Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs
Gulliver to Zerlina
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Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs
Gulliver to Zerlina
About This Book
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 II covering figures and motifs from Gulliver to Zerlina.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Gulliver: Kierkegaardâs Reading of Swift and Gulliverâs Travels
- Hamlet: The Impossibility of Tragedy/The Tragedy of Impossibility
- Holger the Dane: Kierkegaardâs Mention of One Heroic Legend
- Jeppe of the Hill: The Hedonistic Christian
- Niels Klim: Project Makers in a World Upside Down
- King Lear: Silence and the Leafage of Language
- Loki: Romanticism and Kierkegaardâs Critique of the Aesthetic
- Lucinde: âTo live poetically is to live infinitely,â or Kierkegaardâs Concept of Irony as Portrayed in his Analysis of Friedrich Schlegelâs Work
- Lady Macbeth: The Viscera of Conscience
- Margarete: The Feminine Face of Faust
- The Master-Thief: A One-Man Army against the Established Order
- Mephistopheles: Demonic Seducer, Musician, Philosopher, and Humorist
- Minerva: Kierkegaardâs Use of a Greek Motif
- MĂŒnchhausen: Charlatan or Sublime Artist
- Nemesis: From the Ancient Goddess to a Modern Concept
- Nero: Insatiable Sensualist
- Papageno: An Aesthetic Awakening of the Ethics of Desire
- Per Degn: Towards Kierkegaardâs Genealogy of the Morals of the Servitors of the State Church
- Prometheus: Thief, Creator, and Icon of Pain
- Richard III: The Prototype of the Demonic
- Robert le Diable: A Modern Tragic Figure
- Typhon: The Monster in Kierkegaardâs Mirror
- The Wandering Jew: Kierkegaard and the Figuration of Death in Life
- Xerxes: Kierkegaardâs King of Jest
- Zerlina: A Study on How to Overcome Anxiety
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects