Now available from Ashgate Publishing… Volume 7, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries – Literature, Drama and Aesthetics

Edited by Jon Stewart, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of ,

The period of Kierkegaard’s life corresponds to Denmark’s “Golden Contents: : Andersen was just an excuse, Age,” which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering Lone Koldtoft; : Kierkegaard and his master’s voice, roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark’s most Henrik Blicher; Steen Steensen Blicher: the melancholy of the important writers, philosophers, theologians, , actors and artists Jutland heath, Sven Hakon Rossel; : leap of faith flourished. Kierkegaard was often in dialogue with his fellow Danes and the ‘noble art of Terpsichore’, Nathaniel Kramer; Mathilde Fibiger: on key issues of the day. Kierkegaard and the emancipation of women, Katalin Nun; Meïr The present volume, divided into 3 tomes features articles that Goldschmidt: the cross-eyed hunchback, Johnny Kondrup; Thomasine employ source-work research in order to explore the individual Gyllembourg: Kierkegaard’s appreciation of the everyday stories and Danish sources of Kierkegaard’s thought. Two Ages, Katalin Nun; Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Kierkegaard’s use of Tome III is dedicated to the diverse Danish sources that fall under Heiberg as a literary critic, George Pattison; : the rubrics “Literature, Drama and Aesthetics.” The Golden Age is an existential actress, Katalin Nun; Carsten Hauch: a map of mutual known as the period when Danish prose first established itself in misreadings, Poul Houe; Johan Nicolai Madvig: the master of Latin in genres such as the novel; moreover, it was also an age when some of Kierkegaard’s Parnassus, Jesper Eckhardt Larsen; Christian Molbech: Denmark’s most celebrated national poets flourished. Accordingly, proverbs and punctuation: the inspiration of a Danish philologist, this tome contains articles on Kierkegaard’s use of the great Danish Kim Ravn; Peter Ludwig Møller: ‘If he had been a somewhat more poets and prose writers, whose works are frequently quoted and significant person…’,K. Brian Söderquist; Adam Oehlenschläger: alluded to throughout his writings. Kierkegaard regularly attended Kierkegaard and the treasure hunter of immediacy, Bjarne Troelsen; dramatic performances at Copenhagen’s Royal Theater, which was Joachim Ludvig Phister: the great comic actor of reflection and one of Europe’s leading playhouses at the time. In this tome his thoughtfulness, William Banks; Christian Winther: Kierkegaard as appreciation for the art of Denmark’s best-known actors and actresses lover and reader, Nathaniel Kramer; Indexes. is traced. Finally, this tome features articles on the leading literary critics and aesthetic theorists of the Golden Age, who served as foils for Kierkegaard’s own ideas.

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