The Poetics of Transcendence

Elisa Heinämäki is a postdoctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. P.M. Mehtonen is an independent researcher and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki, Finland. Antti Salminen is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, Finland, specializing in the philosophy of literature and avant-garde poetics.

Acknowledgements
Elisa Heinämäki, P.M. Mehtonen, and Antti Salminen: Literary Beyonds: An Introduction

Part I: Poetics of Mysticism
Daniel Acke: Non‐Religious Mysticism: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Antti Salminen: Writing Through the Transcendence: On Paul Celan’s Mysticism
Kent L. Brintnall: Transcribing Desire: Mystical Theology in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts

Part II: Transcendence and Language
Shira Wolosky: Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas, Ricoeur, Frost
William Franke: Language and Transcendence in Dante’s Paradiso

Part III: Tropes of Transcendences
Elisa Heinämäki: The Original Analogy: Mediating Transcendence in The Man Without Qualities
Jarkko Toikkanen: Transcendental Puppets: Kant and Kleist
Hanna Mäkelä: Horizontal Rivalry, Vertical Transcendence: Identity and Idolatry in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

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