The Kierkegaardian author : authorship and performance in Kierkegaard's literary and dramatic criticism /

This study examines the problematic practice of authorship in the works of Danish philosopher and theologian S ren Kierkegaard, whose infamous and invasive literary and stylistic idiosyncrasies must enter into any interpretation philosophical, theological, or literary. The work offers a radically an...

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Main Authors: Westfall, Joseph
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin ;Boston :
Publication Dates: [2009]
©2007
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Kierkegaard studies. monograph series ; 15
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110200973
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Summary: This study examines the problematic practice of authorship in the works of Danish philosopher and theologian S ren Kierkegaard, whose infamous and invasive literary and stylistic idiosyncrasies must enter into any interpretation philosophical, theological, or literary. The work offers a radically anti-biographical reading of Kierkegaard s literary and dramatic criticism, suggesting ultimately that the closest one ever comes to the real author of a written work is in an understanding of how all authors are themselves works of creative fiction.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (300pages).
ISBN: 9783110200973
Index Number: B4378
CLC: B534
Contents: Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction --
Chapter One --
Chapter Two --
Chapter Three --
Chapter Four --
Chapter Five --
Backmatter