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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Westfall, Joseph.

Series:

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ; 15.

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series, 1434-2952 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855--Authorship.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855--Anonyms and pseudonyms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study engages in a detailed examination of Kierkegaard's works of literary and dramatic criticism, including those works directed at interpreting Kierkegaard's own authorship, with a specific concern for both what Kierkegaard and Kierkegaard's anonyms and pseudonyms write about the nature and practice of authorship, as well as how the Kierkegaardian authors practice authorship themselves. Moving through five chapters, each devoted to one or more works of Kierkegaard's criticism, the study develops a new approach to reading Kierkegaard - a new Kierkegaardian hermeneutic - that begins always with the character of the author. This new approach avoids the challenges of critics of biographical criticism, such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, by positing the author always as a work of fiction him- or herself, the creation of an unknown and ever anonymous "author of the author".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Dissertation Boston University 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9786612073151

9781282073159

128207315X

9783119161763

3119161764

9783110200973

311020097X

OCLC:

290490889