Volume 12, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art: Sweden and Norway

ISBN-13: 9781138276673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str.

Jon Stewart

Opis

Tome III investigates the works of Swedish and Norwegian writers and artists inspired by Kierkegaard. In Sweden the novelist Victoria Benedictsson made use of Kierkegaard during the period of the so-called Modern Breakthrough, as did the playwright August Strindberg. Later Swedish writers have continued to draw on his thought, such as Selma Lagerlof, Lars Ahlin, Lars Gyllensten, and Carl-Henning Wijkmark. The Norwegian reception of Kierkegaard also began remarkably early and was shaped by the leading names in Norwegian cultural life. Despite his coy responses to questions about his relation to Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen clearly seems to have been inspired by the Dane in works such as Brand. Norwegian writer and poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson, who was influenced by the Modern Breakthrough movement, was also deeply inspired by Kierkegaard. Finally, the celebrated Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) closely studied key Kierkegaardian concepts such as anxiety, and his influence is notable in his iconic paintings such as The Scream.

Spis treści

Contents: Part I Sweden: Lars Ahlin: Kierkegaard’s influence - an ambiguous matter, Hans Erik Johannesson; Victoria Benedictsson: a female perspective on ethics, Camilla Brudin Borg; Lars Gyllensten: inventor of modern stages of life, Camilla Brudin Borg; Selma Lagerlöf: ‘more clever than wise’, Elise Iuul; August Strindberg: along with Kierkegaard in a dance of death, Ingrid Basso; Carl-Henning Wijkmark: paradoxical forms and an interpretation of Kierkegaard and Dacapo, Jan Holmgaard. Part II Norway: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Kierkegaard’s positive influence on Bjørnson in his youth and adulthood, Esben Lindemann; Henrik Ibsen: the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical, Eivind Tjønneland; Edvard Munch: the painter of The Scream and his relation to Kierkegaard, Hans Herlof Grelland; Indexes.

O autorze

Jon Stewart