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Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art The Germanophone World
By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2013
288 Pages
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Routledge
282 Pages
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Routledge
282 Pages
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Routledge
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While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists worldwide who have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and his rich images, parables, and allegories. The goal of the present volume is to document this... Read more
Contents: Preface; Alfred Andersch: reading Søren Kierkegaard as flight to freedom, Alina Vaisfeld; Thomas Bernhard: a grotesque sickness unto death, Stefan Egenberger; Hermann Broch: ‘Nennen’s mir an Bessern’, Steen Tullberg; Friedrich Dürrenmatt: a Swiss author reading and using Kierkegaard, Pierre Bühler; Theodor Fontane: a probable pioneer in German Kierkegaard reception, Julie K. Allen; Max Frisch: literary transformations of identity, Sophie Wennerscheid; Theodor Haecker: the mobilization of a total author, Markus Kleinert; Franz Kafka: reading Kierkegaard, Nicolae Irina; Rudolf Kassner: a physiognomical appropriation, Steen Tullberg; Karl Kraus: ‘the miracle of unison' - criticism of the press and experiences of isolation, Joachim Grage; Thomas Mann: demons and daemons, Elisabete M. de Sousa and Ingrid Basso; Robert Musil: Kierkegaardian themes in The Man Without Qualities, David D. Possen; Rainer Maria Rilke: unsatisfied love and the poetry of living, Leonardo F. Lisi; Martin Walser: the (un-)certainty of reading, Sophie Wennerscheid; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart
