1st Edition
Volume 12, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art Sweden and Norway
By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2013
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
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. This use can be traced in the work of major cultural figures not just in Denmark and Scandinavia but also in the wider world. They have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and... Read more
Contents: Part I Sweden: Lars Ahlin: Kierkegaard’s influence - an ambiguous matter, Hans Erik Johannesson; Victoria Benedictsson: a female perspective on ethics, Camilla Brudin Borg; Lars Gyllensten: inventor of modern stages of life, Camilla Brudin Borg; Selma Lagerlöf: ‘more clever than wise’, Elise Iuul; August Strindberg: along with Kierkegaard in a dance of death, Ingrid Basso; Carl-Henning Wijkmark: paradoxical forms and an interpretation of Kierkegaard and Dacapo, Jan Holmgaard. Part II Norway: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Kierkegaard’s positive influence on Bjørnson in his youth and adulthood, Esben Lindemann; Henrik Ibsen: the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical, Eivind Tjønneland; Edvard Munch: the painter of The Scream and his relation to Kierkegaard, Hans Herlof Grelland; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart
