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- Title
From Enthusiasm to Irony: Kierkegaard's Reception of Norse Mythology and Literature.
- Authors
Smith, Troy Wellington
- Abstract
Although the reader of Either/Or is intended to be, at the very least, somewhat ambivalent towards the Kierkegaardian pseudonym A, I argue that this character's enthusiasm for all things Old Norse is shared by the Kierkegaard of this period. Kierkegaard's interest in his region's romantic past, however, would be short-lived. As his authorship progressed from the aesthetic to the religious, he found himself in conflict with another titan of the Danish Golden Age, Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig. Since Grundtvig's work dealt extensively with Norse mythology, Kierkegaard's interest in the Norse cooled as his polemics against Grundtvig caught fire.
- Subjects
NORSE mythology; KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; CHRISTIAN ethics; GRUNDTVIG, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872; OLD Norse literature
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1, p223
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kierke-2018-0011