The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism (Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series, 15)

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". The Kierkegaardian Author -- Authorship And Performance -- Kierkegaard's Literary And Dramatic Criticism -- Writing H. C. Andersen : From The Papers Of One Still Living -- Livs-anskuelser : Andersen As A Novelist -- Problema I : The Papers Of One Still Living -- Problema Ii : S. Kjerkegaard -- Problema Iii : Published Against His Will -- Livs-anskuelser : From The Papers Of One Still Living And Either/or -- Veronymity And Criticism : To Mr. Orla Lehmann, Public Confession, A Little Explanation, And An Explanation And A Little More -- Anonymity And Veronymity : To Mr. Orla Lehmann -- The Present Age : Public Confession -- Taking Responsibility : A Little Explanation And An Explanation And A Little More -- The Problematic Proximity Of Veronymity -- Opera And Explanation : A First And Last Explanation And A Cursory Observation Concerning A Detail In Don Giovanni -- Being Explaned -- Edited By S. Kierkegaard -- Authorship, Interpretation, Performance -- Performance, May 1845 : Zerlina And Giovanni -- Performance, February 1846 : S. Kierkegaard -- Repetition And Reperformance : A Literary Review -- Two Ages -- A Novel By The Author Of A Story Of Everyday Life -- Reviewed By S. Kierkegaard -- Writing S. Kierkegaard : On My Work As An Author And The Crisis And A Crisis In The Life Of An Actress -- Without Authority -- With The Help Of God -- The Crisis -- A Crisis In The Life Of An Actress Joseph Westfall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [281]-285) And Index.

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Main description: 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