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 Søren 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.

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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 Søren 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.

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The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism

The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism

by Joseph Westfall
The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism

The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism

by Joseph Westfall

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This study examines the problematic practice of authorship in the works of Danish philosopher and theologian Søren 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110200973
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 01/01/2007
Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 466 KB

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Joseph Westfall , University of Houston,Texas, USA.

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