The Tragic Vision: Variations on a
Theme in
Literary Interpretation. New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1960.
Contents:
Preface:xix-xxiv.
- Tragedy and the Tragic Vision:1-21.
- Rebellion and the "State of Dialogue":22-49.
- The Huguenot Anti-Ethic of André Gide:22-37.
- The State of Monologue in D.H. Lawrence:37-49.
- Satanism, Sainthood, and the Revolution:50-85.
- André Malraux: Rebellion and the Realization of Self: 50-72.
- Ignazio Silone: The Failure of the Secular Christ: 72-85.
- Disease and Health: the Tragic and the Human Realms of Thomas
Mann: 86-113.
- The End of Faustus: Death and Transfiguration: 87-102.
- The Magic Mountain: The Failure of
"Spirituel" Mediation: 102-113.
- The World of Law as Pasteboard Mask: 114-153.
- Franz Kafka:
Nonetity and the Tragic: 114-144.
- Albert Camus: Beyond Nonentity and the Rejection of the Tragic: 144-153.
- Joseph Conrad: Action, Inaction, and Extremity: 154-194.
- The Varieties of Extremity: 154-179: (Heart of
Darkness:
154-165; Lord Jim: 165-179).
- Victory: Pseudo Tragedy and the Failure of Vision: 179-194.
- The Perils of "Enthusiast" Virtue: 195-227.
- Melville's "Enthusiast": The Perversion of Innocence: 195-209.
- Dostoevsky's Idiot: The Curse of Saintliness:
209-227.
- Recent Criticism, "Thematics", and the Existentialist Dilemma: 228-268.
- Recent Criticism: Formalism and Beyond: 229-241.
- "Thematics: A
Manichean Consequence: 241-257.
- A Pseudo-Christian Consequence and the Retreat from Extremity: 257-268.