From Enthusiasm to Irony: Kierkegaard's Reception of Norse Mythology and Literature
Although the reader of Either/Or is intended to be, at the very least, somewhat ambivalent towards the Kierkegaardian pseudonym A, I argue that this character's enthusiasm for all things Old Norse is shared by the Kierkegaard of this period. Kierkegaard's interest in his region's roma...
| Subtitles: | Section 2: Source–work Studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2018]
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Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
Year: 2018, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 223-246 |
| RelBib Classification: | BD Ancient European religions CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia |
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| Summary: | Although the reader of Either/Or is intended to be, at the very least, somewhat ambivalent towards the Kierkegaardian pseudonym A, I argue that this character's enthusiasm for all things Old Norse is shared by the Kierkegaard of this period. Kierkegaard's interest in his region's romantic past, however, would be short-lived. As his authorship progressed from the aesthetic to the religious, he found himself in conflict with another titan of the Danish Golden Age, Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig. Since Grundtvig's work dealt extensively with Norse mythology, Kierkegaard's interest in the Norse cooled as his polemics against Grundtvig caught fire. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies / Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2018-0011 |