. Franz Kafka: Nonetity and the Tragic: 114-144.
        
     2. Albert Camus: Beyond Nonentity and the Rejection of the Tragic: 144-153.
        
  6. Joseph Conrad: Action, Inaction, and Extremity: 154-194.
     
     1. The Varieties of Extremity: 154-179: (Heart of Darkness: 154-165; Lord Jim: 165-179).
        
     2. Victory: Pseudo Tragedy and the Failure of Vision: 179-194.
        
  7. The Perils of "Enthusiast" Virtue: 195-227.
     
     1. Melville's "Enthusiast": The Perversion of Innocence: 195-209.
        
     2. Dostoevsky's Idiot: The Curse of Saintliness: 209-227.
        
  8. Recent Criticism, "Thematics", and the Existentialist Dilemma: 228-268.
     
     1. Recent Criticism: Formalism and Beyond: 229-241.
        
     2. "Thematics: A Manichean Consequence: 241-257.
        
     3. A Pseudo-Christian Consequence and the Retreat from Extremity: 257-268.