1st Edition
Volume 12, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art The Anglophone World
By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2013
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 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: W.H. Auden: art and Christianity in an age of anxiety, Leonardo F. Lisi; James Baldwin: ‘poetic experimentators’ in a chaotic world, Nigel Hatton; Samuel Barber: Kierkegaard, from a musical point of view, Diego Giordano; Harold Bloom: critics, bards and prophets, Elisabete M. de Sousa; Don DeLillo: Kierkegaard and the grave in the air, Daniel Greenspan; Louise Erdich: existence with an ‘edge of irony’, Nigel Hatton; James Joyce: negation, Kierkeyaard, wake and repetition, Bartholomew Ryan; David Lodge: a therapy for the self, Natalja Vorobyova Jørgensen; Flannery O’Connor: reading Kierkegaard in the light of Thomas Aquinas, Christopher B. Barnett; Walker Percy: literary extrapolations from Kierkegaard, Joseph Ballan; George Steiner: playing Kierkegaard’s theological-philosophic-psychological sports, Paul Martens; William Styron: Styron and the assault of Kierkegaardian dread, Nigel Hatton; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
