Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs

Katalin Nun and Jon Stewart are both based in the Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Contents: Gulliver: Kierkegaard’s reading of Swift and Gulliver’s Travels, Frederico Pedreira; Hamlet: the impossibility of tragedy/the tragedy of impossibility, Leonardo F. Lisi; Holger the Dane: Kierkegaard’s mention of one heroic legend, Robert B. Puchniak; Jeppe of the Hill: the hedonistic Christian, Julie K. Allen; Niels Klim: project makers in a world upside down, Elisabete M. de Sousa; King Lear: silence and the leafage of language, Nicholas John Chambers; Loki: romanticism and Kierkegaard’s critique of the aesthetic, Matthew Brake; Lucinde: ‘To live poetically is to live infinitely,’ or Kierkegaard’s concept of irony as portrayed in his analysis of Friedrich Schlegel’s work, Fernando Manuel Ferreira da Silva; Lady Macbeth: the viscera of conscience, Malgorzata Grzegorzewska; Margarete: the feminine face of Faust, Antonella Fimiani; The master-thief: a one-man army against the established order, F. Nassim Bravo Jordan; Mephistopheles: demonic seducer, musician, philosopher, and humorist, Will Williams; Minerva: Kierkegaard’s use of a Greek motif, Anne Louise Nielsen; Münchhausen: charlatan or sublime artist, Anders Rendtorff Klitgaard; Nemesis: from the ancient goddess to a modern concept, Laura Liva; Nero: insatiable sensualist, Sean Anthony Turchin; Papageno: an aesthetic awakening of the ethics of desire, Karen Hiles and Marcia Morgan; Per Degn: towards Kierkegaard’s genealogy of the morals of the servitors of the state church, Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; Prometheus: thief, creator and icon of pain, Markus Pohlmeyer; Richard III: the prototype of the demonic, Nataliya Vorobyova Jørgensen; Robert le Diable: a modern tragic figure, Telmo Rodrigues; Typhon: the monster in Kierkegaard’s mirror, David D. Possen; The wandering Jew: Kierkegaard and the figuration of death in life, Joseph Ballan; Xerxes: Kierkegaard’s king of jest, Ana Pinto Leite; Zerlina: a study on how to overcome anxiety, Sara Ellen Eckerson; Indexes.