Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs

Gulliver to Zerlina

Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781472448842
• eBook ISBN: 9781351874847
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature

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.

Index of Persons

Abildgaard, Nicolai (1743–1809), Danish painter, 112.

Abraham, 59, 119, 209.

Adler, Adolph Peter (1812–69), Danish philosopher and theologian, 8.

Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903–69), German philosopher, 151, 264–5.

Aeschylus, 156, 188, 190, 194, 196.

Andersen, Hans Christian (1805–75), Danish poet, novelist and writer of fairy tales, 39.

Anderson, George K., 235–7.

Antigone, 219.

Argetsinger, Gerald, 44.

Aristophanes, 183, 189.

Aristotle, 62.

Arnim, Achim von (1781–1831), German author, 238, 244–5.

Arnold, Martin, 67.

Auber, Daniel François Esprit (1782–1871), French composer, 115.

Augustine of Hippo (354–430), church father, 191.

Aurbacher, Ludwig (1784–1847), German author, 238, 241.

Backhouse, Stephen, 68.

Baggesen, Jens (1764–1826), Danish poet, 49.

Bang, Oluf Lundt (1788–1877), Danish physician, 136.

Barabbas, 241.

Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (1821–67), French poet, 205.

Baur, Ferdinand Christian (1792–1860), German Protestant theologian, 227.

Becker, Karl Friedrich (1777–1809), German historian, 250–1.

Beckmann, Friedrich (1803–66), German actor, 144.

Bergerac, Cyrano de (1619–55), French poet and officer, 49.

Bidermann, Jacob (1578–1639), Austrian Jesuit priest, 43.

Blamires, David, 218.

Bloom, Harold (b. 1930), American literary critic, 141, 146.

Booth, Wayne C. (1921–2005), American literary critic, 5.

Bournonville, August (1805–79), Danish ballet master and choreographer, 123–4.

Boyle, John (1707–62), 5^th Earl of Orrery, English writer, friend of Jonathan Swift, 4.

Börne, Ludwig (1786–1837), German author, 18, 19, 27–30.

Brandes, Georg (1842–1927), Danish author and literary critic, 44.

Brandt, Susanna Margaretha (1746–72), 96.

Branscombe, Peter, 170.

Brooks, Harold, 200.

Bürger, Gottfried August (1747–94), German poet, 96, 139–42, 145, 149.

Caesar, Gaius Julius (100 BC–44 BC), Roman military and political leader, 53.

Caligula, i.e., Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Gulliver: Kierkegaard’s Reading of Swift and Gulliver’s Travels
• Hamlet: The Impossibility of Tragedy/The Tragedy of Impossibility
• Holger the Dane: Kierkegaard’s 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 Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Aesthetic
• Lucinde: “To live poetically is to live infinitely,” or Kierkegaard’s Concept of Irony as Portrayed in his Analysis of Friedrich Schlegel’s 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: Kierkegaard’s Use of a Greek Motif
• Münchhausen: 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 Kierkegaard’s 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 Kierkegaard’s Mirror
• The Wandering Jew: Kierkegaard and the Figuration of Death in Life
• Xerxes: Kierkegaard’s King of Jest
• Zerlina: A Study on How to Overcome Anxiety
• Index of Persons
• Index of Subjects