Virtues and Passions in Literature

THEMATIC STUDY: LITERATURE AND THE PASSION OF VIRTUE; L. Kimmel. Part I. HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIRTUES AS REFLECTED IN CHINESE LITERATURE; T-I Dow. REVISITING THE TRADITIONAL VIRTUES OF THE HERO: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF WILFRED OWEN’S DISABLED SOLDIER; B. Micallef. BEAUTY, TASTE AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN HUME’S AESTHETIC THOUGH; V.G. Rivas. Part II. VIRTUES OF THE HEART: FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND THE ETHIC OF LOVE; E. Cherkasova. THE WILLING SUBJECT AND THE NON-WILLING IN THE TAO TE CHING AND NIETZSCHE’S HYPERBOREAN: TAOIST AND DECONSTRUCTIVE CHALLENGES TO THE IDEA OF VIRTUE; B. Ross. SPIRITUAL VIRTUE IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S GILEAD; R.M. Painter. Part III. INHERENT AND INTENTIONAL INQUIRIES ON VIRTUES; A. Ashvo-Munoz. STRIVING AND ACCEPTING LIMITS AS COMPETING META-VIRTUES: GOETHE’S FAUST AND IBSEN’S THE WILD DUCK; R.J. Wilson III. HAPPINESS, DIVISION, AND ILLUSIONS OF THE SELF IN PLATO’S SYMPOSIUM; P. Weigel. THE VIRTUE OF RESPONSIBILITY: FEMININITY, TEMPORALITY, AND SPACE IN MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM’S THE HOURS; A. Ljung-Baruth. Part IV. ENLIGHTENMENT, HUMANIZATION AND BEAUTY IN THE LIGHT OF SCHILLER’S LETTERS ON THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF MAN; V.G. Rivas. BEYOND ADAPTATION: STOICISM, TRANSCENDENCE, AND MOVIEGOING IN WALKER PERCY AND STANLEY CAVELL; L.F. Rhu. BETWEEN THE IRONIC AND THE IRENIC: HAPPINESS, CONTINGENCY AND THE POETICS OF RECURRENCE; J. Baldacchino. PHENOMENOLOGICAL TEMPORALITY AND PROUSTIAN NOSTALGIA; R. Kaushik. Part V. ART AND AWARENESS; J. Jandovitz. THE IMAGE OF HISTORY IN THOUGHT; E. Escher. NARRATIVE, CONVENTION, AND REALITY 2; M. Holt. POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN THE SAINT ANTOINE GATE, 1585-1672; W. Roberts. MUSIC THEORYAND PHENOMENOLOGY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, A CASE STUDY: FIVE NOTES IN JOEL DURAND’S UN FEU DISTINCT; M. Beken