Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart

Volume 16, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs (eBook, ePUB)

Agamemnon to Guadalquivir

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Produktbeschreibung

While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension of his thought has served to make his writings far more popular than those of other philosophers and theologians, but at the same time it has made their interpretation more complex. Kierkegaard readers are generally aware of his interest in figures such as Faust or the Wandering Jew, but they rarely have a full appreciation of the vast extent of his use of characters from different literary periods and traditions. The present volume is dedicated to the treatment of the variety of literary figures and motifs used by Kierkegaard. The volume is arranged alphabetically by name, with Tome I covering figures and motifs from Agamemnon to Guadalquivir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351874878
• Artikelnr.: 49354589

Autorenporträt

Katalin Nun and Jon Stewart are both based in the Sÿren Kierkegaard Research Centre, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Agamemnon: from ancient tragic hero to modern ethical archetype
Laura Liva; Agnes and the merman: Abraham as monster
Nathaniel Kramer; Aladdin: the audacity of wildest wishes
Jennifer Veninga; Amor: god of love - Psyche's seducer
Frances Maughan-Brown; Antigone: the tragic art of either/or
Shoni Rancher; Ariadne: Kierkegaard's view on women
life and remorse
Filipa Afonso; Marie Beaumarchais: Kierkegaard's account of feminine sorrow
Susana Janic; Bluebeard: demoniac or tragic hero?
Ian W. Panth; Captain Scipio: the recollection of Phister's portrayal as the comic par excellence
Timothy Stock; Cerberus: deceiving a watchdog and relying on God
Filipa Afonso; Clavigo: a little tale about the sense of guilt
Antonella Fimiani; Coach horn: Kierkegaard's ambivalent valedictory to a disappearing instrument
Wolter Hartog; Desdemona: the ill-starred heroine of indirect communication
Ana Pinto Leite; Diotima: teacher of Socrates and Kierkegaard's advocate for the mythical
Harald Steffes; Don Juan (Don Giovanni): seduction and its absolute medium in music
Jacobo Zabalo; Don Quixote: Kierkegaard and the relation between knight-errant and truth-witness
Christopher B. Barnett; Donna Elvira: the colossal feminine character
from donna abbandonata to the embodiment of modern sorrow
Sara Ellen Eckerson; Elves
trolls
and nisses: the relevance of supernatural creatures to aestheticism
philosophical rationalism
and the Christian faith
Will Williams; Erasmus Montanus: the tragi-comic victim of the crowd
Julie K. Allen; Faust: the seduction of doubt
Leonardo F. Lisi; The Fenris wolf: unreal fetters and real forces in Søren Kierkegaard's authorship
Henrike Fürstenberg; Figaro: the character and the opera he represents
Sara Ellen Eckerson; Furies: the phenomenal representation of guilt
Laura Liva; Gadfly: Kierkegaard's relation to Socrates
Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal; Guadalquivir: Kierkegaard's subterranean fluvial pseudonymity
Eric Ziolkowski; Indexes.